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pianoboypinoyJR · 11-09-2009, 07:56 AM

I heard (from the Express-News and SA Business Journal, among others) that there indeed is an HEB Plus planned for the former Westlakes Mall. I'm assuming it'll be similar to what they did with the former McCreless Mall.

skeet09 · 11-09-2009, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by pianoboypinoyJR

I heard (from the Express-News and SA Business Journal, among others) that there indeed is an HEB Plus planned for the former Westlakes Mall. I'm assuming it'll be similar to what they did with the former McCreless Mall.

Can you send me link to that article? I would be interested in reading about it.

SnappyBob · 11-09-2009, 08:22 AM

I guess SS means Southside? There are two southside Plus stores, one on Zarzamora and one at the old McCrellis mall.

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Originally Posted by pianoboypinoyJR

I heard (from the Express-News and SA Business Journal, among others) that there indeed is an HEB Plus planned for the former Westlakes Mall. I'm assuming it'll be similar to what they did with the former McCrellis Mall.

I hope they don't make it too simular to the one at McCrellis Mall. On the southside we refer to that as being Southsided. HEB planners obviously asssumed everyone in that area is so poor that we can't afford to shop at a REAL Plus store so they just built an abbreviated version. I went to the grand opening and was very disappointed. I went into that store one other time to pick up a few grocery items. After wandering around and not being able to find any of the items I needed I left without buying anything. I haven't been back. I know people who live right across the freeway from the McCrellis Plus store and they shop at the one at Military and Goliad. It's a much better store. They have a Sushi bar there also. I hope the people living around the Westlakes area don't get Westsided.

skeet09 · 11-09-2009, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by SnappyBob

I guess SS means Southside? There are two southside Plus stores, one on Zarzamora and one at the old McCrellis mall.

I hope they don't make it too simular to the one at McCrellis Mall. On the southside we refer to that as being Southsided. HEB planners obviously asssumed everyone in that area is so poor that we can't afford to shop at a REAL Plus store so they just built an abbreviated version. I went to the grand opening and was very disappointed. I went into that store one other time to pick up a few grocery items. After wandering around and not being able to find any of the items I needed I left without buying anything. I haven't been back. I know people who live right across the freeway from the McCrellis Plus store and they shop at the one at Military and Goliad. It's a much better store. They have a Sushi bar there also. I hope the people living around the Westlakes area don't get Westsided.

Some folks refer to the one on Military/Zarzamora the Southside one and the one near McCreless the Southeast one. The Southside one has a sushi bar and a snack stand(?, not sure what it's called they have aguas frescas, snacks). The Southside one is pretty decent, it's got nice wide aisles that they changed a few months into its opening. There was a coffee/book area but it got removed because of low traffic.

naxxan · 11-09-2009, 09:07 AM

I cant stand the mccreless location. I live spitting distance from it and refuse to shop there. I have to pass it to go to the goliad location where they have everything i want (w/o being a plus). I have multiple horror stories of mccreless and find myself insulted by what the buyers thought the neighborhood would want to buy. No one really likes it but since they closed two stores to make it and killed off azteca market along with it people in the area with limited transportation are forced to shop there. Bad move on HEBs part.

SnappyBob · 11-09-2009, 09:13 AM

When I went to the Zarzamora opening they gave us two free beer tickets so you could enjoy a cold beer as you walked around checking out the store. This is because they had a little diner type area where you could have (I think) two beers maximum while you waited for whoever you came with to finish shopping. I heard that they have since quit serving beer in the diner area.

skeet09 · 11-09-2009, 09:17 AM

Can you inform me, naxxan and Snappybob about the negatives on the McCreless location? I haven't been to that one, only the Military/Zarzamora one.

naxxan · 11-09-2009, 03:01 PM

skeet,
for being called a plus store there is no selection. retail space is a premium in any store and especially in a store as small as mccreless, so to fill an entire 12 ft section with devotional candles is overkill. Ive been told that they would not carry beets because they would lose money on them. I have also been told the store doesnt rotate the organic milk properly because no one buys it anyway. Its more a negative attitude really than anything else but if i go for more than one very basic item i leave without something and have to go elsewhere. i digress...

skeet09 · 11-09-2009, 03:10 PM

I would be upset too! I buy organic milk myself and that's depressing. I feel for ya.

perticusrex · 11-09-2009, 03:12 PM

Valley hi HEB (which considers itself a "commodity store") didnt stock organic milk over a year ago, when I moved to the area. I probably filled out a dozen concern/complaint cards and bugged two different managers about it - not saying it was necessarily because of me because I ran into two other ladies who had the same complaint and one also complained that they didnt sell flaxseed (which they do now) but eventually they started stocking it .....and people are actually buying it. (Now if only they would offer it by the gallon.)

I really think HEB sometimes doesnt know their customer and even underestimates their spending habits.