When an H-E-B employee found out that I had never even heard of Big Red, despite growing up less than miles away from its birthplace, they immediately filled a large cup with the frighteningly red soda, and made me try it with the barbacoa taco — the combo was at first cloying, then pleasantly salty. I probably could have done without the Big Red. But my family has long been devoted to Central Market, where we could buy whole spices, ghee, masoor dal red lentils , and whole-wheat tortillas, which are still the closest approximation my mom has found to roti in any mainstream grocery store.
Central Market also introduced my family to English double cream, arborio rice, and miso, broadening our palates with tastes from other cuisines.
But H-E-B just wants to dig into its native soil even harder: Shortly after Amazon acquired Austin-based Whole Foods, H-E-B announced the creation of a tech and innovation lab in Austin, which will house its latest acquisition, a Texas-based delivery app called Favor.
The strategy seems to be working. I think H-E-B has earned the monopoly. You love Texas, and so do we. The stores represent Texans as they see themselves. There is no attempt to construct a monolithic image of Texas — or even to help people outside of Texas understand Texas.
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Butt Cash Grocery and diversified his store by adding a meat market. Despite a lack of success at early attempts to expand into Central Texas, Butt was able to establish a successful enterprise at Del Rio in , followed in by the purchase of three grocery stores in the lower Rio Grande valley.
The company also organized a buying department and construction division. It began advertising with free gifts-dispensed in one case by throwing tagged live chickens, good for free groceries, and handfuls of nickels off a store roof-and later gave away cars, mink stoles, trading stamps, and cash prizes. In the mids, Butt again changed the name of his enterprise-this time to H. Butt Grocery Company. Under this name, he moved into manufacturing by acquiring the Harlingen Canning Company and opening a bakery in Corpus Christi in In company headquarters moved from the Valley to Corpus Christi to centralize distribution to its growing territory.
In , the year Butt installed air-conditioning in stores and introduced frozen foods, he also opened the first store under the name H-E-B, in San Antonio. Women served as store managers, and H-E-B became known for its interest in personnel development.
A store that opened in Austin in became the fiftieth H-E-B.
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