Bastop knows how to get through tough times. They were the ones who had the horrible wildfires a few years ago.
ping list worthy?
HEB is a behemoth. They drive all competitors out of business, especially the Mom and Pop stores.
Lived in Bastrop as a kid. It has built up some since then.
Makes me wonder how my grandparents ever survived without a major grocery chain near their rural Missouri farm.
What we have there is a “food desert” according to researchers with lots of government cash.
The only thing to fix it is more government cash. More, more, more!
(sigh)
Idiots.
We lived 45-60 minutes to the nearest town for years, and you know what? We lived in the middle of nowhere because we wanted to live there.
We planned for it. Kept staples at home and shopped in bulk when we went in. Always had water and food for at least a few weeks.
One side of my family was dirt poor during the Depression, and they lived on what they grew and traded. They fed themselves in the winter with what they put back.
Can no one do anything for themselves anymore?
Is 20 miles to another HEB really so far away? A two-hour round-trip excursion at most?
What the he11 is this story about?
They have WalMart.
fred cantu should be fred cannot MSM Scum reporter.
Cry me a stinking river; 20 miles to the next grocery. For us here in western North Dakota it is often 40 to fifty miles to any grocery. Deal with it.
Crock of &*(%! Bastrop is an Austin suburb. There’s a Wal Mart right down the road!
How dreadful! The alternate grocery was a whole 20 minutes away? Oh my gosh! How did they survive?
Yea, if it hits the fan most everyone will starve pretty quick. After the Rita evacuation from SE Texas all the way up I-45 it looked like a plague of locusts had passed through. There was nothing on the shelves anywhere. Stop the trucks, see what happens. In less than a week the shelves will be bare.
BG...go to google maps. There is a Walmart across the street. The sign says it’s a Food Center, too.
This story is made up.
“I mean you’re going to have to drive 20 miles to another HEB.”
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May be but there are other stores for use in an emergency along with a Super Walmart
within 1/4 mile of that HEB. Now HEB may carry more ‘organic, etc’ type foods
but a person can survive for the five days HEB was out of commission.
This story is for the benefit of Moochelles food gestapo. There are other grocery stores in Bastrop. How do I know, I have visited many times. I looked at buildings at the airport park to set up shop.
A lot of rural folks I know grow their own: they have large gardens and raise livestock.
HEB has been known for their excellent managers of individual stores. Marcy Martin was one.
**Bastrop HEB Closing Highlights Hunger Issue**
When our HEB grocery store closed for a week, we were forced to survive solely on the food available at the larger grocery store across the street.
“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.” - W. C. Fields