Texans rely on this beloved grocery shop after storms

Residents have been hosting this chain for more than 100 years.


Strong winter storms brought freezing temperatures, ice and snow last week at Midwest and southeast. Subsequent power outages have forced many stores in the regions to close, includingHundreds of Walmart locations.

In Texas, a supermarket chain has been able to provide local residents a constant source of calm. In business since 1905, H-e-B has more than 340 stores on Texas and Northeast Mexico. The inhabitants have not only flipped into the chain based on San Antonio in recent times of the fight - they have done so for more than a century, according toThe New York Times. (In touch:Grocery shortages to wait in 2021, according to experts.)

Although some stores have been forced to close because of power outages and water, most of February had reversed on February 22 with additional services to help customers get back on foot,H-E-B announced.

"It's like H-E-B is the moral center of Texas," said Stephen Harrigan, a journalist and novelist based in Austin.The temperature. "There seems to be there in our state a lack of real leadership, a lack of real efficiency, on the political level. But at the level of the company, when it comes to a grocery store, all these things are in square."

"It looks like when I go to a H-E-B store, they try to understand how to make my life wonderful", Leigh McAnter, Professor of Marketing at the University of Texas and author ofGrocery Revolution, added. "That's what we came to expect from H-e-b. It's heart, and they are good at logistics. If their Texans need water, they can get them because it'stheir Texans who are thirsty. "

This may not surprise that H-E-B landed on a recent list of best shops to buy grocery stores in America in the middle of a global pandemic. In reality,he was beaten only by another chain. To get all the latest news from the grocery delivered directly to your inbox by email every day,Subscribe to our newsletter!


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