Harris Teeter, audited.
3 facilities audited223 dock doors590 trailer spots0 rail-served
We core-sampled 3 of ~3 DCs, Harris Teeter self-distributes from three DCs, and we audited three, so the sample covers its entire distribution network.
Network size: https://www.commerce.nc.gov/news/press-releases/harris-teeter-expand-existing-distribution-center-union-county (NC Dept of Commerce, 2014 (two NC DCs plus a VA relay); third full DC added in Caroline County VA after the 2017 groundbreaking)
Public audit. Not affiliated with Harris Teeter. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited Harris Teeter’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
Harris Teeter’s stack is connected. The yards never were.
Your TMS runs the road. Your WMS runs the building. The yards are the tier between them, and they were never on the network.
Every truck gets re-keyed, re-queued, and re-found at each step. The lost time lives between the steps, which is why no single tool ever fixed it. The audit below is that gap, measured on your real yards.
A real audited site, played gate→dock→exit on the true yard geometry. Switch sites with the picker.
Harris Teeter Grocery Distribution Center Indian Trail NC
Truck queues at the gate. Guard checks paper BOL, runs the plate, types data into a screen, prints a gate pass.
Movement durations are honest floors set by yard geometry; the uplift lands on the wait fields (queue + dispatch + secondary checkpoints). “Today” timings reflect the radios-and-clipboards world; “With YardFlow” reflects the protocol acting end-to-end. We may be wrong about parts of this, your actual numbers will tell us where.
What the handoffs cost across your network, and what removing them is worth
Read from satellite + Street View across all 3 facilities. At a comparable network, Primo Brands cut drop-and-hook turns from ~48 to ~24 min. Set your real volumes and margins in the calculator to put a number on it.
What surprised us reading Harris Teeter’s network
Three patterns held across the sites we sampled. None of them show up on a facility list. All of them change how the yard runs.
- 01
Every Harris Teeter DC sits behind a controlled truck gate, and Indian Trail runs a staffed guard booth. This is a rare grocery network that gates its yards.
- 02
Indian Trail packs both the perishable and dry-grocery DCs onto one fenced campus near Charlotte, sharing a single guarded gate and drop yard.
- 03
All three DCs run truck-only with no rail, inside two NC campuses about 90 miles apart, so the whole network is one short corridor.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with Harris Teeter’s audited yards, set your real volumes and margins, and it sizes the opportunity to the dollar.
This deep-dive is the evidence behind the /for/harris-teeter memo.
Are these your yards?
Tell us where we got it wrong, or see what 15 minutes of orchestration looks like on your worst site.
We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We show you what we found across your yards, you tell us straight where it fits and where it does not. If the call goes well, we talk pilot. If not, you keep the analysis.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@freightroll.com or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake, our founder, joins when it helps.