H-E-B

I am from Allen, a suburb of Dallas, just north of Plano. When I lived in Austin on the 80’s for school, HEB was an awesome store. Prices were significantly cheaper and they even had an entire aisle of the generic food with the white label and bold black letters. They even has Beer. It was cheap and fun.
After living I. Dallas/​Allen for the last 25 years or so I got spoiled by having 3 krogers, 2 tom thumbs, an albertson’s, an Aldi, a Fiesta (they specialize I. The Latino population) a Winn Dixie, 2 Walmart super centers (although I don’t really shop there because I disagree with many of their employee policies), a Super Target, a Market street, trader Joe’s, 2 Whole Foods, 2 Asian supermarkets and an Easily Accessible Central Market (the one in Austin is a pain to get to) and a number of Farmers markets, co-​ops and Halal Butchers (best place to get lamb, mutton, and goat) PLIS K-​bar-​K ranch (organic, single source, pasture fed) meat, dairy and Egga. Best chicken ever!!! All this within 15 miles.
My husband took a job in Austin and we live in Round Rock. Seems my only choices are Randall’s, which is very expensive for «regular» food. They do have a great bakery. HEB, which is so busy trying to be WalMart and a sad section of «natural» and bulk items also, they have a t a terrible selection of «regular» food. They do have a wonderful meat department and it is nice not to have to drive all the way to the Domain to get my organic and pasture fed products. I Grew up in the country. I used to food like this. Also a very extensive deli department and organic veg. sushi is good quality I don’t do Walmart and it seems the target has limited groceries. It’s a good 30 minute or so drive to whole foods and natural grocers. I am actually surprised there isn’t a white foods nearby.
So I am generally unimpressed with the grocery store selection here.

Gas is well priced and conveniently located across from ikea and HEB, but the car wash isn’t great, and leaves a ton of dirt on your car.

I love my HEB.
This is a great store. I was told they call it a hybrid store because it’s a full HEB with Central Market upgrades.
Great Café type foods to go. Great produce, bakery and seafood. Lots of quick and easy menu items. We are especially fond of the bacon wrapped scallops and stuffed salmon meals. Prepackaged ideas can often be on the table in 30 minutes.
I often tell people that HEB makes dinner easier for me. I work long hours and drive 45 minutes each way… so good meals quickly are of huge benefit to me.
The staff is friendly for the most part and most items are in stock that I am seeking. No store is perfect but this HEB comes pretty close for me.

Had an experience here that will definitely cause me to use another grocery store. Went to the deli counter because someone requested aged cheddar on their burger. I didn’t know about aged cheddar and inquired. Turns out, its not a sliceable, burger-​appropriate cheese. When my wife and I passed by the deli counter a minute later, a short, dark haired deli girl was actually talking about what an idiot I was and making fun of me. Sorry my cheese knowledge isn’t as vast as some, but there’s no need to publicly shame my cheese knowledge!
I’ll shop in Georgetown where I don’t get made fun of for cheese ignorance.
I will give kudos to their meat counter though. They’re the reason I’m giving two stars instead of petitioning to have stars taken away. Very helpful. Too bad I can’t show my face there because of an employee publicly shaming me.