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In Texas, a grocery chain is now inspiring memes.
Pandora:
One goes like this: "State and federal resources are struggling to get into impacted areas. H.E.B. — outta the way, we're coming."
--- Quote ---... The images refer to the largest grocer in the state, H-E-B, with about 350 stores scattered throughout Texas and Mexico. At a time when retail watchers question the future of brick-and-mortar stores due to Amazon's continued ascendance, the 112-year-old retailer is drawing widespread praise after managing to open 60 of its 83 stores in Houston last Sunday, hours after Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas as a Category 4 storm. (Now, 79 of the 83 stores are open.)
When employees couldn't get to work, some stores still operated with as few as five people: one stationed at the door as crowd control and four working the registers, trying to get people out as quickly as possible.
On Saturday morning, I spoke with Scott McClelland, a 27-year H-E-B veteran who is president of the chain's Houston division. For much of the week, he had worked from 5 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., with days blurring together.
The behind-the-scenes operation, as he told me, is a complicated dance involving multiple command centers, a helicopter, private planes, military style vehicles and frequent calls to suppliers, urging them to send toilet paper — and to skip the Funyuns.
McClelland, in his own words:
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RTWT; very interesting. Mr. McClelland is an old-fashioned can-do man.
H/T AmericanDigest.org
IronDioPriest:
What? No gubmint progrum?
Pandora:
Nope. Probably one of the big reasons what he does works so well.
Libertas:
Whoa! Gubmint cannot like being shown up like that!
::thumbsup::
Glock32:
Well if it was a government program they'd still be working on the 2nd revision to the amendments to the Environmental Impact Report.
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