SA to get Two New Central Markets.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I thought mexicans were the ones selling produce...not buying it, wtf are you thinking?!

The HEBs I shop at (DeZavala, Huebner/NW Military, and Wurzbach/I-10) all have good selections, except maybe not so much the Huebner store because of it's small size, though they do have a Kosher section if you're into that.

I've been to the Plus store numerous times since it's close to my work and though I haven't really bought hardcore groceries there, it seems to be a great place to shop. It's big enough so that it doesn't seem so crowded all the time, like normal HEBs do (at least to me). That's what really bugs me when I go grocery shopping, all the damn people! People just leaving their baskets in the middle of an already small aisle, or people taking 40 items to the express lane and then writing a check, annoying stuff.

Now here's a question along those last lines.

I know people that justify going into the express lanes if it's multiple items of the same thing (IE: dog food, etc.).

To me, if it has to possibly be scanned to count, it's an item.

[Pop OFits]

The HEB on DeZavala and 10 will be converted into a Central Market within the next few months. Also, the HEB at Blanco and 1604 will be converted into a new concept store that features Central Market. Construction on that store will last 8 months.

Is there a link or is this a rumor? Where did you get this info? You don't have to name names, just a general idea where.

[Ginofan]

Now here's a question along those last lines.

I know people that justify going into the express lanes if it's multiple items of the same thing (IE: dog food, etc.).

To me, if it has to possibly be scanned to count, it's an item.

Dog food i can see, but only if it's the bagged kind that's so huge you can't put it on the conveyer thingie, maybe packs of sodas too or water, but chucking 50 cans of baby food, produce, bread or whatever in the express lane is stupid and discourteous to 12 other people behind you with their one or two items.

[samikeyp]

Mandy,

Do you ever go to the "Baby B" over across from Michaels?

[Pop OFits]

The HEB on DeZavala and 10 will be converted into a Central Market within the next few months. Also, the HEB at Blanco and 1604 will be converted into a new concept store that features Central Market. Construction on that store will last 8 months.

Is there a link or is this a rumor? Where did you get this info? You don't have to name names, just a general idea where.

BUMP FOR BUDDY HOLLY

[Ginofan]

Mandy,

Do you ever go to the "Baby B" over across from Michaels?

Sometimes I do. We have dinner at a restraunt right there every Friday so if I need something I'll usually stop in there. Plus, my brother works at that one in the summers, he likes having only 6 registers, it's dead all the time

[MannyIsGod]

People that write checks in the express lane deserve to die.

[Mark in Austin]

The best HEB concept I've ever seen is one that only has two locations I am aware of: The Woodlands Market at the lifestyle center behind the Woodlands Mall and one the just opened up in SW Austin at Slaughter & Escarpment. It's basically a cross between a Central Market and a high end regular HEB like the one on Blanco & 1604. Sounds like they are moving the Blanco & 1604 store closer to this hybrid format.

All the growth right now in the grocery industry is in prepared foods (like the rotesserie chickens, etc.) so it doesn't surprise me that HEB is experimenting with ways of adding more of this to their stores.

[Buddy Holly]

It's an entirely new concept.

[leemajors]

The best HEB concept I've ever seen is one that only has two locations I am aware of: The Woodlands Market at the lifestyle center behind the Woodlands Mall and one the just opened up in SW Austin at Slaughter & Escarpment. It's basically a cross between a Central Market and a high end regular HEB like the one on Blanco & 1604. Sounds like they are moving the Blanco & 1604 store closer to this hybrid format.

All the growth right now in the grocery industry is in prepared foods (like the rotesserie chickens, etc.) so it doesn't surprise me that HEB is experimenting with ways of adding more of this to their stores.

is it like the one on red river and 40th or so?

[leemajors]

It's an entirely new concept.

sounds really new... to san antonio.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantoni...9/daily23.html