{"id":156110,"date":"2025-08-18T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156110\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:09:10","slug":"h-e-b-presses-ahead-with-dallas-fort-worth-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156110\/","title":{"rendered":"H-E-B presses ahead with Dallas-Fort Worth growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-to-speech__button__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grocerydive.com\/static\/img\/play.svg?500116090725\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n        Listen to the article<br \/>\n        2 min<\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerydive.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dive Brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>H-E-B debuted a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heb.com\/h-e-b-opens-prosper-store-to-serve-communities-in-collin-and-denton-counties\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new supermarket in suburban Dallas<\/a> on Wednesday, adding to its presence in a metropolitan area where it has expanded rapidly during the past few years.<\/li>\n<li>H-E-B <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerydive.com\/news\/h-e-b-expansion-dallas-fort-worth-area-prosper-groundbreaking\/712236\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke ground<\/a> on the 133,000-square-foot store, in Prosper, Texas, in April 2024.<\/li>\n<li>The new location is the ninth store the retailer has opened under its namesake brand in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since it first <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heb.com\/h-e-b-frisco-now-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought its flagship banner<\/a> to the region \u2014 where rival supermarket operators including Kroger and Albertsons also have a sizable presence \u2014 in 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dive Insight:<\/p>\n<p>The new store, about 35 miles north of Dallas, includes a two-story True Texas BBQ restaurant, an expansive curbside parking zone for pickup customers, a drive-up pharmacy, and a fuel station with a carwash. H-E-B also offers live cooking demonstrations and handmade sushi at the store.<\/p>\n<p>H-E-B revealed in January that it had purchased a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heb.com\/h-e-b-announces-the-purchase-of-property-in-the-city-of-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 10-acre site<\/a> in the Dallas city limits and is considering opening its first store in the city on the property, but has not indicated when that location might open. H-E-B has also announced plans to add six other stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n<p>H-E-B <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerydive.com\/news\/h-e-b-is-finally-bringing-its-main-banner-to-the-dallas-fort-worth-area\/597471\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disclosed in 2021<\/a> that it would finally open stores under its mainstream supermarket brand in the Dallas-Fort Worth area the following year \u2014 two decades after it opened its first locations in the region under its upscale Central Market specialty banner. Six of the 10 Central Market stores H-E-B operates are in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.<\/p>\n<p>H-E-B opened its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerydive.com\/news\/heb-dallas-forth-worth-region-store-opening-texas\/711702\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first namesake location in Fort Worth<\/a> in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer has also <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heb.com\/joe-vs-smart-shop-opens-12th-location-second-store-in-dallas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened two stores<\/a> under its Joe V\u2019s Smart Shop banner in the Dallas-Fort Worth area over the past two years. The majority of the locations in the 12-store discount grocery format are located in and around Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. 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