Posted on 11/08/2014 6:11:36 AM PST by bgill
The local HEB (grocery store) in Bastrop is back in business after spending the better part of a week cleaning up after a fire. In that time it revealed how few resources there are in rural areas for people looking for healthy groceries... "I mean you're going to have to drive 20 miles to another HEB."
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What the he11 is this story about?
And the Super Walmart is only a couple hundred yards from the H-E-B. I'm with you. What the hell is this story about?
“What the he11 is this story about?’
‘Healthy’ groceries. Walmart is evil and sells unhealthy food/s
OMG. you have to drive 20 miles to get ‘healthy’ groceries.
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!
Indeed. I was asking myself why they would starve if they have a new Wal-Mart (with a supermarket IIRC) right there on Hwy 71.
Years and years ago, back when local tv stations were adding live remote trucks and couldn’t wait to show us anything that could be covered with a live remote, a small minority area north of Houston was having their gas service turned off (because every home in town owed the gas company money from unpaid bills) so the local tv crew had a live remote to show the horror and racism of cutting off a town’s gas service.
So the news crew shows up at the stereotypical black house in poverty with chipping paint and roaches flourishing and the reporterette wailed at how unfair it was that this house no longer had gas.
She turned to the woman of the house and asked emotionally on live tv, “What WILL you do now that you no longer have gas to cook with?”
“D’ass okeh!,” said the lady of the house. “I jess cooks wiff my new microwave oven.”
End of interview.
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.
When my kids were growing there were no stores anywhere close to us and we only shopped once a month on payday. The Manor Man came once a week though and we always bought eggs, milk, butter, sliced white bread and the best ever cinnamon rolls from him.
It’s LIBERAL Austin news! Was for the Austin liberals to open their ‘cry me a river’ pocketbooks for Bastrop Lone Star Card holders. Many in Bastrop drive to Austin to work daily.
HEB is a great store and friends from Calif. shop there when here as it has great foods in every dept. This HEB is one that we also travel to when we need a larger selection than the local HEB in LaGrange. That HEB is one that also serves Smithville and they have to drive about 15 miles down the road so FRED where are you with that ‘news’???
“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.
“when you’re a kid”<PHey, I’m turning 65 this month, and I laughed.
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.
HEB Grocery Company, LP (stylized as H-E-B), also known as H-E-B Grocery Stores, is a privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 350 stores throughout the U.S. state of Texas, as well as in northern Mexico. The company also operates Central Market, an upscale organic and fine foods retailer.
As of 2012, the company has a total revenue surpassing $18 billion USD (2012). H-E-B ranked No. 12 on Forbes’ 2012 list of “America’s Largest Private Companies.” H-E-B was named Retailer of the Year in 2010 by Progressive Grocer. Supermarket News ranked H-E-B No. 13 in the 2008 “Top 75 North American Food Retailers.” Based on 2010 revenues, H-E-B is the twenty-fifth largest retailer in the United States.
It donates 5 percent of pre-tax profits to charity. It has been labeled a religious company; until 1976 it was closed on Sundays and did not sell alcohol.
To give my granddaddy something to do, he bought a bunch of turkeys, put them in a pen to be fed by my granddad (and me).
At Thanksgiving and Christmas, he had them cleaned and sold them in the grocery store.
I often think about how much better those turkeys were than the ones sold in stores today...from running around on the ground one day ... on the table the next. Gov't red tape would prevent it today...and those turkeys were so much healthier for people... weren't injected with any growth hormons, etc.
He did the same thing with hogs...would buy them at auction, butcher them and sold them. Produce was produced by local farmers.
Things were cheaper and everybody made a profit because every thing went through fewer hands from farm to market.
I read once, true or not I have no clue, that it cost more to produce the box that cereal comes in than to grow it.
Over the years things grew and the store grew. Before he passed on, I remember hearing him say that his electric bill at the store one month was over $23,000. That was in the '80s.
A lot of rural folks I know grow their own: they have large gardens and raise livestock.
Because he is MainScumMedia, “fred cannot” has been at that station for decades. He is whiny Mexican.
HEB has been known for their excellent managers of individual stores. Marcy Martin was one.
20 miles might be far to city folk, but is Bastrop a city, with limited ‘city folk’ thinking?
I’m under the impression it’s a small town, comprised of ‘can do’ people.
**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
Old timers in Bastrop hate the new construction and the sissified yuppies that infest the town, turning it into a bedroom community.
I remember when one family outside our town, drove into town every two weeks for shopping. Filled a station wagon with food for 6 folks for almost $100. Never saw such money.
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