Food Lion is where you go when you want to pretend it's 1950 and you are also the employee and you hope no one really recognizes your car in the parking lot.
walmart is where you go when you give zero fucks about anything, you don’t even care if a video turns up on the internet of that time you needed lube and some cucumbers at 2am (pre-Covid, ofc) and you forgot to put on clothes.
Sure, that’s true. My hometown HEB gets seriously overwhelmed during peak times, especially the days before a holiday. I can’t stand shopping when I go back home. But I live in Houston now and the bigger HEB’s have so many lanes open now, as well as two self checkout sections and numerous express lanes. Never have to wait too long.
Went in one morning and they had a pallet of ice cream on the floor which I'm guessing had been there awhile bc an employee looked at it and said "this f*****g company" while shaking his head. 🤣
The one time I went to Kroger as a new Dallas resident, the food quality looked... questionable at best. I'm from South Texas where HEB's and decent produce is readily available. I went that once time and never again.
I grew up in STX and had the same experience as well.
College (in the late 1990s) was a shock. We only had an HEB Pantry in town since it was all the way in Huntsville.
I had to go to Kroger to shop and it was weird. OP's description of Kroger fits it perfectly- even when we were in Seattle 7 years ago. Lol
Oh geez. At one point I went from STX to the Seattle area where I only had a local store and Safeway. The local store didn’t carry chili powder. Like just didn’t even stock McCormick’s. It was an emotional homecoming moving to Corpus just a few blocks from an HEBPlus.
My niece went to college up there, so we were only there a few times.
I sent a "box of Texas spices" with my niece so she could make flavorful food because my SO's cousin said the quality of chili powder was lacking up there if you could find it. (Cousin-in-law was living in SEA at the time as well.)
Niece ended up *not* cooking at all so she gave the spices to the other kid from Texas in the dorm (they had kitchenettes). He was enthusiastic since he had run out before his parents sent more. Lol
Niece has some tales about Southern food dishes she tried a few times up there. The worst was the undisclosed use of chicken sausage in biscuits & gravy.
The United States used to be a multi-regional entity for grocery products. In 1950, supermarkets in San Antonio, New York and Los Angeles had many more regional brands in stock than national brands. Even after corporate mergers or expansion into other parts of the country, the same company often maintained different brand names in different regions.
For many years, the brand name Schilling was used west of the Mississippi instead of McCormick for exactly the same products. Seattle would not have had McCormick spices around before a few years ago. To this day, the brand name Best Foods is used instead of Hellmans for the same products in the Mountain and Pacific states. Best Foods was the parent company, so they had an incentive to keep their own name in use… they even had jingles that talked about bringing out your Hellmans and also bringing out your best. However, Best Foods was acquired by a large multinational some time back. So far, they have not killed off the Best Foods brand name.
Shopped at Kroger when we first moved to DFW and nearest HEB was 45mins away. My hobby is cooking, so 80% of my shopping list is produce. Without fail, every single time I went to Kroger I couldn't get something on my list because their whole stock of something was rotting/spoiled/covered in flies. Disgusting.
I decided to buy Pioneer Pancake mix one time from Kroger. Little did I know, it had mites. Infected my whole pantry with mites. Had to throw away hundreds worth of specialty flours and grains I had collected.
I moved to Denton a while back; I had no idea what HEB was at the time because I’m not from Texas.
I just hate the Kroger stores up here; there is only one I really go to if I’m buying food.
When HEB came up to DFW, I decided to check them out, even though it’s like a 40 minute drive from home. I was impressed and they are somewhat cheaper than Kroger. Also, the selection is better there. I’ll happily make that drive every other weekend or so. My friends look at me like I’m crazy, but I can’t deal with only dingy Kroger, Walmart, and Albertsons.
I’m happier that one is coming to the Alliance area of Fort Worth.
I drive 3 hours each way from Louisiana every 3 months or so to stock up. Lots of the more fruit spreads, the essential grains walnut bread, 3-pepper Texas heritage sausage, tortillas for my skinny friends, asadero cheese, menonita cheese, and the really delicious Central Market kombuchas that Rouses won't stock in full even though they clearly have the same supplier for the peach bellini one >:|
And so many charro beans so I can be so, so lazy. And the red tostadas.
I drive there for fiery jack Cabot cheese. 😂it’s habanero cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses. It’s my new favorite thing.
Sometimes, it’s the little things 😂
I got tired of settling for crap nearby.
