Posted on 03/27/2012 5:47:33 AM PDT by seton89
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Cashiers are barred from interacting with customers until they have completed 40 hours of training. Hundreds of staffers are sent on trips around the U.S. and world to become experts in their products. The company has no mandatory retirement age and has never laid off workers. All profits are reinvested in the company or shared with employees. A doomed Internet startup? Occupy Wall Street fantasy? Bankrupt retailer recently purchased by Walmart?
No, a $6.2 billion-a-year, 79-store-supermarket chain with cult-like loyalty among its customers. Wegmans, which operates its 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania and four other East Coast states, shows that a business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely.
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They've expanded to the entire state of Pennsylvania except Pittsburgh, headquarters of Giant Eagle. I don't know what it is they fear about GE but there are very few markets where they overlap.
Of course, Tops tried to attack GE in the Cleveland market and ended up selling off all their Ohio stores.
A Wegman’s recently opened up about 30 minutes from me.I’ve yet to pay a visit but I *am* tempted.I’m trying to resist the temptation because several doctors have strongly advised me to lose 30 pounds.
Did you know that one just opened up in Northborough,MA? True,it's not just down the street from Nashua/Salem but a little while on 495 and you're there.
I’m about 6-8 miles from the MA line near Sturbridge.
Guess where I buy gas!!
Customer comments concerning Danny Wegman's statement on the ground beef story.
Wegmans has been in my area for over 30 years. There are 2 stores within 20 miles of me. I'm not a huge fan. In my opinion, there is too much "expensive food snobbery", if you get my drift.
Not where I am in South Central PA and nearest Wegmans to me is actually in Hunt Valley MD, right across the street from where I used to work. Pretty much all there is near me are Giant (not Giant Eagle) and Weis and one pitiful Food Lion that’s just down right scary. I work in small town in Lancaster County and the Weis nearby actually has special parking spaces for buggies.
I miss the Wegmans. It’s not a store I shopped at all the time but I loved their salad and hot foods bars. Great place to stop and get lunch or even meet for dinner with a friend after work as the Hunt Valley store had a very nice upstairs dining area.
Wegmans prices for “regular” groceries are not too bad but they get you with all the really cool stuff like the massive cheese department and the prepared foods and the specialty meats and seafood.
Why? I actually loved Danny Wegman's statement on ground beef. It is 100% correct and refreshingly honest - there is nothing wrong with Lean Finely Textured Beef, aka "pink slime," until some stupid social media brouhaha developed in the last 30 days. Here's his statement, emphasis mine:
We’ve made a decision to stop selling ground beef that contains Lean Finely Textured Beef. Having grown up in the meat business, we have always been proud of our ground beef and eat it ourselves. Because of the sensationalism of this issue it has become a concern for our customers. Every decision we make is with our customers in mind. Our commitment remains the same. We will continue to source the best quality ground beef, now without lean finely textured beef.
exactly - and its also interesting to see that in blue collar areas the customer is required to scale up their own produce and print a price sticker - in affluent areas it doesnt happen......
What? You’ve never been to Heinen’s?
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