WooHoo; Wegmans is coming!

“A Wegmans store is coming to Warrington, Pa., about a half hour from my home. I won't run up there all the time, but every once in awhile I do find myself in or near Warrington, soooooo ...

My first Wegmans experience was in Ithaca!”

“I like their labeling system on the store brand products. They have little symbols that indicate if the product is free of certain things. My father has a food allergy where he can't eat things that have gluten in it. This makes food shopping take about 3x as long for him and my mother, because they have to read the labels on everything even things you wouldn't expect to have wheat in it, such as frozen turkeys. Also he can't eat a lot of other grains because they were milled on a machine that also milled wheat, so just reading the ingredients labels isn't always enough. Wegmens puts a symbol on there goods when it is free of gluten. Maybe someday they will move into my area.”

“I've never heard of them or been to one. We got a Gander Mountain near me and it gives me a boner every time I drive by it. The best thing is they carry these yellow MSR knock off canisters for like $2-$3 less and a good selection of freeze dried meals.”

“MarkO and I ran into one another in Wegmans in Ithaca. I think you could move in there and stay for a week. Anybody who needed exotic fixings for the cookoff found them there, plus a sit-down restaurant.”

“I've only been to one Wegman's, a few years ago. I used to date the grandson of the guy who owned it. But really he was only his step-grandson or something like that and probably wouldn't inherit the fortune, so I dumped him.”

“They got Cheese Sauce Powder?
That seems to be very rare East of CA.”

“Check it out on their website Stovie: http://www.wegmans.com/”

“I don't think you'll be defecting SS. Wegmans is fantastic, but it ain't cheap.”

“what is wegmans?”

““what is wegmans?”
Ewker
11:18:41 AM
3/09/06
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It's a Supermarket”

“Search didn't show any.
Onward to the next store. ;-)”

“What's the name brand?”

“Are they as good as Walmart? {ducking}”

“Wegman's rocks! That one in Ithaca was enormous!”

“SS, couldn't you just use the cheese powder that comes with mac'n'cheese?”

“Wegmans currently operates stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland.

Nigal, Nigal, Nigal........
You know they have to be better than Wal-Mart. A much better class of people shop there. You know, the people with lots and lots of spare money. Not those tacky poor people. LOL”

““SS, couldn't you just use the cheese powder that comes with mac'n'cheese?”
lumberzac
10:25:22 AM

That's an option, but I hate to throw away the unused pasta. My training from childhood on not to waste food, ect... LOL”

“Put the pasta in a ziplock and use it for some other meal. I try not to waste food as well.
last edited: 3/09/06 10:40:48 AM”

“Lyra, you blew it...................or did you?

Yo Geo, there is one in Hunt Valley, Merlin, just north of Cockeysville.

It too is jai-normous and the food court is amazing!
They have seating for hundreds on an upper level mezzanine.

Hey Stove not to worry, they got beans and grits there!”

“'Poor kids in China syndrome', me too.”

“What's the name brand of the cheese sauce powder Stovie?”

“They let poor people shop in the store.”

“They built one near where I used to live. We didn't shop them for the majority of our food (who wants to pay for all that granite and marble?) but they are great for specialty items.”

“Maybe somebody's been puttin' that cheese powder up their nose.

That could explain some of the insane rants!”

“I don't know Geo.
Sarbar buys her's at some bulk foods in CA.
She did send me a package of some, but it's almost gone.
Her cookbook calls for that cheese sauce powder a lot.
I found a place on the net to mailorder it, but I wish I could find some chain store to buy it from.”

“I like some nice French Brie”

“2 oz $5
That's only $40 a pound before shipping costs.

That does make the $10 a pound cost from the other website look better. ;-)”

“Anyway, congrads on the nice new store.
It's always nice to have options.”

“Trader Joe's has French Brie for about $5 per pound.”

