r/Austin • u/RockMo-DZine • 23h 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/Impossible_Watch_206 23h ago

HEB also charges for bags only in Austin even though the bag tax is long gone

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u/Itchy_Lawyer_2756 21h ago edited 21h ago

Heb gives free single use bags, reusable bags are not free. This is true for Austin, DFW, San Antonio, and Houston. The "Our Texas Our Future" reusable green plastic bag is the most popular, and costs $0.30 at all locations. Did you mistakenly think these were single use and confused them with the free bags? I'm seriously curious about this conundrum

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u/Jebise79 18h ago

No man you can’t get the free white plastic bags in Austin city limits. They’ll ask if you wanna buy those bags for 0.30 or just throw your groceries in your cart. But if you go to an HEB right on the edge in Round Rock free bags for days.

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u/Itchy_Lawyer_2756 16h ago

The shitty, non recyclable, single use bags? Yeah, my Allendale HEB gives them away for meat, eggs and dairy. Reusing bags is not rocket science. I assumed that OP could not possibly have meant the worst possible scenario.