H E B

The HEB on Main Street in Kerrville is the sixth location of Kerrville's hometown grocery store.

The very first location of the store that became HEB was in this house, below, in the 800 block of Main Street. Florence Butt opened her first store here in 1905. The family lived upstairs.

On December 26, 1911, Florence Butt moved her store to a busier location in the rock Masonic Building on Earl Garrett Street and advertised "Mrs. C. C. Butt.  The Sanitary Grocery Store".  This was the second location.

On December 30, 1921 the C. C. Butt Grocery ran an advertisement in the Kerrville Mountain Sun announcing the store was converting to a cash and carry system. "We will discontinue our delivery service, except that we will deliver orders amounting to $5.00 or more each afternoon after 4 o'clock."  It also stated "We will sell on a very small margin of profit because our business expense will be very low ... and we know that we can save you more than 10 per cent on your monthly grocery bill."

In June, 1925, a Piggly Wiggly store opened in the building at 233 Earl Garrett--shown below, just a few doors down from the C. C. Butt grocery store.  Florence's son Howard, who by this time was running the business, bought the Piggly Wiggly 5 months later and announced that he would be consolidating the two stores into one. This, then, was the location of  C. C. Butt Piggly Wiggly for the next ten years--the third location.

 In August, 1936, a big new C. C. Butt Piggly Wiggly opened at 825 Water Street--the fourth location, about where One Schreiner Center is today. It included a parking lot for 100 cars.  Although opened as a Piggly Wiggly, the store was owned by the H. E. Butt Grocery Company.  HEB owned a number of Piggly Wigglys in Texas.   In February, 1944, the name of all the H. E. Butt-owned Piggly Wiggly stores was changed to HEB.

In June, 1954, the fifth store opened at the corner of Water and Quinlan Streets, where Hastings is today.  I don't have a picture if that store yet.

In March, 1984, the HEB store on Main Street opened, so that is number 6 in the line of Kerrville stores.

And now we have another HEB on Sidney Baker South.