Lifelong Texan who has never been in an HEB? (Houston: home, living in)

[Lakewooder]

I grew up in Dallas and I've never been in one -- I have however, been in the Central Market in my area MANY times (maybe too many time$).

[haggardhouseelf]

Central Market is the same as HEB? Oh. I stand corrected. I did shop at Central Market sometimes when we still lived in Texas... lol

I guess I have been in an HEB and didn't even know it? lol

[urnotfromaroundhereru]

I remember the H-E-B Plus store (178,000 sqft) that opened up in Corpus awhile back. I walked in to get some chap stick and the manager handed me a map of the store. They also had a rest area in middle of the store. San Antonio is opening one up with 182,000 sqft

[doctorjef]

Central Market is the upscale, faux-Whole Foods progeny of HEB. Actually, in Austin I largely preferred Central Market to Whole Foods, although it also helped that there was a Central Market just down the street from the office I occupied the last 6 or 7 years I lived there. I also shopped HEB a lot in Austin, but never did in Lubbock, Fort Worth, or Beaumont -- during the periods I lived in those places I don't believe HEBs were located there. So HEB is fairly new to regions of TX outside of South and Central TX (they started in Corpus Christi, did they not? -- like Whataburger).

[ReppingDFW]

Born in Texas, never been to a HEB. There aren't any of them here in the 'burbs north of Dallas.

[OpenD]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

So HEB is fairly new to regions of TX outside of South and Central TX (they started in Corpus Christi, did they not? -- like Whataburger).

For the answer to that question, read message #5, above.

[shoe01]

Originally Posted by verybadgnome

It's kinda sad that some Texans don't have a local HEB.......food shopping at Wal-Mart is not the same.

Lubbock and Amarillo have United, which is comparable to HEB. There are other grocers as well in those locations.

[Westerner92]

There used to be a gentlemen's agreement that United and HEB wouldn't occupy the same region (I believe the line was I-20), but I think that ended with United opening a store in Abilene, and now the rumor is that HEB has bought land in Lubbock. Growing up there, I had only been in an HEB a handful of times, but now it's a fairly regular thing for me. In general, United has much better presentation in cleanliness and attractiveness of stores, but HEB has a better selection.

[elan]

We don't have HEB in Dallas, I may have dashed into one in Houston or San Antonio while traveling (can't remember). I do remember shopping at United while visitng Lubbock and Amarillo. I didn't know Central Market was connected to HEB, for some reason I prefer the one several miles away instead of the one by my house. I tend to shop mainly at Tom Thumb and Whole Food. No Walmart for me, there isn't one inside the loop.

[RooCeleste]

I was born in Tyler and raised in Van, went to college in Sherman then back to Tyler for graduate school. I then spent 12 years working in Texarkana....Brookshires was THE grocery chain in NE Texas and HEBs were nowhere to be seen. Only when I moved to Victoria for my career (at the age of 36) did I step foot in an HEB! I then fell in love with them! But they just aren't around in NE Texas or the Metroplex, so I had never been in one. (I'd been to Central and South Texas many, many, many times but never had cause to go into a grocery store) So yes, we exist.