H-E-B opened its latest North Texas store on Wednesday. Here’s a look inside.

H-E-B’s latest North Texas grocery store is now open in Allen.

The location at 575 E. Exchange Parkway opened Wednesday at 6 a.m.

Similar to other H-E-B locations, the 117,000-square-foot Allen store features a pharmacy with a drive-thru, home delivery and curbside services, a True Texas BBQ restaurant with a drive-thru, and a primary care clinic.

The store will be open seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

“We’re excited that our H-E-B Allen store is now open to serve customers in this growing area with top-quality service and selection,” said Levon Norwood, H-E-B Allen’s top store leader, in a release. “We look forward to serving Allen with a dynamic shopping experience along with the best of H-E-B.”

H-E-B Allen features a bakery, deli, sushi station, ready-made meal options, live cooking demonstrations, meat market, floral department, a beer and wine selection, backyard and outdoor essentials, beauty and home goods departments and a pet department.

The chain recently announced three future North Texas stores in Melissa, Prosper and Rockwall that are scheduled to open in 2025.

H-E-B Rockwall will be at the southwest corner of John King Boulevard and I-30. The store in Prosper will be at the southeast corner of Frontier Parkway and Dallas North Tollway. And the Melissa site will be the northeast corner of U.S. 75 and Highway 121.

H-E-B opened a McKinney location in July, about eight miles east of the recently opened H-E-B in Frisco.

H-E-B began construction in November on an Alliance store in far north Fort Worth at Heritage Trace Parkway and North Riverside Drive. The H-E-B Alliance is expected to open in spring 2024.

The grocery chain broke ground on a Mansfield store in February at U.S. 287 and Broad Street. It also is slated to open in 2024.

H-E-B purchased other land in Fort Worth in March at The Shops at Chisholm Trail Ranch in far south Fort Worth in “anticipation of (the company’s) future needs.”

When discussing adding another H-E-B to North Texas, spokesperson Mabrie Jackson said there are “many, many more to come.”

H-E-B has more than 430 locations in Texas and Mexico and achieved $39 billion in sales. It is the largest private employer in Texas with more than 155,000 employees across the state.

A look at H-E-B Allen gives a glimpse of what we could soon see in H-E-B stores in Tarrant County:

This story was originally published October 4, 2023 at 3:58 PM.

Jenny Rudolph

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Jenny Rudolph covered North Texas business and economic development at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 2022 to 2023. Her position was funded through a philanthropic partnership with the R4 Foundation as part of the Crossroads Lab.