Super H Mart: So Good It Hurts
Some rather positive reviews for the 53,000-sq.-ft. Super H Mart now open in the former Randall’s on Blalock at Westview, a few blocks north of I-10. Yelp user Therese S. calls the big Korean chain‘s...
View ArticlePacking Them in at the 99 Ranch
Fiesta Mart closed its I-10 and Blalock location when the Katy Freeway was expanded because too much of its parking got eaten up by the wider freeway. So how is the new 99 Ranch Market going into that...
View ArticleNew Fat Kroger Twins
The largest Krogers in Texas will be opening late this year, 10 miles apart: “The 125,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace stores, which will both feature the same layout, will be located in Brazos Town...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Supermarket Standstill in Timbergrove
“Outside of internal remodels, they can’t do anything with the [H-E-B] Pantry location [at T.C. Jester and 18th St.] except leave it. The Shopping center along with the one located across the bayou...
View ArticleAldi Is Coming to the Former Westbury Centerette
A new Aldi supermarket is on the way to the vacant 3-acre lot at 5300 W. Bellfort once home to the longer vacant Westbury Centerette shopping center, torn down in 2015. Plans for a LA Fitness location...
View ArticlePoking Around H-E-B’s Future Spot on the Half-Vacant Block Across from the...
Here’s the block of land off Kirby between W. Alabama and Steel St. that H-E-B bought last month and plans to plant with a new store, across from the existing Upper Kirby Whole Foods. H-E-B’s idea,...
View ArticleThe Great W. Alabama Grocery Store Corridor
The addition of H-E-B’s planned new supermarket on Kirby will create — as checkout counter intelligence agent Jason Estrada notes on Twitter — a mile-long corridor along W. Alabama of 4 grocery...
View ArticleComment of the Day: A Closer Grocery Quarters on Westheimer
“Four grocery stores in the same mile of West Alabama is a pretty good selection. Reminds me of the Westheimer Supermarket Battle Royale near the Westchase area, where Fiesta, Phoenicia, HEB, Sprouts,...
View ArticleIs El Ahorro Planning To Land Where Kroger Took Off on Airline Dr.?
Crews are now clearing out the northern portion of the strip center at the corner of Airline Dr. and Parker Rd. that Kroger departed last year. The photo at top, sent in by a Swamplot reader, shows...
View ArticleOak Forest Randalls Now in Everything-Must-Go Mode Ahead of Closure
Longtime anchor tenant Randalls is getting ready to retreat from the west side of the Northbrook Shopping Center on 34th St. just off 290 in Oak Forest. A banner hung up on the front of the...
View ArticleDairy Ashford H-E-B Getting Axed Next Month
H-E-B store number 471 in the Memorial Dr. strip at Dairy Ashford will close to the public next month, Nancy Sarnoff reports, but it’ll remain filled with food items. The company plans to turn it into...
View ArticleInside the New Whole Foods 365 Opening Along the N. Loop Feeder Road
Checkout lines at the new 365 by Whole Foods Market stretched about halfway to the back of the store during its opening yesterday as Independence Heights grocery pioneers crowded in to get a first...
View ArticleLa Michoacana Meat Market Bound for Empty Eldridge CVS
Coming soon to the former CVS Pharmacy building at Westheimer and Eldridge Pkwy.: La Michoacana Meat Market. A group with ties to the grocery chain bought the 1.9-acre property earlier this year and...
View ArticleTimbergrove H-E-B To Close Just Ahead of Shepherd H-E-B’s End-of-Month Opening
January 29 will be the last day of service at the 1511 W. 18th St. H-E-B, reports The Leader’s Landan Kuhlman. And the next day, he writes, H-E-B’s new double-decker location at 2300 N. Shepherd Dr....
View ArticleAldi Is Making Its Move at the Crowded Crossroads of Westheimer and S. Gessner
Aldi punched its ticket for entry into the Tanglewilde Center yesterday by filing a building permit to convert the closed 21,300-sq.-ft. Batie’s Ace Hardware at 9525 Westhimer into a supermarket....
View ArticleWhat the Timbergrove H-E-B Looks Like on Its First Day of Retirement
And that’s a wrap over at the 18th St. H-E-B, closed since yesterday so as not to distract from the new, double-decker H-E-B that opened today at 2300 N. Shepherd Dr. between 23rd and 24th streets....
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