Convenience retailer 7-Eleven opened a “lab” store in its hometown of Dallas on March 22. The company describes it as a place where customers can “try and buy the retailer’s latest innovations in a revolutionary new store format.” The Dallas lab store—the only one in the U.S.—is located at the Sylvan | Thirty retail and […]
Tag: Texas
Kroger And Nuro To Deliver In Houston Following Arizona Pilot
Kroger and Nuro announced March 14 that their autonomous grocery delivery service will be expanded to Houston following a successful pilot in Scottsdale, Arizona. The service will be available this spring through two Houston Kroger stores, reaching customers in four local zip codes. Store one is located at 10306 South Post Oak Road servicing 77401 […]
Keurig Dr Pepper Relocating Texas HQ To Cowboys Campus
Keurig Dr Pepper announced Feb. 21 that it will move its Texas headquarters from Plano to a new 350,000-s.f., build-to-suit leased facility at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The new location will be ready in 2021 and serve as one of the company’s two headquarters; the other is located in Burlington, Massachusetts. The Star is […]
H-E-B Opens Multi-Level Store In Houston’s The Heights
H-E-B opened its newest multi-level location in the Heights community of Houston, Texas, at 2300 N. Shepherd Drive (at 24th Street) on Jan. 30 at 6 a.m. The new 92,000-s.f. store features expansive shopping options and covered parking. It is equipped with elevators and escalators so customer can easily navigate the double-story structure. “We appreciate […]
Renfro Food Now Offering Non-GMO Verified Salsa
Renfro Foods, maker of Mrs. Renfro’s salsas and other specialty foods, recently received non-GMO verification for many of its top-selling salsas. The nine Mrs. Renfro’s salsas that will be updated shortly with non-GMO verification labels are: Habanero, Green, Mango Habanero, Ghost Pepper, Peach, Medium, Mild, Hot and Raspberry Chipotle. “The number of consumers who want […]
Blue Zones Project Grocers Promote ‘Better Well-Being’ In Fort Worth
Grocers in Fort Worth, Texas, are doing their part to improve the health of the city’s residents. Nicknamed “Cowtown” for the role of the cattle industry in its history, Fort Worth has seen many changes over the years, including a population growth rate ranking it among the fastest-growing U.S. cities. The latest transformation? After a […]
U.K. Hair Thickening Brand Nanogen Launching At Select H-E-B Locations
Nanogen, a popular hair thickening brand in the U.K., is partnering with H-E-B to bring its Thickening Hair Fibres and select top-selling SKUs to select locations in Texas. Starting in January 2019, H-E-B customers will have direct access to the brand’s solutions for thinning hair. “We know the U.S. consumer is looking for solutions to thinning hair,” […]
San Antonio’s ArchPoint Group Acquires Watusee Foods
San Antonio, Texas-based ArchPoint Group, a global products and professional services company, has acquired Watusee Foods, which produces clean-label, limited-ingredient snack foods. According to ArchPoint, this acquisition aligns with its new business strategy of investing in “in small brands with great opportunity and bringing them to market with strong cross-functional expertise in sourcing, sales, warehousing, […]
Natural Grocers Opening Stores In Texas, Colorado
Natural Grocers will open new stores in Fredericksburg, Texas, and Salida, Colorado, on Wednesday, Nov. 21. The stores, located at 610 E. Main Street and 200 F Street, respectively, will each open at 8:30 a.m. with grand opening celebrations. At each store, Natural Grocers will host a Grocery Giveaway Sweepstakes in which nine customers will win Natural Grocers […]
New Sprouts Store Will Bring More Than 140 Jobs To Sugar Land, Texas
Sprouts Farmers Market soon will finish construction on a new location in Sugar Land, Texas, to help meet the growing local demand for fresh, natural and organic food. The 30,000-s.f. store will be located at 13550 University Boulevard and will open on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 7 a.m. Sprouts plans to release details about the grand opening celebration at a later date. Shoppers at the […]
Minding The Pollinators’ Plight Actually Is Austin CEO Ulmer’s Beeswax
by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Southwest When Me & the Bees Lemonade CEO Mikaila Ulmer was four and a half years old, her family encouraged her to come up with a product for a children’s business competition—the Acton Children’s Business Fair. It so happened that her great-grandmother Helen had sent her a 1940s cookbook that included her own […]
Capra Foods Is First U.S. Lamb Company To Receive ‘Step 5’ Certification
Capra Foods, based in Goldthwaite, Texas, has become what it says is the first U.S.-based lamb company to receive the Global Animal Partnership’s (GAP) Step 5 Animal Welfare rating. According to Capra, it received the highest rating ever issued to a commercial lamb program globally. GAP, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization based in Austin, Texas, is […]
H-E-B, Charles Butt Foundation Fund Medical High School Startup
H-E-B and its chairman and CEO, Charles Butt, are donating $2 million to support startup costs and renovations for San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) and Centers for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) Schools’ future CAST Med High School campus located at Brooks, a mixed-use development on San Antonio’s South Side. The school will be […]
Casa M Spice Co. Joins The Go Texan Coalition
Casa M Spice Co., the Dallas-based spice company known for its low-sodium line of spices and rubs, was accepted into the Go Texan coalition by the state of Texas Department of Agriculture. Go Texan is a group of Texas businesses producing products within the state of Texas. The Casa M spices, geared toward specific types […]
Garbo’s Fresh Maine Lobster Opens At Austin Whole Foods
Whole Foods Market at the Domain in Austin, Texas, is offering shoppers a new culinary experience with the grand opening of Garbo’s Fresh Maine Lobster, a Central Texas seafood staple that’s been serving fresh New England lobster in Austin since 2013. Located in the Draft Shack venue, Garbo’s offers New England cuisine for lunch and […]
H-E-B Opens 10th Central Market Store In Texas
Central Market, a banner of H-E-B, opened the doors of its newest location at the corner of Midway Road and Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas, last week with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. This store marks the company’s 10th specialty retail location in Texas, and the third location in Dallas. Central Market Midway brings 250 jobs to […]
H-E-B Names Georgoff Chief Product Officer, H-E-B Digital
H-E-B has appointed Mike Georgoff as its chief product officer, H-E-B digital. Drawing on more than a decade of experience working with high-growth consumer technology startups, Georgoff will help drive H-E-B’s continued omnichannel growth, leading the company’s digital-product strategy, design and development. He will report to Chief Digital Officer Jag Bath. “This is an industry-leading […]
Affiliated Foods Adopts BRdata Cloud To Track Scan-Based Promotions
BRdata Cloud recently debuted two new offerings focused on increasing efficiencies between retailers, wholesalers and vendors: Scan Promotion Tracking and Cloud Vendor Portal. Through Scan Promotion Tracking, BRdata Cloud processes stores’ transaction log data to track the number of times promotional items were purchased. Then, at the end of the promotion, BRdata Cloud generates invoices […]
Junior’s Super Market Readies For The Future
Junior’s Super Market is a seven-store chain based in Pharr, Texas, where it now operates three stores: one Junior’s Express and two Junior’s Super Market locations. Other locations in the Rio Grande Valley include Edinburg, San Juan, Hidalgo, Penitas and Alton. The Shelby Report’s Jan Meade caught up with owner Felix Chavez Jr. for a […]
H-E-B Now Delivering Beer And Wine In Under An Hour Through Favor
Favor, an Austin, Texas-based on-demand delivery company acquired by H-E-B in February, is now offering beer and wine delivery throughout Texas, exclusively from H-E-B stores. Favor rolled out its new service on June 29 in more than 30 cities, offering free delivery on beer and wine orders this summer through Labor Day. The new service […]
