Our store entrance is 207 steps from the toilet-paper display. This is a distance of about 158 meters or 173 yards, or almost the length of two 90-yard dashes, which today’s first shopper covered in just 1.3 minutes, only to be met with disappointment. The shelves were bare. His letdown was followed by despair from…
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How to assist grocery workers
Thoughts from a Wegmans employee on ways you can help slow the spread of the coronavirus and speed up lines at the registers. Use the hand sanitizer provided at store entrances. If your store doesn’t have sanitizing stations, tell the manager you want them. Curb your worst instincts. Do you really need every package of…
It’s still crazy, but maybe a little less crazy
Hundreds of people stood outside the store entrance Saturday morning, the first shopping day after Wegmans announced it was curtailing nighttime operations. The scene when the doors opened was like something from the Oklahoma land rush. Customers sprinted inside, grabbed carts and hurried toward the far corner of the store, toward the toilet paper and…
Lonely left-behinds
On Saturday night, before the arrival of the delivery trucks, items remaining on otherwise empty shelves looked almost forlorn, like rejects on the island of misfit groceries. There was the gefilte fish… and the sauerkraut… and the squid-ink pasta… and, of course, we’ll always have Peeps.
Wegmans issues a polite suggestion that you stop hoarding
Wegmans posted the following press release this morning: We want you to know, we are here for you, and our doors remain open. Our people are giving their very best to serve you. We recognize you may not find everything you expect at the moment and we appreciate your understanding. If we can all please…
The rush, and then the emptiness
The public response to the Wegmans announcement that it was curtailing hours? Another stampede. This is more than panic buying. It’s an insatiable need to do something, to connect with a trusted provider at a time when other sources of support are shutting down or failing. (School closings and event cancellations are justifiable; the lack…
Use the Purell!
Most of you seem to be ignoring the sanitizer stations Wegmans has set up at store entrances. Please don’t. Note the sign below the dispenser: Attention Customers: We politely ask that you apply hand sanitizer before you enter our store. The stations are not only for your protection, but for that of store employees and…
Wegmans cuts back hours
Wegmans has announced a change in shopping hours, so it can clean and restock stores. The temporary hours will be: NYS (excluding Brooklyn) and Erie, PA: 6 am – 12 am New England, NJ, VA, PA (excluding Erie), NC: 6 am – 11 pm MD: 6 am – 10 pm Brooklyn: 7 am – 11…
Survival shopping
They came. They saw. They bought. And bought and bought and bought. They bought, at times, merely because they could. One woman purchased eight bottles of ranch dressing. A man in his 30s cleaned out our supply of rigatoni. “I haven’t eaten pierogies in 20 years,” another man told me. “But it’s what you had.”…
Wegmans denies coronavirus rumor
Wegmans just tweeted this message, denying that an employee of one of its stores in Monroe County, NY, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 : It has come to our attention that a rumor is circulating which states the person in Monroe County who tested positive for COVID-19 is Wegmans employee and we are closing our…