“““SS, couldn't you just use the cheese powder that comes with mac'n'cheese?”
lumberzac
10:25:22 AM

That's an option, but I hate to throw away the unused pasta. My training from childhood on not to waste food, ect... LOL”
StoveStomper
10:35:35 AM
3/09/06

I take the cheese powder out of the mac and cheese, and then put the macaroni in the next pot of soup I make. It makes a good filler.”

“Living most of my life in WNY I was spoiled by Wegmans and the Occassional International TOPS Supermarket. Calling them Grocery Stores or Supermarkets doesn't do them Justice. They're more like Food Malls. You could use it as a Tourist destination for someone who's never seen one before.”

“All they lack is a campground out back.”

“100 Best Companies to Work For: Wegmans Food MarketsBefore it opened two new stores last year, Wegmans chartered jets to fly all new full-timers to Rochester to be welcomed by CEO Danny Wegman”

“We have this place called Jungle Jim’s in Cincinnati that is just out of this world. They are an international market and have an isle for every major region. A British isle, Irish, Japan, Korea, India…you name it, it’s there. They have rattle snake, alligator, rabbit, haggis and whatever else you want. And beer selection? Pish!! The best! When the wife and I go there we each have a $50 limit. She goes straight for the British candy and I go buy $50 of beer from all over the world.

So yeah, I like them.

http://www.junglejims.com/”

“Wegmans and TOPS International are both great stores. My preference is Wegmans but both have there fans. Near where my parents live they are across the street from each other and both do a great buisness playing off each other.

It will be many years before, if ever that Wegmans comes here but what irritates me is that the same corp that owns TOPS owns some of the stores here. I think it's because there's no competition to speak of they don't bother to try and improve. If I go to the store with a list of 4 things, it's almost guaranteed that they won't have at least 1 of them and another will not be fresh looking. A trip to buy items for a salad takes 3 stores.
And they think if you can get a shopping cart down the aisle, it must need more crap piled in it.”

“Several years ago, on vacation with the wife, I went into some up-scale giant grocery in New York. Even their pet food department dwarfed any thing I had seen. Must have had 20 or more differently flavored pig ears!”

“Bearmagnet, you are just plain spoiled!
>8^P”

“The TOPS stores in my area aren't very good, but they are all located in areas where the next closest grocery store is 30 to 40 miles away. You either shop there or starve.”

“I shop at what was a small family-owned chain, but the sold out to a large chain that continues to run these stores under the old name. I think they scan my discount card for the things I buy and discontinue them.”

“LOL!! Discontinue them...funny.

Man, MarkO is the only one to comment on my a-hole comment? You people must be used to my idiocy by now or something, sheesh.”

“We are, your Adorableness. ;-)”

“We expect it from you Monkeyfukc. LOL!”

“Yeah zac, that's what I mean. They're called Stop & Shop here but it's the same thing. Only as good as they have to be because there's no competition. If Wegman would bring in some stores everyone would get better.

We do have a store coming called Stew Leonard's (another on teh top 100 places to work) if they ever finish with the court battle. Lot's of people like them but I've been to one and don't like the set-up. You can't just go in for a few things it like a maze and you have to pass everything to get to the checkout. I probably won't ever go there.”

“.....but they are all located in areas where the next closest grocery store is 30 to 40 miles away. You either shop there or starve.”
lumberzac
11:55:59 AM
3/09/06

That's why the socialists on TT can't understand why rural people love Super Wal-Marts.
Before Super Wal-Marts, they had no choice but the overpriced food stores that had little or no competition.”

““The TOPS stores in my area aren't very good, but they are all located in areas where the next closest grocery store is 30 to 40 miles away. You either shop there or starve.”
lumberzac
11:55:59 AM
3/09/06

Shucks, you can always make like Uncle Jed and go out and shoot ya some food.”

“Shucks, you can always make like Uncle Jed and go out and shoot ya some food.”
mARKo
1:10:53 PM
3/09/06
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That black stuff bubbling up from the ground ain't oil, it's mud.”

“Sucks the boots offn yer feet, it does.”