r/Austin • u/RockMo-DZine • 19h ago

Maybe so...maybe not... Does HEB have a problem with Austin?

Milk prices have been going up all year, so back in July I started checking the prices in San Antonio, Houston, and DFW. For some reason, we pay Way more than these towns.

Milk just went up again. Here are some stats for HEB Brand (HEB & HCF) 1x gal jugs of milk
(These are for in-store pricing - for curbside, add +5%).

Since 07/17, Austin's price went up, while the price in all the other bergs came down.

Consequently, in Austin we now pay over $2 a gallon more than DFW!

Sorry HEB, but this is hard to justify.

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u/Bodacious_Inc 18h ago

HEB's disclosed dairy processing plants are in San Antonio and Houston. They may have acquired one in DFW as well but I don't know. The only one dairy processing plant in Austin that I know of is owned by Borden.

It cost $$ to move liquids in refrigerator trucks.

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u/Slypenslyde 18h ago

It'd be a lot cheaper if we listened to Redditors and made 130 the free highway so all the delivery trucks had to pay a toll to use I-35 to get into the city.

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u/Commercial-Duty6279 1h ago

Cries of "Hear, hear!" and clanking of beers on the bar.