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How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by viccis »

doodlebugging wrote: post #45
viccis wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Houston they also sell boiled crawfish by the pound during crawfish season so you can have a big crawfish dinner with you and your friends without the whole process of making them yourself. The catch is that, like the crawfish, their BBQ is pretty mid. So if you want great BBQ, you gotta drive a mile or two to a real BBQ place. But if you want some brisket before you do your grocery shopping, it hits the spot.

I'm not gonna argue the quality of HEB BBQ since it obviously stands on its own merits among Texas shoppers. The meat that I smoke at home is better than any that I have bought at a BBQ joint or stand in the country outside of this one stand in Greenville, Mississippi. While working there, I made sure that I stocked up on meats every day. That man had it down. I've been eating BBQ since I was a small child and I'm on…

Bear in mind that Blue Bell, a company that knowingly killed people with listeria, "stands on its own merits" among Texas shoppers.

Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by userbinator »

userbinator wrote: post #98
1659447091 wrote: post #55

There are lots feel-good things to say about how HEB runs its business and what it does for the communities and local areas they are in. Not to mention their "generic" store branded foods are usually healthier and made with simple ingredients. And locally sourced. But this story[0] is the one that I think sums up the love people have for HEB pretty well. During the 2021 "Great Texas Freeze" [1] (where 4+million homes…

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Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by cwillu »

Taniwha wrote: post #88
steve-atx-7600 wrote: post #26

As soon as Covid was viewed as a serious threat in the US, they immediately put up plexiglass barriers to protect their cashiers. Immediately and not just half assed barriers. They did as good of a job as I would have done if I were the cashier. Then they transformed their stores to have more warehouse space and ran a free curbside pickup service. All of this and they are still the best grocery store in TX if you car…

Viruses do not "fester" on flat surfaces, if they fester in anything it is cells

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by [deleted] »

gamblor956 wrote: post #66
RhysU wrote: post #22

I want someone to start a monthly subscription service that mails HEB tortillas within the continental US using UT Austin students as the smurfs. The ad copy writes itself.

HEB tortillas are good for a store brand but you can get better tortillas at any half decent Mexican mom and pop store in SoCal.

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Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by jollymonATX »

cityofdelusion wrote: post #46

HEB operates a similar model to Costco in being more expensive to the customer in a subtle way, through desirability. Their products are so interesting and appetizing that I go in with the intention of buying $30 of groceries and leave with a $100 load. Many of these products end up as local memes (tortillas, brisket queso, green sauce) they are so desirable. Wal-Mart is the opposite. I go in to buy groceries and am…

Yes I hear people talking about great deals at HEB often and you are correct. They are more expensive. You simply cannot reason with cultists however.

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Post by ahartmetz »

jubilanti wrote: post #96
collabs wrote: post #59

I lived closer to WinCo in DFW area and could walk to a grocery store to buy bread or some random grocery item. It was really nice. I don't think Europeans will ever understand how much of a flex it is to be able to walk to a grocery store in Texas.

I don't think you realize how boringly normal it is in Europe for people to never have a car and take public transit to the hypermarket, the same Cathedral of Consumerist Capitalism with a combined supermarket, shopping mall, movie theater, often a stadium for concerts and sports... And you can go with a granny hand cart multiple times a week because it's just a few stops on public transit, where it is also often a h…

I've lived in three different places in Berlin and never took public transit for grocery shopping. It would be pointless because the shops are in walking distance, just a few hundred meters away. Hypermarkets (which are rare, though I guess you could call Kaufland a mini-hypermarket) or more specialized stores are for less daily needs.

Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by nerdsniper »

steve-atx-7600 wrote: post #26

As soon as Covid was viewed as a serious threat in the US, they immediately put up plexiglass barriers to protect their cashiers. Immediately and not just half assed barriers. They did as good of a job as I would have done if I were the cashier. Then they transformed their stores to have more warehouse space and ran a free curbside pickup service. All of this and they are still the best grocery store in TX if you car…

Before they put up plexiglass they announced that they would fire any staff members who wore a mask to work. Later they mandated masks.

Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by arcticfox »

nerdsniper wrote: post #108
steve-atx-7600 wrote: post #26

As soon as Covid was viewed as a serious threat in the US, they immediately put up plexiglass barriers to protect their cashiers. Immediately and not just half assed barriers. They did as good of a job as I would have done if I were the cashier. Then they transformed their stores to have more warehouse space and ran a free curbside pickup service. All of this and they are still the best grocery store in TX if you car…

Before they put up plexiglass they announced that they would fire any staff members who wore a mask to work. Later they mandated masks.

Tbf, I recall the official guidance being a complete mess for a period. I recall feeling satisfied at not wearing a mask to comply with official guidance for a (short) period. Then the guidance changed.

Re: How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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Post by tancop »

rottencupcakes wrote: post #10
99954bb63ccc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. And they don't charge much of a premium to deliver this. I can buy things at HEB and not worry about them being expired/etc, even for grocery pickup. Kroger, afaict, _chooses_ the expiring/broken stuff if you do grocery pickup. Kroger is closer to me so I've given it several chances, but every time they seem to get me in a new way to get me with opened, expired, or damaged stuff, and I won't be bothered to estab…

It’s interesting that the private supermarkets (TJs, HEB) seem to both follow this happy and overstaffed model, and the public ones (Kroger, Albertsons/Safeway) do the opposite. Albertson’s adds insult to injury by overcharging for everything. Tomato? $4.99/lb please.

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