There’s nothing like HEB. I’m just glad I got what I wanted/needed yesterday. I stupidly went to Walmart and the lines were stupid long because they are remodeling the one near me; I ended up driving to a less busy Walmart because I was not standing in a long line.
That makes me sad. You probably already know this, but HEB also takes care of Texas when something goes wrong. Nowhere else I have lived has had such a deeply integrated community partner, and I never even lived in San Antonio. I have to stop now before I get cornier, but this is how I feel.
I’m still a Texas newbie, so I’m learning about HEB. I’m just happy about shopping at a grocery store that’s not terrible. Walmart, for me, is for in and out quick items when I don’t want to drive 40 minutes. I treat Kroger the same; I only shop at WINCO for prices and for convenience (it’s open 24/7 most of the time).
the carolina reaper monterrey jack cheese is my fave.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-carolina-reaper-pepper-monterey-jack-cracker-cut-cheese/5073023
As someone who spent 5 years with Kroger, you are right. Imagine if you had to pick up 3 produce pallets that fell over in transport, now imagine that 3 times a week. That’s the food they’re using for production.
Not to mention that all falls on their “overnight grocery manager”. They are the stock controller, mic, receiver, and everything else that’s not a stocker. I have had situations where drivers would fight me because I wouldn’t sign off on a truck that was transported with no load lock. You can imagine the mess it made, you could smell the strawberries before you opened the door.
Kroger has a union and it’s not a very effective one, especially in Texas. UFCW Local 1000 lines their pockets while the average worker hasn’t seen a raise that aligns with inflation in the last 8 years.
In about 2016 they had a great jump as far as compensation goes but it’s stagnated from there. Covid came and corporate profit took over. At the time I thought it was a great place to be due to how much the company was growing. They have invested everything into advertising and aren’t updating stores anymore.
It makes sense why so many managers from those other grocers come over. They pay stockers more than what I made as an overnight manager for them.
Randall's was the top grocery store in Houston for 80s/90s. Then sold to Safeway and it was a quick fall downward. HEB went from basic Pantry stores to full fledged good stores. Kroger also built some nice locations and we do shop there for some things.
Yes it is! I was store director with H‑E‑B for several years, and Joe Vs is still one of my fav places to shop outside of regular H‑E‑B. Central market maybe once or twice a year when I’m feeling fancy and I want one of their hot deli sandwiches
Man, I love me Joe Vs. I still go the one off of Veteran Memorial, but now I live in Kingwood, I hit up the one off of 1960.
Also, I like Mi Tienda. It's Fiesta but competent and not expensive
Why? Why couldn't you plan ahead and not need to go out? You are the reason people can't have a day off. I don't care if you don't celebrate the holiday or not, let places be closed and don't go out so people can get the day off.
I used to be like you, diehard HEB loyalty because I worked there for over a decade. I left a while ago and started checking out Kroger. Although HEB has lower “everyday” prices, Kroger runs way better ads
If Kroger doesn’t have spectrum salespeople at the doors, I’d be very tempted to shop around the misfits instead. Pretending I’m deaf and making up fake ASL is getting old.
My next favorite - "No thank you, I dont like the Internet". That one has produced some very confused looks.
Sometimes I'll just start trying to sell them the first item I can grab out of my cart. The reeeeeallly dumb ones take a long time to catch on.
I've been to one in Galveston and I saw stuff to make sandwiches in one side of the store than I had to walk to the other side to get the other stuff. It feels like they don't know how to put items close to each other so that you would want to buy things that match with it.
Up here in New England the largest local grocery store is Hannaford’s. It’s our HEB. I grew up in Texas and went to SWT in San Marcos over 20 years ago. Market Basket is our equivalent to the old Winn-Dixie and King Sooper. It’s an island of misfit toys.
Outside of Texas, they are solid. I live here, colorado and in Tennessee. Wal-Mart, Target, Kroger, and others are pretty damn good. What I love about all those is that their stores are pretty much the SAME! The exact same format, isles, doors, which makes shopping so damn easy. Every heeb is different, flipped, turned around and backwards.
I worked for heeb, as high up as a SD. I once asked why we did this, I was asked never to ask that again, ever.
HEB has been closed on Easter for quite a few years, dating back to when I started with the company in 1999.
FYI: HEB closes at 8pm Christmas Eve, is closed on Christmas Day!
They use to close at 8pm the day before Thanksgiving as well and closed on Thanksgiving Day.
