H-E-B

Frequent HEB in Bryan, Texas. I really like the store. There is always and employess around to help you look for something.

I was driving through the parking lot in a friend’s vehicle. A young white kid collecting baskets/​carts intentionally rammed them into my right rear tire on Saturday. I got out yelling at him, and he walked away from me. A young lady yelled at him too, and he said, «maybe you should slow down!» while continuing to walk away. I couldn’t tell if he was mentally challenged, so I let it slide. This is beyond disrespectful — especially to veterans. I wasn’t speeding… This kid needs to go…

This HEB is just okay. It lacks a lot of the fancier stuff that I shop for, like fancy mustards, cheeses, soups, and stuff. It’s near my house, but I’ll typically go to the one in south College Station because it’s (somehow) quicker to get there, the selection is way better, the lines are shorter/​faster, and the employees are a lot more friendly.
This one doesn’t have as good a bakery selection as other HEBs, but it does have some really good stuff if you’re making Mexican food from scratch, like tons of dried chiles you can’t find at the other HEBs.
The employees at the registers here just talk amongst themselves about weekend plans and stuff while checking you out, rather than greeting you like they do at other HEBs. They talk loudly, and laugh and junk and just have this tiny little barely-​even-​look-​at-​you «hi». Everyone whose helped me in the meat department and elsewhere on the floor has been nice and not shouted at their friends while helping me.
Once, it started downpouring as soon as I walked out, and there were associates outside with umbrellas walking customers to cars. That’s HEB!
The other thing about this HEB is that it has long lines. It’s more of a family HEB, as opposed to a student HEB like the central College Station. Like biiiig families, two cartload families. Bee line for the self checkout or an express lane if you can, the other lanes will be very slow because of giant cartloads and people dealing with kids and being inattentive. It is crazy bananas packed around food-​related holidays.

Rude, slightly dirty store. Other HEB stores seem cleaner with a better lay-​out. What’s with the floor plan here?! You have to walk ALL THE WAY AROUND the center bakery and deli to grab a loaf of bread?! EXHAUSTING!
Rude employees that obviously don’t care about you or their «terrible job».
I’m not a fan of the poor selection of products and food, I always have to go to other stores to get everything on my list. The seafood and meat just don’t seem all that great. It doesn’t have that appealing, clean, modern, friendly, good selection kinda vibe I’m used to in nicer HEB stores in Houston.
I’m also not a fan of demographics, it’s a little sketchy here. I go to Village Foods as much as I can to avoid this place.

Two years in a row, specifically asked for a «WHITE» cake with butter crème icing, nothing fancy, just a fresh cake. Both this year and last year got home, see the label stating white cake with buttercream icing only to get home, cut cake and surprise… Chocolate cake! If you like chocolate, no big deal, no one in our house likes chocolate, so needless to say, very, very disappointed! The folks at the store last year were very apologetic, not so much this year, although they did replace the cake… All acted like what’s the big deal, chocolate, white… Who cares It’s a cake?! No, the point is it was supposedly a white cake, change the label if no one in the bakery can tell the difference just say surprise cake… Chocolate or white surprise!

Terrable store. I will not shop there again. I called to complain to the manager and she did not seem very concerned. I shopped there twice now and both times I had bad problems with their self checkout machines. I always get «wait for cashier assistance“and either the cashiers that are there pay no attention to the customers, or too busy talking to their buddies. No more with any HEB if I can help it.

For those of you craft beer loving collectors seeking the extremely rare and just released 96 rated Karbach Limited Edition Hellfighter 005 Bourbon Barreled aged Imperial Porter Ale, it appeared on the chilled craft shelf by produce apparently in the last two days. No price tag and the 22 oz. Bomber Bottle scanned at $ 14.28. When I declined that price they went and got the beer guy and he said just ring it up at $ 5.39. Twas indeed a killer world class craft, I’d say 96 rating is correct and since there are no prices listed anywhere on the Internet this might be a steal at $ 5 and change. Amazed I had to sleep with the enemy to find something this top shelf at all… At this of all locations in BCS…

If you’ve ever been to Asian supermarkets where they have cell phone stores located outside of the market, little shops selling random things located inside, or even restaurants with a tiny food court, this is what the HEB here looks like, except with Mexican-​related things.

This supermarket is not bad, though it’s obvious it has a lot of Hispanic customers.
It carries a lot of products you won’t find in the other H-​E-​B stores, including a selection of Latin beverages. But it lacks in other things: the international section has been whittled down to very little non-​Hispanic, and the self-​serve bakery container has a lot of pan dulces. But it’s not as upscale as even the College Station, there’s no bulk items, where you can bag it yourself.
It also falls prey to the «why is this item located in two different areas” – walnuts weren’t in the nut aisle, it was somewhere else.
I’ll give credit for the «Shanghai Wok» place, it’s not the best Chinese place in town by a long shot, but it’s cheap and relatively tasty (provided you get the right things). I don’t know if it has white rice, though. I personally think that having Shanghai Wok here pays homage to the fact that the site is a former mall, because a lot of malls have some cheap Chinese food stand.
Still, I only stop here because I go to Blinn a lot, because I think that the College Station location is the best well-​rounded store.

This H-​E-​B seems to be contracting even more than the College Station store. After its first year, 2004, their beer section variety shrank. They haven’t carried any Canadian beer for 2 – 2 ½ years, and Labatt for more than 3. Albertsons on Univ. Dr. has a better selection by a wide margin.
Within the last 1 – 2 weeks, the Caribbean section in the international foods aisle completely vanished.
For some strange reason this store had a better selection of H-​E-​B brand gourmet coffees. That is until the C.S. store started carrying Central Market brand gourmet coffees.