• Aeao@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    “Grocery store in Texas”

    You can just say HEB . We all know it’s HEB.

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        4 days ago

        Maybe… it definitely doesn’t have the presence it did in Florida. In Florida I would see the trucks everywhere.

        Here in Texas it’s just HEB and Walmart

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          4 days ago

          Florida has no Kroger stores and hasn’t in decades.

          Kroger set up a couple large warehouses in Florida that they did delivery only from as some kind of test market. It was actually cheap and reliable. Unfortunately they announced a few weeks ago that they’re shutting it down in January. I suspect they were undercutting prices to build market share and weren’t making much money.

          Also Kroger is absolutely in Texas, but only in the Houston/Dallas/northeast areas. Bizarrely Dallas doesn’t really have HEB (but apparently they are slowly moving in)

          But yeah as someone who currently lives in Florida but grew up in Texas I miss HEB. Publix doesn’t come close.

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            4 days ago

            I only know about Kroger because I dated a girl who was a bus driver. Kroger was doing alot of head hunting.i saw a few trucks as well.

            As for harvill produce I got a tattoo on my chest of a harvil girl lol blank harvil was a great girl just happened at the wrong time. Twice.

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          3 days ago

          Interesting. When I lived there it was in the Houston area (Pasadena), I didn’t realize stuff was so localized. Then again that and San Diego are the only cities I’ve ever lived in or around, so I’m not that familiar with how cities can be microcosms.