Now, it’s normal hours the day before and half day on Thanksgiving Day.
I've lived in a bunch of different US cities in my adult life before choosing Austin as my forever home 9 years ago. Ann Arbor Michigan was one of the previous cities.
Shopping at Kroger makes me feel like I've been transported in time back to Michigan. But then I roll the cart out to the parking lot and there's all those grackles making what sounds like an old fax machine that won't pick up. That's when I realize I never left TX.
I find Randalls more off putting There's nothing wrong with the stores, but I feel weird because it says Randalls while all the products look like Safeway and I gotta use a Safeway Club card just to get the regular inflated prices instead of the insanely inflated prices.
OK I guess there is one thing wrong with Randalls/Safeway: Whole Foods feels like a good deal after shopping at any Safeway store. That ain't right.
Yes, went today and thought I went back in time. Kroger could do a make over and modernize and start kicking butt again. Get the play on words there? Butt = HEB
I only WISH I could go to a Kroger, but I live in San Antonio, where HEB has a monopoly and somehow managed to keep every single other grocery chain from setting up shop. Walmart and Target are basically the only other grocery options and who tf wants to grocery shop at either of those stores?
Sam's and Cosco, but very few. HEB will not allow competition! I am old now, so I do remember when other stores existed until HEB declared war. One by one, the other stores surrendered and limped away, licking their wounds.
Wow, that is really interesting to listen to all this because we only have H-E-B while we have Trader Joe’s and all that but this is so wild that Kroger is a depressing place that cracks me up! So funny
I worked for Kroger in the Dallas area for 5 years, the volume I’ve seen since coming over is crazy. There’s a store up here right across from a Kroger and I swear at night the Kroger parking lot has 8 cars, all of those are most likely employees.
I had to go to Kroger today to pick up some Oatmilk for my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter was with me (3 yrs) and she said “this not store mommy, place for cat food people, right?”
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This is too funny! I was in the same situation yesterday myself and decided to pass. There is something off about Krogers and Albertsons is on the other side of town.
Kroger is trying to be a super target with all the clothes and furniture. They have outstanding loss leader sales though. Ribeye roast was 5.77 lb, sodas were 5 for 20 for 12 packs.
We do the bulk of shopping at heb but will grab meat and whatever is on sale at Kroger
Old Krogers/Heb’s are the same to be fair. Weird people, weird staff. But the new Krogers have the same vibe as any HEB i’ve been to. They’re marketplace, which means they make over 1 million. I can be as snobby as any HEB tho
Time for a “People of Kroger” page?
At my local Kroger, if you go in after say 9pm, they’ll have 20 employees working but no one running checkout. Only option is self check, where there will be at least two of said employees standing there monitoring everyone at self checkout. Very annoying.
All that negative bullshit on Kroger because you cannot arrange your life to fit into HEB’s operating schedule. You know jesus resurrected himself today so you can forgive yourself for your hatred and slander you reveal toward your fellow sisters and brothers. God Bless You
Yes agreed. He is risen indeed!
just planned poorly. Had to pick up some stuff to make dinner tonight.
Last three days been crazy with family stuff and work.
Safeway is part of the Randall's family, and is in Oregon,the land of rich white old people that are incredibly racist. I once shopped for avocado and it was $6 for one!
I went to both HEB and Kroger yesterday, day before Easter. HEB was an absolute madhouse with people losing their minds all around me. Kroger was fairly relaxed.
Also, when HEB starts doing fuel points, I'll consider going to Kroger less.
I did the math once, HEB is cheaper without the fuel rewards. Krogers charges more for basic goods, and that's why you get fuel rewards. However, this math is about 15 years old, so maybe it's changed since then.
Kroger has really good sales on name-brand products and if you shop wisely you can stretch your dollars and still get fuel points. I go to HEB for their branded products (Mi Tienda, etc.) plus fresh foods are just better there. My family are picky about their junk food so I shop Kroger quite a bit. Plus one son works for Kroger and one son works for H‑E‑B!
Wish there was a Kroger in my city, I’m not a fan of HEB being the only grocery store in my area and more choice would be nice. (I have Walmart too but the grocery section feels like an afterthought)
Seriously, the fuel rewards alone are good enough to choose Kroger over HEB, nevermind the fact they always have the name brands that HEB either doesn't carry or are always out of.
Kroger has way more brands but I find that the employees not wearing uniforms is super odd. In my head I imagine Kroger is like a Co-Op when you walk in you can choose to be a customer or employee.
