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Old 12-12-2010, 10:45 PM
 
Location: The ATL
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"They wouldn't move that (at least now) because it is a great store."


Of course they wouldn't move that store because it IS the relocated store from where the Ashley furniture is now!

And by applying your logic I guess we can all forget about the homeless living downtown, the violence on the border, and hungry kids starving all over the world. They're not in our neighborhood so why should we care?

Where is your sense of community?
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Old 12-12-2010, 11:34 PM
 
Location: The ATL
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The bottom line is about money. HEB is trying to compete with Walmart and Target. If they wanted to give their customers wider aisles and clean bug free coolers then they would have renovated/rebuilt a long time ago.
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Old 12-13-2010, 12:36 AM
 
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it's not my neighborhood. It doesn't too much affect me. It irks me when people get upset about companies changing things in other people's neighborhoods when they preference things with "Well..I've never been there but this is what I think is in your best interest because this happened on my side of town..." What was best for you might not be best for us.
I wish others cared more about what happens in my neighborhood and other neighborhoods too. Maybe then West Texas would not soon become a nuclear waste dumping ground. While it will benefit Waste Control Specialists' corporate bottom line there is not much to celebrate in the fact that our state will soon be open for business to the rest of the country so they can leave their radioactive waste in our charge which will affect us for generations long after WCS is out of business.

If other cared maybe then they would not soon be tearing down more trees at the corner of S New Braunfels and Military Drive just to build more apartments and shopping developments. I think anyone who knows this area will agree we already have enough housing and shopping strips especially with all the newer developments that have already taken place.

I used to play as a child in the woods across from what was Brooks AFB. I remember the jack rabbits and the trees. It's all gone. Many of the newcomers could care less because we now have a Peter Piper Pizza and a Target there among other things including a newer H-E-B. I remember the older H-E-B across the street on Goliad near Military.

My stepfather used to play and explore McCreless when it was just a field. He attended Connell Middle School, before it was renamed to that, when Mr. Connell was still the principal. Now McCreless is a huge H-E-B among other things.

I still remember when that H-E-B was just south of McCreless, off of Fair Ave., and the mall was still there. There was a Pistol Petes next to that H-E-B and a Peter Piper down the block off of Fair and 37.

Heck I remember when that H-E-B was a Piggly Wiggly and H-E-B was still on Goliad and Fair which is now an Advanced Auto Parts. Or even further back when H-E-B was originally across the street from that one.

That is a total of four H-E-B relocations just for it to end up at McCreless! Enough already, I hope they are done now. I also hope others from other neigborhoods do care and make it their business.

It is ridiculous that I can travel less than ten minutes in either direction to arrive at two different and modern H-E-Bs, two Walmarts, a Target, and at least five different auto parts stores when they could have just remodeled and made maximum use of their existing spaces.

All these new people moving in, not just here but all over the city, might not even understand or care. Now while I won't frown on anyone who occupies themselves with other issues or even trivialities, that is their right, a line must be drawn when others mindlessly celebrate the newest H-E-B or Walmart, because it is a plus or super, when there is a perfectly good building they abandoned just so another company can abandon theirs to move into that one.

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As if San Antonio truly needs another pizza place, taqueria, privatized medical clinic, or simply more shelf space so we can truck in more products from China or God knows where else!

All these extra trucks alone wreak havoc on our environment and make our streets fall apart that much quicker. But no, it is obvious none of that affects me so I should just be quiet as the sprawl continues, crimes rises in your subdivision, you can camp out on your front porch with AKs and AR-15s in case the newspaper delivery person returns, or you can then move further out if you are able to sell your existing home, and then celebrate when they open up a Jack in the Box so you can eat your way to a slow death. <s>

BTW crime is down in my neighborhood, people still die violent deaths to be sure, but it is all these new apartments, houses, and shopping developments that are more disturbing. The house I live in has had many upgrades and remodeling so there is no need to move out of the area I was born into. The neighborhood got worse and then it got a bit better. That is the way of the world.

So please stay out of this state, this city, this side of town, and go retire in the Northside, Hawaii, Germany, or wherever you grew up at because as far as I am conerned more than half of the people in town are foreigners (aka non native South Texans) who don't belong here.

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Old 12-13-2010, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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"They wouldn't move that (at least now) because it is a great store."


Of course they wouldn't move that store because it IS the relocated store from where the Ashley furniture is now!

And by applying your logic I guess we can all forget about the homeless living downtown, the violence on the border, and hungry kids starving all over the world. They're not in our neighborhood so why should we care?

Where is your sense of community?

Now, now. Don't take this out of context. I was talking about economic issues not social issues. I'll go anywhere to help starving kids, homeless people and support the DREAM Act. Social issues and economic issues are two different things. It's like when people from Washington DC say "Hey...this is the best thing for this little place in San Antonio..." when they've never been there. That was my point. How do they know? They've never been there.
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Old 12-13-2010, 01:44 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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The Bandera and 1604 store isn't too bad. Are you talking about the one near the library?
Yup, the one near the library.
We live pretty much in the middle of Bandera between 410 and 1604 so don't make it out to the bigger HEBs on either end very often, and I hate going to ginormous Walmart just for groceries.
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Old 12-13-2010, 03:05 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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The HEB that was on the corner of Marbach and Horal is being demolished. HEB Plus is now where Westlakes Mall used to be.
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Old 03-06-2011, 09:50 AM
 
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Default The Babcock HEB

Hurrah - it opens - but it's a strange store

It is an improvement over the crappy one on that corner (Huebner and Babock).

It looks like a Plus but it's not. It's just a big HEB.

There's no take out (or did I miss that). It would seem that the Medical area could use some, like Blanco and 1604 and Alon have.

The Natural section seems truncated in selection as compared to DeZavala or Blanco - nuts but supplements, makeup goo, is smaller.

A crappy, upscale cheese selection - my hobby - Alon is pretty good.

Very limited - periodicals.

There's a row of empty strip mall locations for the cleaners, hairdos, liquor, pizza, etc.

I think (and I'm not a marketing genius), they could have used the space for some more stuff - not tires and bikes or electronics but more foodie.

Of course, the demographics might be off. With no offense, the population there seemed more interested in piles of starch things to add to their girth. But they were pushing wine samples.

So I'm somewhat confused to the stores strategic mission - it's mixed?
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Old 03-06-2011, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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We went on Friday afternoon just to check it out. I might try my next week's shopping there just to see before i head back to the De Zavala HEB. I have a lot of the same concerns. I was stoked to see some new stuff.

I don't understand how being only 1-2 miles away can change the marketing demographics that much, but I haven't taken a marketing class in my life.

But, to be fair, the Blanco HEB Plus does also have the little strip center attached to it with cleaners and some other things as well.

I'm glad there is gas there. It always seems (even after the newness wears off) that HEB gas is usually 2-3 cents cheaper than other gas stations near it.
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Old 03-06-2011, 01:58 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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They have baby back ribs for 1.97 a pound!!
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Old 03-07-2011, 07:33 AM
 
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Went to the new HEB on babcock & huebner friday evening. It is a lot bigger, but does not have everything that the other store had - it has quite a few new things though. I thought maybe the price of roma tomatos would have stabilized by now - they were still $1.98 a pound (at least better than $2.98/lb from last week). The same tomatos are $0.60/lb at the HEB on Fred Rd and others!! I do not understand how HEB has the audacity to launch a marketing campaign that dares people to compare prices from other competitors. I do not have to bother doing that! The prices within HEBs themselves are way off! With these type of practices (huge price differences within stores a few miles apart) I am seriously considering shopping elsewhere other than HEB for groceries!
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