H.E.B. to open new store in San Benito, renovate other Valley stores

H.E.B. to open new store in San Benito, renovate other Valley stores

January 06, 2010 6:36 PM
Sean Gaffney
The Monitor
Photo:Nathan Lambrecht


SAN BENITO — Supermarket giant H.E.B. plans to launch a new San Benito store in 2010 as part of a statewide expansion that includes 13 new stores, the San Antonio-based grocer said Wednesday.

H.E. Butt Grocery Co. also expects to renovate 60 existing stores and to build a new distribution center in Temple. The nation’s 12th-largest grocery chain said the expansion and remodeling would create 5,000 jobs across Texas.

While H.E.B. would not disclose a location for its new San Benito store, the grocery company in 2005 bought the 14-acre site of the Resaca Gardens housing project, Arnold Padilla, executive director of the San Benito Public Housing Authority, said Wednesday.

Of the 60 stores to be renovated, some will be in the Rio Grande Valley, but H.E.B. said it’s not certain yet which locations will get makeovers.

H.E.B. has also dropped prices on more than 5,000 items its stores stock. Bruce Courtney, director of research for Kantar Retail, a consulting firm, said grocers like H.E.B. are cutting prices on popular products to...

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