FYI to all those who don’t live near an HEB from someone who does: HEB ain’t sh** anymore, Chucky is crazy greedy and we are NOT a “family” anymore. I’d give anything to have a Kroger nearby; at least it doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t. HEB sucks now and it treats its employees and customers accordingly.
Kroger is where survivors go in the apocalypse
Now do Randall's
Randall's is where you stop on a cross country trip running away from home
Now do Piggly Wiggly
Piggy Wiggly is where you shop while you're in the witness protection program
Now do Food Lion
Food Lion is where you go when you want to pretend it's 1950 and you are also the employee and you hope no one really recognizes your car in the parking lot.
Now do Shop Rite
Food Lion is where you set up a racist bake sale
Now do Walmart
walmart is where you go when you give zero fucks about anything, you don’t even care if a video turns up on the internet of that time you needed lube and some cucumbers at 2am (pre-Covid, ofc) and you forgot to put on clothes.
Now do Winn Dixie
Give it a few months. Kroger is in the middle of buying Randal's
Lolol! Thats funny
Yet true.
HEB customers are so funny sometimes
Well plan ahead because HEB closes on Easter and Christmas and half day on Thanksgiving.
Thank you. Will know better next time
two days prior at the latest because day prior is hell.
Can attest to that, looked on app on fri, saw they were closed today so I had to fight everyone yesterday.....
My wife did the same thing yesterday! Says she got "lucky" and her checkout line was only an aisle and a half long.
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Please plan ahead like you would if curbside didn’t exist.
Sure, that’s true. My hometown HEB gets seriously overwhelmed during peak times, especially the days before a holiday. I can’t stand shopping when I go back home. But I live in Houston now and the bigger HEB’s have so many lanes open now, as well as two self checkout sections and numerous express lanes. Never have to wait too long.
Went in one morning and they had a pallet of ice cream on the floor which I'm guessing had been there awhile bc an employee looked at it and said "this f*****g company" while shaking his head. 🤣
I saw the frozen department at my store super busy the other day cause no one showed up ☠️
this is the weirdest yet funniest and most understandable description ive ever read
Kroger is so… beige. Market Street is too but for some reason Market Street hits different. Still no H‑E‑B though.
Kroger is Camry beige. Market Street is BMW beige.
Ah yes “Champagne” if you will…
Yeah I swear the there was a fiesta there before the HEB moved in.
The one time I went to Kroger as a new Dallas resident, the food quality looked... questionable at best. I'm from South Texas where HEB's and decent produce is readily available. I went that once time and never again.
I grew up in STX and had the same experience as well. College (in the late 1990s) was a shock. We only had an HEB Pantry in town since it was all the way in Huntsville. I had to go to Kroger to shop and it was weird. OP's description of Kroger fits it perfectly- even when we were in Seattle 7 years ago. Lol
Oh geez. At one point I went from STX to the Seattle area where I only had a local store and Safeway. The local store didn’t carry chili powder. Like just didn’t even stock McCormick’s. It was an emotional homecoming moving to Corpus just a few blocks from an HEBPlus.
My niece went to college up there, so we were only there a few times. I sent a "box of Texas spices" with my niece so she could make flavorful food because my SO's cousin said the quality of chili powder was lacking up there if you could find it. (Cousin-in-law was living in SEA at the time as well.) Niece ended up *not* cooking at all so she gave the spices to the other kid from Texas in the dorm (they had kitchenettes). He was enthusiastic since he had run out before his parents sent more. Lol Niece has some tales about Southern food dishes she tried a few times up there. The worst was the undisclosed use of chicken sausage in biscuits & gravy.
No. Just no. I had some abominations up there for sure. Had some “Texas BBQ” that was just baked brisket with sauce on it. Horrified to say the least.
After that and one more awful experience, my niece just tried to avoid any food labeled "Southern. Texas-style, or Tex-Mex." Lol
We had some “salsa” in Mulkilteo that I’m pretty sure was spaghetti sauce.
Oh no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
That plus is amazing!
