H-E-B quietly buying land in North Texas

In 2009, the company opened a distribution center two hours away in Temple to serve its stores around Waco. The warehouse supplies six H-E-B stores in smaller towns along this region’s southern perimeter in Burleson, Granbury and Waxahachie.

The company expanded that facility in 2012, raising speculation that it was planning to enter the Dallas market.

The company’s stores already cover much of the state of Texas. “They absolutely dominate Austin and San Antonio and apparently Houston soon,” Smith said.

Supermarket News, a grocery industry trade magazine, published a story this month with the headline: “How H-E-B became Houston’s hometown grocer.”

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