Posted on 05/28/2019 4:45:43 PM PDT by bgill
However the location has finally grown as much as it can. The new store, scheduled to open in 2022, will be 100,000 square feet, and include underground parking and H-E-B’s first-ever beer garden.
The company says they are already putting detailed plans in place to "ensure the neighborhood will still have the best shopping experience possible" and will open a temporary store located at the adjacent Twin Oaks Shopping Center to serve customers through construction.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...
Austin gets a ginormous store but our little HEB's bread delivery is always on the next truck and if you have two milks in the cart, someone will beg you to give them one because there's no milk, either.
When I was in college thirty years ago this was the store I went to. That area of Austin had a lot of rough patches. The whole thing is pretty much gentrified now, I can see why they are doing this.
I think there may be a huge Whole Foods in the area.
HEB used to be the “smaller brother” of the more numerous Handy Andy and Piggly Wiggly food stores in San Antonio.
Gotta be, or half of Auston would get the vapors
I wouldn’t shop there, especially at night. Not with a pool hall. It’s not safe.
I’m still not crazy about HEB-the local SuperS is closer and has organic local produce and grass fed free range meat-so I shop there.
There weren’t any chain grocery stores out in W Texas ranch country where I grew up, but when I was in college in SA, the Piggly Wiggly a few blocks from my apartment was the closest grocery store-I really liked their meat department-they sold the end cuts-and ground beef-in bulk really cheap, and there was always a special on hamburger helper, canned tuna, Spam, mac and cheese, etc-probably because there were so many students living nearby...
When my 1st hubby and I bought our 1st house, the closest store was an HEB, but we drove to the Handy Andy on West Ave to shop for groceries because their produce was better and fresher, and they had a good meat department where you could get something custom cut if you didn’t want what was already packaged-and it didn’t cost any more-they always had frog legs and fresh oysters in the shell too...
Underground parking is a red flag to move away.
I can’t stand HEB. You can’t throw a rock in San Antonio without hitting one. Super packed with herds and herds of people, overkill on stimuli, a veritable Monopoly. Give me Aldi’s all day long.
I drive 4 towns over to buy produce at Walmart. The stuff HEB here gets looks like seconds that no other store would accept.
They only stock half of what’s in the weekly ads. For some strange reason, they’ll pull a product that has a national coupon. Many times, it’s welcome to Venezuela with half empty shelves. It never fails, I have to ask someone in the back to look for an item and I never find half the grocery list. No, I do not put anything but the bare basics on the list because 1) I know it would be useless and 2) I’m on a tight budget.
They have admitted the shelf bread comes in frozen so that’s why the loafs aren’t soft.
I’ve told many times about the having to do what amounts to drug deals by calling and calling and finally being told to meet the guy at the back door at a certain time to get something. Then getting to the check out and the cashier and bagger shocked because they didn’t know they had the whatever.
They haven’t sold fresh cauliflower in years. Same with pork ‘n beans. Corn tortillas will be in “on the next truck” but they’ll only be getting one package of 8. Yep, one single package, not a pallet or case. The entire meat department could fit on two of the desks I’m typing at so cuts are limited and there may only be a couple packages of what you want.
And you have to check the receipt because they’re bad about over charging. Last time, I was over charged $24. Yes, I made them correct it but how many people don’t realize they’re being ripped off? Sending emails to their HQ is a waste of time.
A pool hall in a Supermarket? What will be next? A gentlemen’s club?
I still go to this one for some stuff, paper goods and such are cheaper than wal mart or Costco and they have a lot of variety...pretry much the monthly stock up trip with a run to central marlet or whole foods 2x for fresh stuff and good meat
I’m surprised about the HEB complaints...never had a bad experience with any of them and the company is run by good people
Serious? I’m not going to bash Walmart as a retail entity, but their produce and house brands are not even close to HEB. As a central Texan, I don’t know anyone who would disagree. Are you some Walmart exec who lives in Delaware? Reply, if you get the Ray Wylie Hubbard reference. For those who do, “... ... we’re from Texas”
Nicely done
And correct
You are describing a lot of the HEB stores in small towns, and the reason that the town of Bandera and the county decided about 10 years ago to say no to HEB building a store there.
One look at the way they cut down all the trees and turn their part of a small town area into a clone of their stores in the city was enough-especially with the tales and photos of the poorly stocked stores in those towns. This is a tourist area for mostly people who want to stay at guest ranches and rustic cabins in the woods, ride horses, eat at farm-to-table places in the boonies, shop for country antiques and Native American stuff, etc-big city type stores don’t fit the image anyway...
I wish that HEB would just stay out of small towns-leave them to Walmart-they know how to run a store in a rural area-after all, it is where they first started...
Even the HEB in Boerne, 25 miles away is just barely acceptable in spite of being so near SA-their produce selection is crap, and mostly not fresh-the last time I got strawberries there, I swear they were going squashy by the time I got home and unloaded my truck.
The HEB in Kerrville is a little better about stocking staple items, but don’t even think of asking at the meat counter for a cut of meat if there is none already wrapped and on display-the choice of cuts is really limited, and they are almost always out of any cut of meat advertised in the weekly ads that come in the mail-the produce problem is the same, and the selection of fresh fish sucks-if I happen to be in Boerne or Kerrville, I’ll shop at the Walmart, which at least has fresher produce-better selection, too...
I work hard for what little I have-and I do insist on eating organic, non-GMO and free range-always have-the local SuperS and the Kerrville Walmart both have better priced, fresher Organic produce and free range meat.
The only time I ever go inside an HEB is when my guy insists I go shopping with him in SA-he doesn’t do it often, because I pick through everything in the produce aisle, point out the lack of freshness, bitch about the price of the grass fed beef, etc-he lives in a ladeda gated enclave, and even that HEB has poor quality produce compared to Walmart-and the supposedly organic produce is on the edge of bad, too-for twice the price-I just watch him buy his groceries-I never buy any food for my home there...
No offense intended-but bgill and I were describing the HEB stores we are familiar with in rural areas-and they do put all the good stuff in the stores in higher dollar, more densely populated areas-like cities-that is their marketing strategy. Walmart started as a store in small rural communities-I remember when everyone got all excited when a Walmart was being opened in the nearest town-that was their marketing strategy-and when it comes to grocery shopping in small towns, in my opinion, Walmart still wipes the floor with HEB-especially when it comes to selection, freshness and price of produce. If y’all live in a city, I’m sure HEB outdoes Walmart-but that is not the case here in BFE...
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