H-E-B

This is our store! I love the huge selections, great sales and friendly staff.

Absolutely horrible customer service and unprofessional. The manager there does not listen or consider anything you have to say. The «nightcrew» labeling products does not label things correctly and expects the customers to pay for their mistakes! Will be telling everyone I know about this place and how rude the asian manager Ann is! Will never go back and beware they do not care about their customers here!

I like H-​E-​B, more specifically, this H-​E-​B because it reminds me of a Mexican supermarket (if you’ve been in Bodega Aurrera in Mexico you know what I’m talking about).
Vegetables and fruit always seem fresh (except poblano peppers, those bad boys are always rotten!), everything is usually fine, nothing out of the extraordinary.
However, I have one big issue and at times it makes me sad, once I approach the dairy section I remember the times I’ve bought their store brand lactose free milk and how it has tasted like plastic! It has been a number of occasions where the milk tastes funny, the first time I thought the milk had gone bad but I’ve purchased milk from OTHER locations and it has that same nasty taste. I don’t know what it is.
It’s either their provider or the plant, who knows! I just wished they changed that…
Oh, they also have crawfish on Sundays, personally I hate the smell of it, I think it smells like sewer water. That’s really not an issue, I just avoid going on Sundays, just warning here in case you don’t like that type of smell…
Last, waiting in line here is less stressful than WALMART where there 23,484 lines and only 4 cashiers.

This is a place I frequent becasue I stay right down the street. They always have good deals on fruits and vegetables but they need to either check their registers or something because sometimes when their is a sale on a item it doesn’t ring up as a sell and this has happened to me on three occassions… I caught it the last time and stopped the lady from rining up anything else. otherwise it is a ok store. the bakery made cakes for me several times and they were good… but make sure you pick them up before 7pm because you will have to get someone to help you find a person to help you…

Fruits and food trucks are always found at the entrance advertised, usually the watermelons and larger sized fruits.
As you walk in, it’s an awkward entrance in my opinion because you first see the produce. The left side you will find the meat and seafood market and this is where I was first introduced to the salmon burger which I still eat on occasion. There is a lot of ethnic and american bread to buy as well!
The pharmacy people are pretty friendly.
I only go here when I’m in the area, but I try to avoid it. Just too much traffic and chaos.
I just don’t like the layout of the store, but it is an asian oriented HEB as far as selection.

I needed temporary duck food (4-​lb bag of cracked corn, ok in small amounts in cold temperatures) in a pinch and found it here. While their selection of wild bird food is neither as extensive nor as organized as the Sugar Land HEB, it was still more than adequate.
15-​lb bags of Texas oranges and grapefruit were $ 6.68 or $ 6.99 (which is more than at Welcome supermarket) so I wouldn’t buy fruit here. The fruit was bigger, though.
Pros:
— Huge HEB
— Cutest HEB due to the two white domes in the front
— Ethnically-​diverse clientele
— Tortilla-​making area with conveyor belt and bags of hot tortillas of different flavors
— Clean
— Bananas are only $ 0.39 /​lb while it’s usually $ 0.48 /​lb at all the other HEBs I go to
Cons:
— Located in a busy intersection (Beltway 8 and Beechnut)
— Driving onto the street from the parking lot may require descending slowly at an angle to avoid a bumpy ride

The fiesta of the HEB’s to me. Because of the area and patrons, many of the items here cater to Asian and Hispanic populations. So if you like cooking these types of food, you will find many more options here. They also tend to be anywhere from 10−20% cheaper in their products than many other HEBs. It is why my mom started shopping there to begin with, and why I started going there from time to time. The parking and wait for check-​out can be bad during peak times, but other than that, you can find some good deals and things you wouldn’t find at a standard HEB here.

in the naborhood

This is not my favorite HEB, although it is my preference for grocery shopping in the area. It’s pretty huge, has a sizable and not overpriced produce zone, and relatively quick service on Saturday mornings. It can get hectic here at night like any other grocery store. The downside for me is the lack of selection for baked goods.

