last week's worth

[taiwanderer]

....met with buyers from HEB, they've got 300 stores in texas, making them the largest, privately owned grocer in between the A and P oceans. i think they liked the looks of our facility, so i think they'll be buying our tofu soon. a good boost for a banyan foods that is doing its best to survive. so as my mom and i are hi-fiving each other

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[kyoppolife]

hi gary. no, i'm not familiar with heb. thats not the kong kong foods grocery right? i was in houston last weekend and went to the hong kong mall for the first time. what a ginormous asian mega grocery! how can the lil guys compete against them? with all the asian families that go into the small grocery business, i wonder how much they have been affected.

other houston observations:
- tam tam's has good cheap late night food.
- houston is way too fuggin spread out.
- driving down westheimer on a weekend night is like accidentally making a wrong turn into the indy 500. its all good though, i spanked my share of mustangs and civics.
- i didn't think any metropolitan area in america had more mosquitos than new orleans. i was wrong.

hi tim

[taiwanderer]

i heard HEB was throughout texas, with some stores in louisiana (possibly new orleans) and mexico, that's why i asked.

heb is definitely not honk kong mall on bellaire... you bring up a good point though. the other end of bellaire, where diho, welcome, dynasty, and the other smaller grocers.. are facing harder times, with ownership changing hands many times already. hong kong mall has def put a dent into them. i guess it's not cannibalism, but intra-community capitalistic competition.

houston has alot of good late night food. and yes, we need a damn train. hahaha, word on the flying pestilence.

let me know when you're in town again. if i'm in town, the tofu's treating.