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H-E-B in Bastrop County

Bastrop has one H-E-B and it is the big format. Here is what is on the site, what hours each part of it keeps, and what to do if you live at the other end of the county.

Two stores, and only one of them is the big one

The county has two H-E-Bs, and the difference between them is the thing worth knowing before you drive.

Bastrop, Hasler Boulevard — an H-E-B plus!, the company's larger format.
Elgin, East US Highway 290 — a standard H-E-B, serving the north of the county.

Each site has its own H-E-B Fuel station and H-E-B Pharmacy, mapped separately below because they keep their own hours, which are not the store's hours.

What "H-E-B plus!" actually means

The plus! format is the full supermarket plus general merchandise — homewares, small appliances, seasonal, toys, and a much bigger non-food footprint than a standard store carries. In practice it is the difference between driving to Bastrop for groceries and driving to Bastrop for groceries and everything else on the list. If your errand is only food, Elgin's store does that job without the Highway 71 traffic.

The company, briefly

1905Founded in Kerrville by Florence Butt

TexasPrivately held, San Antonio headquarters

FamilyStill owned by the Butt family, never gone public

340+Stores across Texas and northern Mexico

H-E-B is the rare national-scale retailer that is genuinely regional by choice. It does not operate outside Texas and Mexico, it is not listed on any exchange, and it has spent a century building its reputation on two things that matter in a county like this one: local sourcing, and turning up during disasters. Its mobile kitchens and disaster relief units are a fixture after Texas hurricanes and freezes, and that is a large part of why Texans talk about a grocery chain the way other places talk about a football team.

Company facts above are matters of public record. Everything about the Bastrop store specifically comes from the map data below.

Practical notes for the Bastrop store

Where it is. Hasler Boulevard, off Highway 71 at the eastern end of the Bastrop retail strip — the same run of road as Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy and Academy. One trip covers a lot of ground.
Curbside and delivery. H-E-B runs both from its own app and website rather than through a third party. Slots at this store book out on weekends well before the weekend.
The pharmacy keeps its own hours, and they are shorter than the store's. Checking them before driving over is worth the ten seconds.
Fuel. The station on site is usually among the cheaper options on this stretch of 71, and takes the same rewards.
Busiest. Saturday late morning and the two hours after five on weekdays, which is when the whole strip is busy, not just this store.

For the rest of the county

There is no H-E-B in Smithville. Its full-size grocer is Brookshire Brothers, which is employee-owned and a genuinely different proposition. Elgin has both an H-E-B and its own Walmart. For the small communities — McDade, Paige, Cedar Creek, Red Rock — Dollar General is very often the only shop in town, which is a real fact about rural Texas rather than a recommendation.

Every H-E-B location on file

6 entries — the store, the fuel station and the pharmacy are mapped separately because they keep separate hours.

H-E-B Pharmacy Bastrop

104 Hasler Boulevard, Bastrop 78602

+1-512-321-1033 · website · map

Mon–Fri	08:00–20:00
Sat	09:00–18:00
Sun	10:00–17:00

Details from OpenStreetMap

H-E-B plus! Bastrop

104 Hasler Boulevard, Bastrop 78602

+1-512-321-1011 · website · map · wheelchair access: yes

06:00-23:00

Details from OpenStreetMap

H-E-B Fuel Bastrop

104 Hasler Boulevard, Bastrop 78602

map

Opening hours are not on file.

Details from OpenStreetMap

H-E-B Fuel

1080 East US Highway 290

website · map · wheelchair access: yes

Opening hours are not on file.

Details from OpenStreetMap

H-E-B Pharmacy

1080 East US Highway 290 78621

+1-512-285-4719 · website · map · wheelchair access: yes

Mon–Fri	08:00–20:00
Sat	09:00–18:00
Sun	10:00–17:00

Details from OpenStreetMap

H-E-B

1080 East US Highway 290 78621

+1-512-285-4168 · website · map · wheelchair access: yes

06:00-23:00

Details from OpenStreetMap

The independent version. Plenty of what a chain sells here is also sold by somebody who lives in this county. See the independent grocery businesses in the directory — each one scored on how good its website is, which is the part we can actually help with.

Where these details come from

Addresses, hours and coordinates come from OpenStreetMap contributors, filtered to the Bastrop County boundary, with phone numbers from the Bastrop Regional Chamber directory where OSM had none. Chain hours change for holidays and get remodelled without anybody updating a map, so treat what is here as a good guide and the retailer's own page as the authority. Spotted something wrong? wholetechtexas@gmail.com and it gets fixed.

Lost Pines Guide is not affiliated with, endorsed by or paid by any company on these pages. Brand names belong to their owners and are used here to say which shop is which.