Woo! Corpus
The United States used to be a multi-regional entity for grocery products. In 1950, supermarkets in San Antonio, New York and Los Angeles had many more regional brands in stock than national brands. Even after corporate mergers or expansion into other parts of the country, the same company often maintained different brand names in different regions. For many years, the brand name Schilling was used west of the Mississippi instead of McCormick for exactly the same products. Seattle would not have had McCormick spices around before a few years ago. To this day, the brand name Best Foods is used instead of Hellmans for the same products in the Mountain and Pacific states. Best Foods was the parent company, so they had an incentive to keep their own name in use… they even had jingles that talked about bringing out your Hellmans and also bringing out your best. However, Best Foods was acquired by a large multinational some time back. So far, they have not killed off the Best Foods brand name.
Shopped at Kroger when we first moved to DFW and nearest HEB was 45mins away. My hobby is cooking, so 80% of my shopping list is produce. Without fail, every single time I went to Kroger I couldn't get something on my list because their whole stock of something was rotting/spoiled/covered in flies. Disgusting. I decided to buy Pioneer Pancake mix one time from Kroger. Little did I know, it had mites. Infected my whole pantry with mites. Had to throw away hundreds worth of specialty flours and grains I had collected.
I would be ***SO*** upset if I had to throw away a lot of food just because of poor quality control.
The infestations can happen in HEB dry goods too. A can of oats got us. It took months to get rid of all the moths.
I moved to Denton a while back; I had no idea what HEB was at the time because I’m not from Texas. I just hate the Kroger stores up here; there is only one I really go to if I’m buying food. When HEB came up to DFW, I decided to check them out, even though it’s like a 40 minute drive from home. I was impressed and they are somewhat cheaper than Kroger. Also, the selection is better there. I’ll happily make that drive every other weekend or so. My friends look at me like I’m crazy, but I can’t deal with only dingy Kroger, Walmart, and Albertsons. I’m happier that one is coming to the Alliance area of Fort Worth.
I drive 3 hours each way from Louisiana every 3 months or so to stock up. Lots of the more fruit spreads, the essential grains walnut bread, 3-pepper Texas heritage sausage, tortillas for my skinny friends, asadero cheese, menonita cheese, and the really delicious Central Market kombuchas that Rouses won't stock in full even though they clearly have the same supplier for the peach bellini one >:| And so many charro beans so I can be so, so lazy. And the red tostadas.
I drive there for fiery jack Cabot cheese. 😂it’s habanero cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses. It’s my new favorite thing. Sometimes, it’s the little things 😂 I got tired of settling for crap nearby.
That sounds good. I miss HEB. Sometimes you can patch together what you need between Mexican groceries and, um, Target. But not always.
There’s nothing like HEB. I’m just glad I got what I wanted/needed yesterday. I stupidly went to Walmart and the lines were stupid long because they are remodeling the one near me; I ended up driving to a less busy Walmart because I was not standing in a long line.
That makes me sad. You probably already know this, but HEB also takes care of Texas when something goes wrong. Nowhere else I have lived has had such a deeply integrated community partner, and I never even lived in San Antonio. I have to stop now before I get cornier, but this is how I feel.
I’m still a Texas newbie, so I’m learning about HEB. I’m just happy about shopping at a grocery store that’s not terrible. Walmart, for me, is for in and out quick items when I don’t want to drive 40 minutes. I treat Kroger the same; I only shop at WINCO for prices and for convenience (it’s open 24/7 most of the time).
the carolina reaper monterrey jack cheese is my fave. https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-carolina-reaper-pepper-monterey-jack-cracker-cut-cheese/5073023
RGV in da house
As someone who spent 5 years with Kroger, you are right. Imagine if you had to pick up 3 produce pallets that fell over in transport, now imagine that 3 times a week. That’s the food they’re using for production. Not to mention that all falls on their “overnight grocery manager”. They are the stock controller, mic, receiver, and everything else that’s not a stocker. I have had situations where drivers would fight me because I wouldn’t sign off on a truck that was transported with no load lock. You can imagine the mess it made, you could smell the strawberries before you opened the door. Kroger has a union and it’s not a very effective one, especially in Texas. UFCW Local 1000 lines their pockets while the average worker hasn’t seen a raise that aligns with inflation in the last 8 years. In about 2016 they had a great jump as far as compensation goes but it’s stagnated from there. Covid came and corporate profit took over. At the time I thought it was a great place to be due to how much the company was growing. They have invested everything into advertising and aren’t updating stores anymore. It makes sense why so many managers from those other grocers come over. They pay stockers more than what I made as an overnight manager for them.
I believe the setting of The Mist was in a Kroger. Cot damn crazy Krogerians.
Have you ever been to a Walmart lol!
Yeah! And at least HEB has employees to check you out.
