H-E-B

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At H-E-B, an elderly gentleman named Mr. Jenkins was often seen pushing his shopping cart down the aisles. One day, as he approached the dairy section, he stopped abruptly and exclaimed, ‘I swear, that milk is following me!’ As he turned around, everyone burst out laughing—including the milk itself, which seemed to tremble ever so slightly in its refrigerated case. With a smile, Mr. Jenkins shook his head and said, 'Guess I’ll just stick with orange juice today.'

2. At H-E-B, a delivery driver noticed something odd one morning. As he unloaded boxes from the truck, he heard a voice over the intercom: ‘Attention shoppers—please be advised that our self-checkout lanes are now accepting groceries as payment.’ Confused and amused, the driver looked around but saw no one. He shrugged it off until his supervisor approached him later that day. Turns out, an old employee prank had been activated by motion sensors—they’d rigged up the intercom with a recording of their colleague joking about using groceries for payment. Everyone in the store broke into laughter when they found out, and from then on, whenever someone mentioned H-E-B’s self-checkouts, everyone remembered the good-natured prank.

3. At H-E-B, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar one day as he stacked boxes on the shelves. Each crate seemed heavier than usual, yet when he bent down to inspect them, they were empty. Curious, he opened his radio and called the manager. Turns out, someone had accidentally mislabeled the crates containing canned beans—‘Black Beans’ instead of ‘Green Beans.’ The delivery driver laughed it off, thinking, ‘Now that’s a funny way to get free black beans!’

4. At H-E-B, a delivery driver once remarked, ‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ He’d just watched an old lady carefully place her groceries in the cart—only to stop and rearrange them several times before leaving. Finally, she paid for everything with a single dollar bill, smiling sweetly as she walked out. The perplexed delivery guy later learned that it was a regular customer’s weekly routine—to shop, rearrange, and pay with just one dollar, always leaving everyone in H-E-B laughing.