astrohip Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 17 hours ago, 004n063 said: I just hope they get tap pay sometime this century So the HEB I use in Brenham recently completed a year long remodel. Completely redid the store, expanded the footprint, etc. Really nice (btw, wanna piss off an old person--rearrange where everything is located in your store). One of the final steps, just a few weeks ago, was redoing the checkout stations, with all new terminals. Finally! So when I first used it, I asked the cashier about using Google Pay. "Oh, these don't do that". 😭😭😭 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 It's insane to me that they won't just pay the fee to enable Tap to Pay or that it's taken them this long to work through the process to enable it on their POS system. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AS_ Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 They make too much money tracking your purchases. I heard through the grapevine from a reliable, relevant individual they were reluctantly going to get around to doing it this year but the lack of noise since I heard about this 7 months ago makes me think otherwise. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 1 hour ago, BigFootsSocks said: It's insane to me that they won't just pay the fee to enable Tap to Pay or that it's taken them this long to work through the process to enable it on their POS system. The fee is actually cheaper. As AS_ mentioned, it is the marketing/tracking of purchased. Tap to pay generates a unique number each time from my understanding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Really tired of HEB being the only place I ever go that doesn't take ApplePay. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 13 hours ago, mkultra25 said: Really tired of HEB being the only place I ever go that doesn't take ApplePay. This might be my bikebrain talking, but I feel like it's part of a very suburban/car-centric notion of grocery shopping. That is, it is assumed that grocery shopping is a big trip for which people would obviously have to bring their driver's license anyway, so no harm done. In reality (mine, at least), it's often just a pop-over thing. Need to grab some basil and a bottle of wine, picking up a steak for dinner, just really feel like an apple right now. That sort of thing. When I lived in Midtown and the Midtown Whole Foods was still open, that was how I shopped 90% of the time, and I never bothered bringing anything more than a phone and the always-on pannier bag. Since it closed, though, I've switched over to HEB, and have had to turn around and bike back home to grab a wallet several times. It's not a big deal, but it's annoying and feels vaguely anti-urban to have to specifically remember something that I literally only otherwise use for airport security, just to grab some food. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 For what little it's worth (and I know this is waaaay off-topic), Samsung Pay has always worked just fine for me at HEB. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 The new 5th page doesn't have a rendering of this proposed Kirby Crossing development. See attached: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrohip Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 9 hours ago, rechlin said: For what little it's worth (and I know this is waaaay off-topic), Samsung Pay has always worked just fine for me at HEB. Interesting. No HEB I go to has any form of Tap-to-Pay. Of course, my sample is two stores 😬. Which HEB do you use that has it? Or is it most of them, and my two just happen to be dinosaurs? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 13 hours ago, rechlin said: For what little it's worth (and I know this is waaaay off-topic), Samsung Pay has always worked just fine for me at HEB. Which HEBs have tap pay? I haven't seen one at either the Montrose one or the MacGregor one 11 hours ago, Highrise Tower said: The new 5th page doesn't have a rendering of this proposed Kirby Crossing development. See attached: I am confused by the wording. Are you saying that the renderings above are no longer there, or that the renderings above have replaced what was previously there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 6 hours ago, astrohip said: Interesting. No HEB I go to has any form of Tap-to-Pay. Of course, my sample is two stores 😬. Which HEB do you use that has it? Or is it most of them, and my two just happen to be dinosaurs? All of them have it. Samsung Pay is unique in that it supports both NFC (the way iPhones do tap-to-pay) and also their own proprietary technology called MST, which works on anything with a magnetic strip reader. Just hold your phone up to the magnetic strip reader and it will emit a magnetic signature equivalent to swiping a credit card. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 On 6/9/2024 at 2:13 PM, rechlin said: All of them have it. Samsung Pay is unique in that it supports both NFC (the way iPhones do tap-to-pay) and also their own proprietary technology called MST, which works on anything with a magnetic strip reader. Just hold your phone up to the magnetic strip reader and it will emit a magnetic signature equivalent to swiping a credit card. They should tell their cashiers. In my experience, they consistently (without exception) say they don’t have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 2 hours ago, Houston19514 said: They should tell their cashiers. In my experience, they consistently (without exception) say they don’t have it. That's because very few phones support it. Only a few models of the Galaxy S series, like my old S7 and my current S20, can do it. So for most people it isn't possible. The cashiers are really surprised when they see it work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 (edited) Maybe the fence coming down was a false alarm because they are going up with a permanent fence now. I guess they were tired of the temporary fence being knocked over in every storm. So far they have done the north side on Steel St. and the west side on Virginia St. I guess they could put up renderings of what is to come on the new fence. 🤷♂️🤞 Edited June 11 by hindesky 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 Is this going to sit vacant for a decade like the property at Kirby and IH69? 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 Yeah that's all they're doing. HEB owns this lot and Shepherd Plaza on Richmond. It's ridiculous they're just sitting on the land and not doing anything with it. Sell it already. I read an article from a few years ago how HEB was ready to open a new store at Shepherd Plaza and it never happened. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 12 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said: Yeah that's all they're doing. HEB owns this lot and Shepherd Plaza on Richmond. It's ridiculous they're just sitting on the land and not doing anything with it. Sell it already. I read an article from a few years ago how HEB was ready to open a new store at Shepherd Plaza and it never happened. I'm not sure HEB owns the Shepherd Plaza property. If they do it's under a shell name company to hide the fact they own it. HCAD listing shows an Alvin address for the owner. I think that was a long time rumor that never happened. This property actually shows HEB owns it on HCAD. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 8 minutes ago, hindesky said: I'm not sure HEB owns the Shepherd Plaza property. If they do it's under a shell name company to hide the fact they own it. HCAD listing shows an Alvin address for the owner. I think that was a long time rumor that never happened. This property actually shows HEB owns it on HCAD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Looks like they will finish today. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 23 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said: This just proves HEB doesn't own it but was thinking about leasing here which probably didn't happen once they acquired the Kirby/W. Alabama property that they do own. I posted the ownership at the post about it in the Upper Kirby/River Oaks section. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 On 6/15/2024 at 2:10 PM, hindesky said: This just proves HEB doesn't own it but was thinking about leasing here which probably didn't happen once they acquired the Kirby/W. Alabama property that they do own. I posted the ownership at the post about it in the Upper Kirby/River Oaks section. That makes sense. I just wanted to share JLL’s response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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