Harris Teeter is ditching traditional checkout lanes and transitioning to self-checkout only at its uptown location on West Sixth Street.
The grocer’s uptown store is 18,000 square feet, less than half the size of a traditional Harris Teeter. When the store gets busy, it’s often with urban residents or uptown professionals making small transactions. Moving to completely self check-out is a way Harris Teeter is looking to eliminate long lines at its registers, the grocer said.
The average transaction in the grocer’s uptown store is “significantly smaller than our traditional stores,” spokeswoman Danna Robinson said. The store is not eliminating any jobs by moving to self-checkout only, Robinson said.
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