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A recently retired H-E-B employee reveals the biggest misconceptions about the brand and its private label offerings. Here\u2019s why she is unabashedly biased towards the Texas retailer.<\/p>\n
TikTok<\/a> creator Brittany (@briztx) posted the \u201cvery lengthy PSA\u201d last week. \u201cI have a confession to make,\u201d she said. \u201cI worked for HEB collectively for 17 years.\u201d<\/p>\n Four of those she spent in-store when she was a student in high school and college. After she got her degree, she took a break for a few years, and then later returned to H-E-B where she worked in procurement and food product development.<\/p>\n Brittany retired from H-E-B in June of this year. Not because she didn\u2019t love the work anymore, but because she is the survivor of two different cancers and she decided to focus on her family, which includes three young children.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou just kind of have to take a step back and take a minute and a breather,\u201d she said, while acknowledging that H-E-B was incredibly supportive of her during the five-year cancer battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brittany\u2019s work with the food product development team gave her an insight into how the grocer supplies the products that are sold under its private label brand names. \u201cThat\u2019s the team that creates the products that are in the HEB, Central Market, Hill Country Fair, Higher Harvest\u2014all the brands,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, because of this, sure, I\u2019m biased about HEB\u2019s products. About the quality, the flavor, the expectations of a product on a shelf. Where I would say several other grocers don\u2019t when it comes to their private label products.\u201d<\/p>\n She acknowledged that she is \u201cheavily biased\u201d and said her own family members would attest to that fact. However, she said there\u2019s a good reason for that. \u201cYou know too much about ingredients,\u201d said Brittany. \u201cYou know too\u00a0 much about the effort and energy that goes into something. But also HEB cares. They care about the customer. They care about the food that they are serving to Texans. Because, ultimately, at the end of the day health and happiness is the most important. But really food insecurity is the most important and being able to afford your food.\u201d<\/p>\n Then Brittany offered what she believes is the most common misconception when it comes to this topic. \u201cNothing upsets me more than when I hear people saying, \u2018I mean, all food products are the same. They\u2019re just slapping their name on an item,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cNo, no, no. When I tell you about the caliber and expertise of the individuals working at H-E-B. It\u2019s astounding. A lot of people don\u2019t even know this exists. But there are food scientists that work for H-E-B. These people go to school for food development.\u201d<\/p>\n She continued, \u201cThere\u2019s food science. There\u2019s chemical engineers that work at H-E-B. These are the incredibly talented, incredibly smart individuals who are putting products into these brands. And they\u2019re not just slapping a label on it. There are standards. I\u2019m not going to go into classified information, if you will, and give away all their trade secrets. But what I will just say is H-E-B is in a caliber of its own.\u201d<\/p>\n She said that H-E-B has over 13 of its own manufacturing facilities<\/a>. That allows it to make many of the foods it sells under its own brand names. \u201cI think the biggest misnomer is a lot of people think Frito Lay makes HEB\u2019s chips, and that\u2019s not the case,\u201d she said. \u201cHEB has their own manufacturing facility for chips, for ice cream. These aren\u2019t recipes that HEB reverse engineered. These are receipts that the food scientists created with help of the [research and development] teams that work at the labs.\u201d<\/p>\n How does that make a difference? \u201cWhen Blue Bell was off shelves<\/a> and it was unsafe?\u201d she said. \u201cHEB stayed on. And it was safe for the customers to consume. HEB led the forefront in removing artificial flavors from their ice cream. So I think there\u2019s just a lot that consumers don\u2019t know. HEB is where it\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n In the comments section of the video, viewers made it clear that Brittany isn\u2019t the only one with a healthy dose of H-E-B love flowing through her veins.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re making me want to leave public education and go work for H-E-B,\u201d wrote one person. \u201cH-E-B doesn\u2019t care about us as customers, they care about us as people,\u201d wrote a third person. \u201cTheir actions speak volumes: Helping the community, environment, employees, etc.<\/p>\n All Hip Hop contacted Brittany via TikTok comment and direct message for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\nWhat Does This Former H-E-B Employee Love About the Brand?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\u201cI drive past like 10+ stores just to get to H-E-B,\u201d said a second viewer.<\/p>\n\n
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