The Woodlands and Fort Worth locations open Friday

Post #358,913 by SpiceWare 6/13/12 3:06:01 PM Reply	The Woodlands and Fort Worth locations open Friday http://blog.chron.co...ands-trader-joes/ The Woodlands is an hour north of where I live, so I won't be frequenting that one. I might check it out if I'm up there for a concert (they have a large outdoor venue there) before the Shepherd location is open. The Shepherd location opens in September, and I drive past the building it's going in at least once a month as it's down the street from my boss' house - we have a monthly meeting there on the first workday of the month. The Voss location out towards linc opens sometime in the 4th quarter.
Post #358,918 by lincoln 6/13/12 5:22:12 PM Reply	We'll be getting a Whole Foods someday Construction has cleared the lot at Fry Rd. and Grand Parkway, so I'm guessing 6 - 12 more months to go. In the meantime, Aldi's wants to put in a store about 2 miles north of me. naturally the neighborhood is against it because it will attract "those kind of people" as its clientele... "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #358,923 by boxley 6/13/12 7:29:24 PM Reply	yuppies with snotty attitudes? thats what you see in Aldi's around here. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #358,952 by lincoln 6/14/12 10:56:34 AM Reply	you know what they mean "those kind of people" = "poor inner city minorities" coming out to our not-so-lily-white neighborhood to shop at Aldi's and maybe hang around and bring down civilization as we know it. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #358,919 by Another Scott 6/13/12 5:33:24 PM Reply	You folks in Texas are a bit spoiled. My SIL lives in Austin. There are several Whole Foods (unsurprising since they started there), but she shops at Central Market mostly. The place is always packed when we've been there with her. The prices seem relatively decent, at least compared to Whole Foods. It's an offshoot of H-E-B apparently. http://www.centralmarket.com/ She doesn't have a TJs, AFAIK. We've got Whole Foods, Balducci's, TJs and several of the usual chains (Safeway, Harris Teeter, Giant, etc.). TJs should expand quite a bit more - the store I go to is always busy and sells out of many things quickly. Much better prices than WF or Balduccis, but more limited fresh food selections. Cheers, Scott.
Post #358,921 by SpiceWare 6/13/12 6:20:02 PM Reply	they're getting one next year http://www.statesman...year-2311879.html Yep, Central Market is an HEB store. I've stopped at one here a couple times, but it's not convenient. I normally shop at the HEB plus! in Pearland, they stock a number of items from Central Market. Fun story - while in high school, we lived in Portland, just across Nueces Bay from Corpus Christi where HEB's headquarters was at the time (they relocated to San Antonio a while back). Their IT manager lived across the street from us and he backed into my car one day. He stopped by to give us his insurance info so my folks walked him back to my room where I was working on my Vic 20 BBS software. After explaining what I was working on and showing him the code (both assembly and BASIC), he told me to come work for him when I finished school (I was 16 a the time). Never took him up on it though, I'm not a fan of Corpus Christi and much prefer living in Houston. We've been getting a number of California chains of late. Probably a side effect of the influx of people we've had from that state. While I liked the food at Carl's Jr, I've stopped going there because the service has been really bad and the restaurant's haven't been clean - I'd get there around 11:30 before the lunch rush starts, but always have trouble finding a clean table in the nearly empty restaurant. They would also screw my order up almost half the time. Another thing we get spoiled with: http://spiceware.org...ery/Misc/IMG_1090 I picked that up yesterday. HEB makes these, but I seldom buy them due to my low carb diet. http://www.flickr.co...6@N07/6336051707/
Post #358,925 by Another Scott 6/13/12 7:33:12 PM Reply	rofl. :-)
Post #358,931 by SpiceWare 6/13/12 8:09:39 PM Reply	about the prices Back in the 80s when I first moved to Houston one of my jobs was at Gerland's Food Fair. One of things I found out was that almost all the stores in Houston got their goods from the distributor Grocers Supply (GS). As a cost savings HEB handles their own distribution so they wouldn't be using GS. Because of this, if any grocery store closed GS would buy it at whatever cost and, if need be, sell it at a loss to prevent HEB from getting in the market. HEB ended up creating HEB Pantry, which were smaller stores and started opening them up in Houston. I didn't care for them as I was used to their full sized stores in Corpus Christi, but they did the job and HEB became successful in the Houston market. None of the Pantry stores remain, they've all been replaced with new full sized stores. http://www.bizjourna...ry4.html?page=all interesting tidbit from that article: The two Central Market stores in Austin have become a tourist attraction of sorts, drawing in more than 1.5 million visitors a year, second only to the state Capitol in terms of Austin tourist attractions. boggles my mind that a grocery story is a tourist attraction.

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