I am a fan of HEB because Here, Everything is Better! heee~
This HEB located near Chinatown is somewhat different from most of the other regular HEB stores because at this location, you may be able to find more Asian veggies, and also, some items in the Produce and Seafood sections have their descriptions written in both English and Chinese! In addition, they carry a lot more «Foreign Products» as their «Foreign» aisles are obviously bigger here! Correct me if I were wrong, this HEB seems more «international» than the other HEB stores!
Service is not bad since I never really expect any excellent customer service from places like HEB or Wal-​Mart. The staff is usually friendly and helpful. Food items are fresh, and grocery items in great variety! What’s the best? Their snow crab legs and live lobsters on sales! *woots*
The only bad thing here is the parking! The parking lot is huge, but still, there are too many people coming to HEB, and therefore, parking is nine times out of ten difficult and frustrating. *argh*

HEB varies quite a lot depending on the location and clientele. This HEB serves a larger Hispanic population and it is evident in the foods they carry. They have a lot more fresh Mexican breads, seafood, and delicious desserts (like rice puddings).
There will be a limited ‘gourmet’ fancy cheese section, but in lieu have really good oaxaca cheese, etc. This place feels very much like a fiesta.

Very bad service, lazy people.

This is the largest HEB I’ve been in… it’s akin to an oversized Fiesta… even down to the little shop inside selling faux gold waches and phone cards… Typical fare… cheap veggies and better goods than your overpriced Randall’s down the road… but what makes this HEB stand apart from the rest is it’s international foods section… I love that i can get Jamaican foods there, or Asian foods, and especially Latin foods, with over 27 types and brands of tortillas (sorry folks no non-​GMO options… i guess they haven’t heard the news about that… stick to Whole Foods if u want alldat…) but while this isn’t my HEB of choice, it works for the times i want Curry Chicken, or Jerk Steak where i can find coconut milk without hassle and get it on the grill in a pinch.

Wow, the fish prep station is a lot better than I’ve seen at other HEBs. They have 10 different ways of prepping your fish, with color coded images of what they keep and what you keep in each prepping style. Kudos to competition!

You know, I can admit it. I’ve never really enjoyed the supermarket. But, alas, just this weekend I realized, «Em, you haven’t been grocery shopping in a freakin’ month. You need to eat, skinny man.» So, I hopped in the car and went down to the H.E.B. down from my j.o.b. after work and started what I thought was going to be the horrendous task of filling my cart with food.
Actually, it was the exact opposite. I had a blast. I am a huge kid at heart, and easily distracted. So, right when you first walk in, just past the produce, they have this huge machine that makes tortillas. I was amazed. I stood there for a bit, watching fresh tortillas roll outta this machine. Then I realized I was the only adult standing there watching this happen so I moved on. Gotta grow up sometimes.
The isles are bright and big. You know, a pet peeve of mine is small isles in the grocery store. You know, when you have your cart on the side, and you’re standing there looking, and someone with another cart comes by, so you have to scoot your cart all the way over, and stand flat against the wall just so they can get by? Yea well that didn’t happen in H.E.B. They actually had wide isles. Which was nice.
They also had what I swear is a scavenger hunt/​coupon set up. For instance, I wanted natural peanut butter. So, I picked up skippy natural. Well, if you buy skippy natural, you get 2lbs of free bananas (which is good for weight training/​gaining) so I had to run to produce. It was like this over and over with these little yellow coupons. Buy this, get 4 of these free. Then you had to hunt down the free items on these little yellow coupons before the buzzer. Ok there was no buzzer, but oh in my mind there was. Buy Oscar Mayer lunch meat, get free bread and cheese. So there I am, running all over the store getting these things off of these little yellow coupons like my life depended on it.
Over all, I filled my cart up completely, for $ 35. Seriously. And, I had a blast doing it.
In all seriousness, the store is an organized chaos. There are all kinds of folks shopping here. There’s a massage studio (the p.g. kind), a bank, a bakery, a hair salon, etc. The prices are reasonable. They even show you the prices at other stores. Overall, they somehow managed to take a mundane task like grocery shopping, and made it into something I actually kind of enjoyed. That alone is worth 5 stars.