Ever work at HEB?

[Trek234]

I'm considering applying for a job at HEB. (HEB the food store)

I'm wondering - has anyone here ever worked at HEB before? And if so what did you think of it?

Thanks for any opinions!

[Ilsa]

1. My Mother-in-law worked there.

I lived in Corpus Christi when they were headquartered there. They (at least used to) hire top notch people from all over the country to manage operations, food safety, etc. with impressive credentials. I was very impressed with people I've met in social settings from their management group.

My MIL worked there for 25 years in the meat dept. They gave her an opportunity over twenty years ago to move into management of a dept. because she was so hardworking, but she turned it down because she was too frightened to take on that kind of responsibility.

I also know they are an extremely wealthy company, with incredible cash flow, equity, and used to have low/no debt. I can't imagine how that would have changed over the last decade, even with their expansion into new markets.

But I don't think the original owners are active anymore, so I suspect there is alot of cost-cutting and greed going on. My MIL made a very good hourly wage, but she said no one else gets those kinds of performance increases anymore.

Good luck. I hope it works out for you if that is what you want.

[Ilsa]

2. Here's another story:

My husband worked there when he was in college, in a market in Corpus Christi, back in the 1970's. He said HEB was just beginning to open some new stores in San Antonio. One night they were all called in to work to mark back down the prices of all these canned goods whose price they had raised a few days before. HEB had priced all their goods at the San Antonio stores ridiculously low to bring in customers, many loyal to Handy Andy (remember them?). To make up for those losses, they had marked up everything in CC. Then someone accused of them of illegal pricing, so they had to reverse everything.

BTW, my MIL managedto save over six figures in her profit sharing plan over the years with her low level job.

[GOPisEvil]

3. I shop there all the time.

:shrug:

A former supervisor's husband was a store director, so I guess he liked it! :D

[carpetbagger]

4. Yeah, like there's any damn choice.

I mean, I guess I could go fight the grackles in the dumpsters of restaurants, or eat them, but if I want to get my food from a supermarket, that's my only damn choice if I don't want to drive ten miles.

Even in a small town in West Virginia I had two supermarkets to choose from. Here, inside San Antonio city limits, there's one.

[jburton]

5. I miss HEB

I have no idea what it's like to work there, but I remember them having an above average produce section. The signs actually said where the items were grown. There was an emphasis on regionally grown food.

Now I'm in Dallas, which has a Central Market, but no regular HEBs.

My closest store is a Minyard's. Total shit-hole run by a local right-wing family.

[Castilleja]

6. I am interested to see any opinions as well...

I shop there too, otherwise it would have to be Walmart, and I hate to shop there. Wondering what employee life is like there....?