About 87 Walmart locations and distribution centers, including 31 stores in Houston, have closed throughout the state as of Monday afternoon because of Hurricane Harvey.
About 87 Walmart locations and distribution centers, including 31 stores in Houston, have closed throughout the state as of Monday afternoon because of Hurricane Harvey.
Photo: Joe Raedle /Getty ImagesThe H-E-B located in Rockport shows damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. About 37 H-E-B stores — including 25 in Houston — have closed because of Harvey.
The H-E-B located in Rockport shows damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. About 37 H-E-B stores — including 25 in Houston — have closed because of Harvey.
Photo: Kin Man Hui /San Antonio Express-NewsH-E-B set up a Mobile Kitchen in the parking lot of their location in Victoria, Texas to help provide free hot meals to those affected by Hurricane Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.
H-E-B set up a Mobile Kitchen in the parking lot of their location in Victoria, Texas to help provide free hot meals to those affected by Hurricane Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.
Photo: Nicolas Galindo /Associated PressDozens of H-E-B and Walmart stores remain closed in Houston and the Gulf Coast area as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to pound Texas with a torrent of rainfall.
About 37 H-E-B stores — including 25 in Houston — and 87 Walmart locations and distribution centers, with 31 stores in Houston, have closed throughout the state as of Monday afternoon, the companies said.
Both retailers have struggled to get emergency services and supplies into Houston, which has seen almost 33 inches of rainfall since Friday, according to the National Weather Service. But the companies have mobilized emergency response units and stock of emergency products to other areas affected by the storm.
H-E-B has deployed more than 15 disaster response vehicles including the company’s two mobile kitchens, water and fuel tankers, trailers and “direct response units” — which include mobile pharmacies and business services that allow users to cash checks and pay bills.
The San Antonio supermarket chain has served meals to about 4,000 people through its mobile kitchen and filled 35 prescriptions using its mobile pharmacy when the company’s emergency response unit arrived Sunday at the company’s store at 1505 E. Rio Grande St. in Victoria, company spokeswoman Julie Bedingfield said.
H-E-B is waiting for road conditions to improve before sending a mobile kitchen to Houston, said Dya Campos, another H-E-B spokeswoman. Sixty stores in the Houston area are operating but will close by 8 p.m. Monday, the company said.
H-E-B’s entire executive team along with employees at the company’s headquarters in downtown San Antonio were dispatched to stores in the San Antonio area last week to bag groceries as shoppers prepared for the storm to potentially hit the Alamo City, Campos said.
Walmart has shipped 795 trucks of emergency supplies to the company’s stores in the South Texas region with 478 having already reached their destination, Walmart spokeswoman Anne Hatfield said. So far, 927 of 1,700 truckloads of water scheduled to be sent to the company’s stores there have arrived, Hatfield said.
Retailers are also mounting donation drives to put toward Harvey relief efforts. H-E-B has pledged $100,000 to aid Harvey victims and has begun accepting donations from customers at H-E-B, Central Market and Joe V’s Smart Shop to benefit American Red Cross for Texas Flood and Hurricane Relief, The Salvation Army and Feeding Texas, the company said in a statement.
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have pledged at least $1 million to the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and Convoy of Hope and other organizations in connection with Harvey relief efforts, the company said in statement.
Amazon Inc. and Whole Foods Market, which completed a $13.7 billion merger, will match cash donations up to $1 million to benefit the American Red Cross’ Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, Whole Foods spokeswoman Betsy Harden said. Whole Foods customers will also be able to donate at the organic grocery chain’s registers starting Tuesday.
And, The Home Depot Foundation is distributing $1 million in donations to American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Convoy of Hope, Operation Blessing and Team Rubicon to bolster Hurricane Harvey relief, the company said in a statement.
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