re: A good grocery store is important -- Didn't realize it until we moved back home

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I read that HEB tried expanding into Louisiana some time ago in the Lake Charles area and it didn’t work out.

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They opened a Pantry store in LC decades ago and shut it down. Those stores were similar to Aldi-about 20,000 sf with limited service and variety. That is how they entered the Houston market at the beginning. They eventually shut those down and opened the larger, full-service stores.
Now they are expanding in the D/FW market with their traditional full service stores after decades of only having only Central Market stores there.

They are a very deliberate company when it comes to expansion-don't expect a Louisiana expansion soon.