Attention, shoppers. Some of you are bringing in stained, smelly paper bags for reuse. All to save a blessed 5 cents. Really? If you think you’re going to buy groceries at least twenty more times in your life, it’s worth buying a reuseable bag for 99 cents. Redirect your moral outrage to another cause like…
Tag: Wegmans
Fortune’s best employers list: does it consider the importance of pay?
Does pride in company performance compensate for low wages? According to the Fortune annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, the assumed answer is yes. Wegmans ranked third on the list released yesterday, behind Hilton and Ultimate Software. The family-owned grocery chain has made the list every year during the 23 years Fortune has…
Bedeviled by Tasmanian cherries
I’ve been obsessed with cherries since I was a scabby-kneed kid climbing the gnarly tree in our back yard. All kinds of cherries. Fresh, frozen, dried, preserved. Cherry pies, cherry juice (great with vodka and club soda), chocolate-covered cherries, even maraschino cherries. So I was delighted to discover two unknown cherry products at my store….
Petals or pastry? Choose pastry.
You probably don’t buy your Valentine flowers a week in advance. Which is a pity, because floral prices at Wegmans soar in the runup to the big day. At my store, a dozen roses cost $12 yesterday; today they sell for $35. Why? Lack of imagination. Roses are the standby choice, which means popular demand…
Shared blame in opioid crisis
As understanding of the opioid epidemic increases, more attention is being directed toward not only the drugmakers and distributors, but the pharmacies. On the one hand, legal sellers of drugs were merely filling doctors’ prescriptions. But do these sellers have a responsibility to monitor and publicly speak out about increasing use of addictive and potentially…
If Emily Post were a Wegmans cashier…
It’s time to talk cashier etiquette, and by cashier etiquette, I’m not talking about how cashiers should treat customers. That’s pretty clear. Employees should be courteous, friendly and capable. In my experience at Wegmans, most workers meet the standard. No, these rules are about how cashiers should be treated. You’d be surprised. Customers have thrown…
We got your goat
A thin man with a thick accent asks me if we carry goat meat. He doesn’t look hopeful. “Or lamb?” he suggests, as a compromise. The man obviously is new to Wegmans. Of course, we sell lamb. But we also sell goat meat, bone-in, frozen, at $9.99 for a two-pound bag. Right next to the…
Pre-game show at Wegmans
The lines started forming early this morning, people pushing carts crammed with the essentials of Snack Food Sunday. They bought tubs of pretzels, myriad kinds of chips, and popcorn in two-pound bags. They loaded up on meatballs, pizza, wings, chili fixings, pasta fixings, sushi platters, guac, salsa and queso dip. And, after 8 a.m., beer,…
From Old Bay to eBay
Old Bay, the seasoning company owned by McCormick, is boasting that it “broke the internet” with its new hot sauce. The product, offered first on Old Bay’s website, sold out Wednesday within an hour of launch. Some of those lucky enough to make purchases are listing bottles online for as much as $50 a pop,…
Wegman vs. Bezos – a battle of David and Goliath?
How worried is Wegmans about Amazon? The constant promotion of home delivery of Wegmans meals and groceries is one indication. Another sign, although more obscure, is Wegmans’ growing list of internet domain names. In the last two years, the company has registered 10 new names, many of them centered around delivery services. (A few examples:…