Joe V’s Smart Shop 1

Why didn’t anyone tell me about this place sooner?
This place has me happy that I moved around the George Bush Intercontinental Airport area.
This place is really simple in design and function. The huge, local chain, HEB, has this place as a dumping ground for foods that didn’t sale that well in store, foods that were over purchased or items they just want to give away at clearance prices.
You can get 3 pounds of bananas here for $ 1, and that is just regular pricing. You read that correctly, that is not a sales price. All the fruits and vegetables are really well priced all the time.
They even have goods such as household/​kitchen items, as well as picnic type accessories at great pricing here. You can buy meat specials, already boxed, for $ 20. If you like the HEB brand items, they have those on deep discounts. There are just a lot of well-​priced items for purchase that makes this frugal guy smile.
I was told that I needed cash to shop here, but that is not accurate. Maybe it is exclusive to this location, but this place accepts credit and debit.
One knock against them is that they always have a car pileup of passengers at the checkout line. I have yet to go here and there isn’t a line at every lane that is being worked. I see they have check cashing options, a bank and much more inside, but I only go there looking for food deals.
Give this place a try, and your wallet just may thank you for it.

I don’t come to joe V often but when I do the prices are Second to none they have great prices they have meat pack that start at $ 20.00 to select from the milk is cheap bread everything is cheap and hence the great prices I just don’t like the long lines they had every line open one through 15 and it was still had long lines people waiting to check out

I have a love/​hate relationship with Joe V’s…on one hand, I can buy 10 bags full of groceries for what I would pay to buy 3 at HEB but 1. they don’t accept credit cards and most importantly, 2. you risk theft, getting harassed by perverts, shopping cart scuffs on your car, and possibly even an armed robbery. I’ve even seen stray dogs living in the parking lot :(needless to say, this place is in the hood so beware of the above if you plan to shop here. Otherwise, you can really save some dough here. Their produce is always fresh and clean and they actually have an organic section which is quite small but still good. Don’t expect to find things like feta cheese and Dijon mustard here but you can get the basics and go somewhere else for the more gourmet items.

This place is not like whole foods but in order to go to whole foods, you pay «whole food’s prices. You see, i am not a fan of the HEB company making stores to appeal to people of a certain race (central market= white people, Joe V’s= African American, Mi Tienda– Hispanic people) but this review isn’t over that. it just to explain that it’s very cheap, has fresh produce and everyone who works here is very nice! It’s great to have something like this in the neighborhood!

I have gone twice and keep telling myself not to go back. It has been messy, extremely packed and quite frankly just a crazy place to be. This may be because I go on sundays, so my advice to anyone going here is to try and go on a less packed day.

This location is usually well stocked & organized. Great deals on items like name brand turkey, pastrami, etc. that are usually $ 4+ every where else. I was skeptical thinking a lot of their stuff has to be expired, but that’s not the case at all.
Also a good place to stock up on cooking neccessities like onions, fruit, bell pepper, butter, seasoning & such. They make in store fresh guacamole which I gotta say is pretty darn good.
They have these $ 20 meat packs which are perfect if you live solo or a small family. You’d easily spend $ 30+ buying the items seperately.
If you go here, check out the guy selling tamales right outside… they’re delicious!!! He gives free samples too!
One negative is the lines can get kinda long, but what do you expect from a lower cost store. Families are in line with 2 or 3 baskets full of grocieries. So come with a little patience especially if it’s the weekend! :-) But it’s nothing like that hell whole of a Wal-​Mart on West Rd & 45!