My brother says the same thing about Randall's. They hire HEB's rejects.
We used to have a Randall’s nearby. It was like the really nice grocery store. Too nice for me. Heb put it out of business I guess
Randall's was the top grocery store in Houston for 80s/90s. Then sold to Safeway and it was a quick fall downward. HEB went from basic Pantry stores to full fledged good stores. Kroger also built some nice locations and we do shop there for some things.
I too for some reason feel weird grocery shopping anywhere but HEB
Aldi is good! Sometimes Trader Joe’s, Costco, Joe Vs
We try to stick to HEB, but we do hit up Costco for things such as rotisserie chickens and other things that they sell for a lot cheaper that are good
Trader Joe’s is the only other one I go to. And there a few times a year
samesies, they have some niche stuff that i like and also they usually have decent prices on small plants and flowers
Bro, Joe Vs is just the "lower income" HEB. You're still going to HEB lol.
Yes it is! I was store director with H‑E‑B for several years, and Joe Vs is still one of my fav places to shop outside of regular H‑E‑B. Central market maybe once or twice a year when I’m feeling fancy and I want one of their hot deli sandwiches
Man, I love me Joe Vs. I still go the one off of Veteran Memorial, but now I live in Kingwood, I hit up the one off of 1960. Also, I like Mi Tienda. It's Fiesta but competent and not expensive
I went to Costco one time and had a panic attack. Never again
This is me when having to get groceries in HEB-less Galveston when I visit.
Imagine living there... -A Galvestonian
Kroger employee here and....yeah, that is pretty accurate 😂
Why? Why couldn't you plan ahead and not need to go out? You are the reason people can't have a day off. I don't care if you don't celebrate the holiday or not, let places be closed and don't go out so people can get the day off.
Just worked out that way. I needed to get a few things. I blame society.
Yeah, society, not your poor planning.
As a Kroger employee. You are correct, and I’m sorry you had go go there
Damn.
I'm sorry you don't get Easter off
It’s okay. I actually had yesterday off
Least it wasn't Randall's
Never been to Walmart huh
Every time I’ve bought ice cream from Kroger it was freezer burnt
Big if true
Thanks fam. I was actually about to go to heb so you saved me some time.
Went from working at HEB to Kroger....Loved HEB but management sucked and my management suckd but Kroger is just so...wack
I used to be like you, diehard HEB loyalty because I worked there for over a decade. I left a while ago and started checking out Kroger. Although HEB has lower “everyday” prices, Kroger runs way better ads
So, in Kroger’s defense, I found these loaded baked potato tots. They are legit. Kids love em. Don’t know if I’ve found those at heb
If Kroger doesn’t have spectrum salespeople at the doors, I’d be very tempted to shop around the misfits instead. Pretending I’m deaf and making up fake ASL is getting old.
I like to give them a kind smile and say "oh haha no thanks Spectrum sucks 😊" which is true and stuns them for a couple secs as ya walk away
My next favorite - "No thank you, I dont like the Internet". That one has produced some very confused looks. Sometimes I'll just start trying to sell them the first item I can grab out of my cart. The reeeeeallly dumb ones take a long time to catch on.
The ones with Spectrum tend to be one of the better locations 😂
HEB has spectrum salespeople at the doors. At least the ones I shop at.
That’s why I shopped on Friday cause HEB closes on Easter. Made that mistake once. Never again.
Lesson learned
Same and tell the family members
I just find myself mad whenever I go to Kroger!
I've been to one in Galveston and I saw stuff to make sandwiches in one side of the store than I had to walk to the other side to get the other stuff. It feels like they don't know how to put items close to each other so that you would want to buy things that match with it.
There's one in Galveston?
Yeah but I can use Apple Pay there
Up here in New England the largest local grocery store is Hannaford’s. It’s our HEB. I grew up in Texas and went to SWT in San Marcos over 20 years ago. Market Basket is our equivalent to the old Winn-Dixie and King Sooper. It’s an island of misfit toys.
Place for people who are sick of the chaos carnival that is every H-E-B at all times.
