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TOUR: Harris Teeter - West Ocean View, Norfolk, VA

Harris Teeter Opened: 2019 Previous Tenants:  Farm Fresh (closed 2018) Location:  179 W Ocean View Ave, Norfolk, VA Photographed:  December 2019 We are visiting Norfolk moving roughly north to south, and so we begin with what I believe to be the farthest-north supermarket in the city. This store is in the West Ocean View neighborhood, all the way up near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (although slightly inland from that). This was also the first store I visited, as the house we rented when staying in this area was in this neighborhood and we didn't have the time or energy to explore other supermarkets the first night here. I got some surprises with this Harris Teeter, which due to its small size of only about 26,000 square feet, I assumed to be a much older Harris Teeter. Turns out that my knowledge of Norfolk supermarkets was terrible and this was a Farm Fresh until 2018, when that chain went under (mostly; I believe there are two stores that still use the Farm Fresh ...