{"id":406795,"date":"2015-10-15T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T18:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=406795"},"modified":"2015-10-16T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:00:09","slug":"a-possible-sale-for-brookshires-grocery-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=406795","title":{"rendered":"Source: Brookshire Grocery Co. Exploring Sale to H.E.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Brookshires.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Brookshires-150x67.jpg\" alt=\"Brookshires\" width=\"150\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-406796\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Speculation has swirled around Brookshire Grocery Company after a report from Reuters said the business was exploring a sale of its stores, according to an anonymous source.  Our news partner KETK has learned from a source close to the situation that the company looking to purchase the Tyler-based business is H.E. Butt Grocery Company.  A spokesperson for Brookshire Grocery Company declined to comment. Representatives from H.E.B. have not yet responded to a request for comment.  The report from Reuters on Wednesday said Brookshire&#8217;s supermarkets could be valued at as much as $1 billion. The grocery company was founded in 1928 in Tyler and has more than 150 stores under the brands of Brookshire&#8217;s, Super 1 Foods, and FRESH by Brookshire&#8217;s.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>H.E.B., a private company, was founded in 1905 in Kerrville. The company currently has more than 340 stores and 76,000 employees. According to a Dallas Morning News article earlier this year, H.E.B. is the 25th largest retailer in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Speculation has swirled around Brookshire Grocery Company after a report from Reuters said the business was exploring a sale of its stores, according to an anonymous source. Our news partner KETK has learned from a source close to the situation that the company looking to purchase the Tyler-based business is H.E. Butt Grocery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=406795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Source: Brookshire Grocery Co. Exploring Sale to H.E.B.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":406796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 20:56:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407097,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406795\/revisions\/407097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}