DALLAS — It’s become a familiar scene: Hundreds of shoppers lined up outside a newly opened H-E-B, a banner declaring the “grand reopening” of a neighborhood Kroger and a slew of groundbreakings making the way for the newest Tom Thumb, Sprouts or Walmart.
If it seems like there are more grocery store openings than ever in Dallas-Fort Worth, it’s not your imagination. The Weitzman, a commercial real estate firm based in Dallas, has closely watched the commercial real estate market in DFW, Texas and the rest of the country for decades.
The group says the number of grocery stores opening in North Texas recently is unprecedented — and it’s not just H-E-B. Longtime grocery stalwarts Kroger and Tom Thumb are building new stores and reinvesting in old ones; at the end of the day, North Texas consumers win, experts say…