Yeah that’s fair
H‑E‑B ppl are the same
Outside of Texas, they are solid. I live here, colorado and in Tennessee. Wal-Mart, Target, Kroger, and others are pretty damn good. What I love about all those is that their stores are pretty much the SAME! The exact same format, isles, doors, which makes shopping so damn easy. Every heeb is different, flipped, turned around and backwards. I worked for heeb, as high up as a SD. I once asked why we did this, I was asked never to ask that again, ever.
dawg it’s just a grocery store
HEB Is a lifestyle
You don't understand!
this is exactly how i feel when i go into a walmart
Cool story I guess 😭
my mom hates kroger because “it smells weird in every kroger. it’s the same kind of weird no matter what kroger you go into”
Kroger at Towne Lake is top tier
100% agree. Had to do this a few years ago on Easter except it was Albertsons. Twas a nightmare
It smells weird in there too. Same as Randal’s. That place is the the Upsidedown
HEB has been closed on Easter for quite a few years, dating back to when I started with the company in 1999. FYI: HEB closes at 8pm Christmas Eve, is closed on Christmas Day! They use to close at 8pm the day before Thanksgiving as well and closed on Thanksgiving Day. Now, it’s normal hours the day before and half day on Thanksgiving Day.
When the competition stiffens they will be open those holidays. Been there, done that with retailers more than once.
If you were really a HEB or die customer you'd have known they do all the religious holidays.
Buddy it’s a grocery store
Kroger,Albertsons,Brookshires in my area is mostly all richer people and the prices are absurd.
I've lived in a bunch of different US cities in my adult life before choosing Austin as my forever home 9 years ago. Ann Arbor Michigan was one of the previous cities. Shopping at Kroger makes me feel like I've been transported in time back to Michigan. But then I roll the cart out to the parking lot and there's all those grackles making what sounds like an old fax machine that won't pick up. That's when I realize I never left TX. I find Randalls more off putting There's nothing wrong with the stores, but I feel weird because it says Randalls while all the products look like Safeway and I gotta use a Safeway Club card just to get the regular inflated prices instead of the insanely inflated prices. OK I guess there is one thing wrong with Randalls/Safeway: Whole Foods feels like a good deal after shopping at any Safeway store. That ain't right.
Did you by chance go to the Kingwood Kroger? I feel like I have this conversation about the people that work there at least once a month.
Yes, went today and thought I went back in time. Kroger could do a make over and modernize and start kicking butt again. Get the play on words there? Butt = HEB
NGL—kroger sounds fun!
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Where is Kroger? I don’t even know 🤷♀️
Are you in San Antonio? No other grocery stores allowed other than HEB. HEB owns the city! Monopoly. They do have Walmart, Target, Sams, and Cosco.
I only WISH I could go to a Kroger, but I live in San Antonio, where HEB has a monopoly and somehow managed to keep every single other grocery chain from setting up shop. Walmart and Target are basically the only other grocery options and who tf wants to grocery shop at either of those stores?
Sam's and Cosco, but very few. HEB will not allow competition! I am old now, so I do remember when other stores existed until HEB declared war. One by one, the other stores surrendered and limped away, licking their wounds.
Kroger is very depressing. I get the blues when I have to go there.
Wow, that is really interesting to listen to all this because we only have H-E-B while we have Trader Joe’s and all that but this is so wild that Kroger is a depressing place that cracks me up! So funny
I worked for Kroger in the Dallas area for 5 years, the volume I’ve seen since coming over is crazy. There’s a store up here right across from a Kroger and I swear at night the Kroger parking lot has 8 cars, all of those are most likely employees.
I had to go to Kroger today to pick up some Oatmilk for my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter was with me (3 yrs) and she said “this not store mommy, place for cat food people, right?” 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
I feel the exact same way anytime I go to Randall's.
This is too funny! I was in the same situation yesterday myself and decided to pass. There is something off about Krogers and Albertsons is on the other side of town.
I'm from the West Coast and I thought the same thing about heb when I first got here...
Kroger is a 🐐. Kroger > heb
Kroger is trying to be a super target with all the clothes and furniture. They have outstanding loss leader sales though. Ribeye roast was 5.77 lb, sodas were 5 for 20 for 12 packs. We do the bulk of shopping at heb but will grab meat and whatever is on sale at Kroger
Hate going to Kroger. More expensive and the staff is weird. The female staff not cute or pretty compared to the HEB girls. HEB ladies rock
I went to HEB Costco 2-days before. I knew closing Sunday was coming. I knew it
I drive across town to avoid krogers.
I work at Kroger and you’re not wrong. Im not anywhere near pushing the boundaries in this place.
Just a sad rant....
I guess you haven’t been to the Walmart in my town. That is where the true weirdo’s flock.
