Midwest grocery chain won’t enter Texas market citing H-E-B dominance

While Des Moines-based grocery chain Hy-Vee plots its entrance into markets in the southern U.S., its CEO has made it clear to employees that the company has no current plans to mess with Texas. 

Hy-Vee’s top executive Randy Edeker announced to employees in a company video that the brand — while expanding into new states for the first time since 2009 — won’t be treading into the Lone Star State anytime soon, due to ever-growing presence of San Antonio-based H-E-B, which recently opened a new…