grocery stores

How to assist grocery workers

Posted on March 16, 2020March 17, 2020 by Wegmaniacal

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…

Bot invasion

Posted on February 11, 2020February 26, 2020 by Wegmaniacal

Is this Stop & Shop robot really just looking for spills, or is he monitoring for shoplifters? So, I’m up here in Cambridge, MA & went to a @StopandShop Can someone tell me what in the “SkyNet” hell this thing is following me around the supermarket???? 😳😳 pic.twitter.com/xNPDiX0Sip — Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) February 11, 2020

Upstate New Yorkers love their Wegmans, with a bond that newer customers in other parts of the East are discovering. As a customer and former employee, I share the obsession.

I launched Wegmaniacal in December 2019, to examine the cultlike following the company has developed since its founding in Rochester more than a century ago.

The site stagnated when I left Wegmans and returned to other endeavors. But with rising grocery prices, lowering environmental regulation, and pharmaceutical challenges, it’s time to resume writing here.

Much of what I have to say is positive. Nevertheless, the company is family owned and most of its operations are conducted in private. As a longtime journalist, I’ll also delve into topics Danny Wegman would prefer to keep behind closed doors.

— Laurie Bennett