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H-E-B: A lesson in the grocery business
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fbgstandard01, on January 10, 2018
H-E-B: A lesson in the grocery business

Florence Thornton Butt moved to Kerrville from Memphis in 1904 with a sick husband and three small sons. On Nov. 26, 1905, she opened a small grocery store below her family’s modest apartment at 812 Main Street in Kerrville. Florence spent $60 on inventory — money she borrowed from relatives in

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