New Wegmans Opens Today in Virginia

Wegmans in Gainesville, Va., (officially known as Wegmans Lake Manassas) opened today. The Washington Post provided this story with this unique aspect about the store:

Although each store offers a similar selection of goods, Dempsey said the decor varies. Each store has a mural along the back wall representing the region. The Gainesville store's mural depicts scenes such as the cherry blossoms in the District and the Shenandoah mountains. And the mural would not be complete, Dempsey said, without a scene of the Manassas Battlefield.

New Wegmans Planned for Fairfax County in Northern Virginia

Dulles. Fairfax. Woodbridge. Lake Manassas. Leesburg. Fredericksburg.

Now add Mount Vernon in Fairfax County to the list of locations for Wegmans in Northern Virginia. According to an article in the Mount Vernon Gazette:

By Chuck Hagee, Gazette
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Wegmans Grocery is finally coming to Mount Vernon-Lee districts. But, primarily to Lee District, since the plot of land of its future home only contains a small corner in Mount Vernon District.

That was the word delivered by Lynne J. Strobel, Esq., of Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley & Walsh to members of the Mount Vernon-Lee Chamber of Commerce during their luncheon last Thursday at Belle Haven Country Club. "Wegmans is 100 percent committed to this project," she said.

The project she was talking about, to be known as "The Hilltop Village Center," will be located at the intersection of Telegraph Road and Beulah Street, presently home to a construction and demolition debris landfill operation and a nine hole golf course.

New Wegmans Fall Magazine --Italian Food

This fall's Wegmans magazine is now available at the grocery store. Italian food is the theme and some of the recipes look good. As usual, I like to try many of the recipes and this magazine does provide nutritional information, which is critical. But, as usual, this magazine introduces all sorts of new products that you can now, conveniently enough, purchase pre-packaged at Wegmans.

Wegmans Expands Bakery Recall

Earlier this week, Wegmans recalled bagels and bialys. Tonight, add Challah bread and in-store baked rolls.

According to WHEC-TV in Rochester, the baked goods were sold in Wegmans' bakery departments between June 19 and today; the products could contain pieces of metal from a broken mixer.

Customers may return the product to Wegmans for a full refund or call the Wegmans consumer affairs department at 1-800-WEGMANS.

Wegmans Goes Green With Packaging

Supermarket News reports that Wegmans introduces sustainable packaging and sustainable containers in its fresh food areas.

Another good step for the environment. Now only if Wegmans and other stores would get rid of plastic bags and require reusable bags.

More from Wegmans consumer specialist Mary Ellen Burris about green packaging:

A recent step: change all the Asian Wokery Bar food containers (the little red boxes) from pure, bleached paper to those made of 100% recycled paper (35% is post consumer paper; the rest is scrap paper generated during manufacturing). The new boxes perform just like the “old” ones; only the color now is “Kraft” or brown. On the salad and food bars, we’re adding a “green” choice; a similar material of 100% recycled paper. We’ll be watching for customer reaction and would love your feedback.