Central Market (Texas)
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Retail (Grocery) | |
Founded | 1994 |
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Headquarters | San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
Number of locations | 10 |
Area served | Texas |
Products | Bakery, dairy, deli, floral, frozen foods, meat, produce, seafood, snacks |
Services | Catering, cooking classes, wine classes |
Owner | H-E-B |
Website | centralmarket.com |
Central Market is an American
History
The original store opened in 1994 in the Central Park Shopping Center on North Lamar Boulevard in Austin, Texas.
It was not long before H-E-B Grocery Company expanded the chain to
Central Market specialties
Central Market is known for its Café on the Run. The chain also carries a line of exclusive organic products called Central Market Organics. The product line includes organic or all-natural items ranging from commodities such as milk and eggs to pasta sauce and cookie dough.
Central Market deliberately limits floor space allocated to packaged products, allowing more space for fresh produce, meat and seafood, bulk products, and chef-prepared items. The produce section stocks items such as crab-apples, Meyer lemons, sweet limes, and pink lemons that are hard to find at other stores. The limited space for packaged products is devoted primarily to items that cannot be found at other supermarkets. Other aisles follow the same pattern with an emphasis on local, imported, organic, and gourmet brands rather than standard supermarket products. Central Market also offers a wide variety of sushi which is made in house by sushi chefs. The company that provides the sushi is called Yummi Sushi based out of Farmers Branch, Texas.
Live music
As appropriate for a store that first began in Austin, the self-styled "Live Music Capital of the World", most Central Market locations feature a patio with live music on several nights each week.
References
- ^ "Central Market wins national honor" Archived June 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, San Antonio Express-News, June 11, 2007.