#h-e-b

[youreyesaremyfavoritecolor]

hi just so you know H-E-B does more for texas than FEMA, and if you’re wondering who’s sending aid to kerrvile, i can tell you it’s not FEMA

[idroolinmysleep]

Jackson Pollock, Camp with Oil Rig, ca. 1930–1933, oil on board

This is one of the pieces from the collection of Charles Butt (of the H-E-B grocery store family) now on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. Unless Pollock made copies, this should be the same work that was sold at Christie’s in 2011 (though the auction page also shows either a bottom half or a verso image).

Everyone knows Pollock from his drip paintings, and I had no idea he ever worked in the regionalist style. Then I learn from Christie’s lot essay that Pollock painted this while studying under Thomas Hart Benton, so that would make sense.

[married-to-a-redhead]

What is H E B?

It's a fantastic grocery store chain which recently beat out Trader Joe's as best grocery store chain in the United States. Read more about it here: https://www.businessinsider.com/heb-grocery-store-texas-retailer-2019-2?op=1

There is an H-E-B five minutes from my house and I shop there almost exclusively. I have lived in many different places in my life and in my experience H-E-B is the best grocery store by far. Publix is not bad but H-E-B is way way better.

[porterdavis]

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic

The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)

Is a grocery store chain smarter than Trump? Oh, OK, that’s a trick question. A fence-post is smarter than Trump. But H-E-B, a Texas grocery retailer, saw the crisis coming and took steps that are paying off now. But then, they did the same with Hurricane Harvey. Just goes to show what preparedness and clear thinking can do for you.

How about we fire every ‘leader’ at FEMA and replace with H-E-B management?

[kenyatta]

So when did we start looking at the coronavirus? Probably the second week in January, when it started popping up in China as an issue. We’ve got interests in the global sourcing world, and we started getting reports on how it was impacting things in China, so we started watching it closely at that point. We decided to take a harder look at how to implement the plan we developed in 2009 into a tabletop exercise. On February 2, we dusted it off and compared the plan we had versus what we were seeing in China, and started working on step one pretty heavily. We modeled what had been taking place in China from a transmission perspective, as well as impact. As the number of illnesses and the number of deaths were increasing, obviously the Chinese government was taking some steps to protect their citizens, so we basically mirrored what that might look like. We also took an approach to what we saw during H1N1 in 2009, and later got on top of it. Our example was if we were to get an outbreak, specifically in the Houston area, how would we manage that, and how would we respond with our current resources, as well as what resource opportunities would we have.

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic – Texas Monthly

[marithlizard]

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic

The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)

I feel a swoon coming on.  A company with an actual disaster preparedness plan in advance?  That paid attention to China and started preparing while the rest of us were still going “huh, poor guys, glad we’re okay here”?  I’ve never worked for an employer who was willing to invest resources in that much planning, or put so much effort into the well-being of their low-end employees. 

I hope it pays off for them in terms of profits, and that they can stay safe from the big corporate locust-swarms like GE.  

[smolboogara]

sometimes you just gotta refrigerate your doritos I did not do this but it would've been funny if I did