Perhaps unsurprisingly in an era of  seismic shifts in the world of food markets, Hart’s Local Grocers announced this week that it will shut its doors by the end of the month, less than five years after the independent grocery ...

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Wegmans is first on the 2019 Axios Harris Poll 100 list for corporate reputation, moving up from the second spot in 2018 and nudging aside Amazon. The study that leads to the ranking looks first at which companies are most ...

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Rochester Wegmans shoppers won’t have to deal with shopping cart gridlock anymore – Wegmans is extending online ordering and curbside pickup at all of its local stores by the end of the month. “Our customers are busy, so when it ...

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When a small company in New York has a bright idea for a new food product, it typically turns to Olga Padilla-Zakour. When a large company, like Wegmans, is thinking of adding a new product line or a new vendor, it ...

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When Whole Foods announced, with the Daniele Family Cos., that it was planning to open a grocery store in Brighton, the plan was to open one in the Buffalo area at the same time – 2017. Today, the Buffalo store ...

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  In the beginning, there was Tom Ferraro and there was Wegmans. In the 40-year history of Foodlink, it’s hard to distinguish whether there was a time that it existed without its largest benefactor, Wegmans, the nationally renowned grocery store ...

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Wegmans this week won an award from the federal Environmental Protection Agency for its promotion of safer cleaning products. This marks the fourth year Wegmans won the Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award. The EPA praised Wegmans for offering ...

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Wegmans has announced it plans to build a store in Wake Forest, NC, which would be its 15th store on the drawing board or under construction. The company now operates 98 stores. The Wake Forest store would be approximately 11 ...

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The Check Out Hunger campaign – in which grocery store customers are asked to add a little bit to their bill to benefit Foodlink programs – started Sunday at Wegmans stores and continues through Dec. 1. “We can’t stress enough ...

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Wegmans will open its 98th supermarket Sunday morning in the Pennsylvania city of Lancaster. The manager overseeing the store and its 475 employees is an Ontario County native — Jimmy Bellis, who grew up in Bloomfield. The company said hundreds ...

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Foodlink Inc. and Wegmans Food Markets Inc.’s annual Fill the Bus campaign has begun, and sponsors are expecting to exceed 300,000 pounds of food for area children this year. Now in its sixth year, the Fill the Bus campaign is ...

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Anyone who has driven on Monroe Avenue in the vicinity of Clover Street knows that traffic near the Brighton and Pittsford town line can be more than annoying, especially during peak shopping times. It can feel like all 49,000 cars ...

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Wegmans warehouse workers have a new five-year labor contract following months of negotiations. Teamsters Local 118 announced the contract that provides a 16.5 percent wage increase over the course of the agreement, better night differentials and a $500 ratification bonus. ...

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A Victor entrepreneur will be making a pitch to Walmart on Wednesday, hoping to expand the market for The Perfect Granola nationally. Michele Liddle, who heads the company she and her husband, Jason Liddle, started two years ago, will travel ...

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Wegmans will open its 97th store on Sunday morning, this time in Chantilly, Va. The 120,000-square-foot store will include The Burger Bar, a casual restaurant modeled on the original in Pittsford. The new store’s executive chef, Halit Ozdemir, trained at ...

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