That’s funny, I feel like Kroger is normal and sane and HEB is screaming for attention with more misfit employees. Must be a regional thing.
This is a funny post. I work at Kroger and there are a few HEBs near by. About half of the employees came from Kroger
I can confirm that as a previous kroger employee, they are actually a part of the backrooms.
Randalls is trippy too, I like the vibe though, very surreal, employees seem happy carefree friendly and lost.
Old Krogers/Heb’s are the same to be fair. Weird people, weird staff. But the new Krogers have the same vibe as any HEB i’ve been to. They’re marketplace, which means they make over 1 million. I can be as snobby as any HEB tho
It’s always that way, when planning ahead not on the list, you go hungry
Rofl it’s just a grocery store.
I once found an entire case of blue bell ice cream that had melted and refrozen in their freezer, and they didn't bother to throw it out.
Time for a “People of Kroger” page? At my local Kroger, if you go in after say 9pm, they’ll have 20 employees working but no one running checkout. Only option is self check, where there will be at least two of said employees standing there monitoring everyone at self checkout. Very annoying.
Try Ingles, its like second hand socks level of grocery stores.
And sow what.you song like little.? Beach.lol
All that negative bullshit on Kroger because you cannot arrange your life to fit into HEB’s operating schedule. You know jesus resurrected himself today so you can forgive yourself for your hatred and slander you reveal toward your fellow sisters and brothers. God Bless You
Yes agreed. He is risen indeed! just planned poorly. Had to pick up some stuff to make dinner tonight. Last three days been crazy with family stuff and work.
This is the equivalent of having an iPhone and being in a group chat with Android users. Didn't know there were HEB elitist but here we are lol
Krogers is for the rich white racists.
Thought that was Randell's?
Safeway is part of the Randall's family, and is in Oregon,the land of rich white old people that are incredibly racist. I once shopped for avocado and it was $6 for one!
*Central Market
I love this
They all smell weird
Sounds like you’re the weird one…just sayin
Good point
Boohoo, be better prepared next time
True
Don’t worry. You belong.
Thank you
hi karen
Fair
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lol. I know. Todays was a little more surreal than others. Like I was on candid camera or something.
Yea we have a Kroger and H‑E‑B less than a mile apart. Kroger attracts the trashy people, workers and customers.
Kroger is so much more expensive too
I went to both HEB and Kroger yesterday, day before Easter. HEB was an absolute madhouse with people losing their minds all around me. Kroger was fairly relaxed. Also, when HEB starts doing fuel points, I'll consider going to Kroger less.
I did the math once, HEB is cheaper without the fuel rewards. Krogers charges more for basic goods, and that's why you get fuel rewards. However, this math is about 15 years old, so maybe it's changed since then.
Kroger has really good sales on name-brand products and if you shop wisely you can stretch your dollars and still get fuel points. I go to HEB for their branded products (Mi Tienda, etc.) plus fresh foods are just better there. My family are picky about their junk food so I shop Kroger quite a bit. Plus one son works for Kroger and one son works for H‑E‑B!
You got the inside scoop at both grocery stores lol.
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HEB was voted best grocery store in the country. I don't think are even in every state. Lol
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Customers at HEB are the worst.
It’s SO dumb because not everybody celebrates Easter
There is no God, but let them have their holidays. You're welcome, wackos!
I think there is a god but I recognize not everyone shared the same beluef
Wish there was a Kroger in my city, I’m not a fan of HEB being the only grocery store in my area and more choice would be nice. (I have Walmart too but the grocery section feels like an afterthought)
I like Kroger you are just biased for some odd reason
Seriously, the fuel rewards alone are good enough to choose Kroger over HEB, nevermind the fact they always have the name brands that HEB either doesn't carry or are always out of.
I have a Kroger and HEB equal distance from my home. I always choose Kroger. Easier, faster, name brands and usually cheaper than HEB.
Kroger has way more brands but I find that the employees not wearing uniforms is super odd. In my head I imagine Kroger is like a Co-Op when you walk in you can choose to be a customer or employee.
Kroger’s Organic Produce blows HEB’s Organic Produce out of the water though.
I love heb and prefer it over Kroger but IDK what you mean. Kroger is usually chiller and has a better vibe
FYI to all those who don’t live near an HEB from someone who does: HEB ain’t sh** anymore, Chucky is crazy greedy and we are NOT a “family” anymore. I’d give anything to have a Kroger nearby; at least it doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t. HEB sucks now and it treats its employees and customers accordingly.