"Wegmans Has Become the Public Face of Rochester"

A great blog posting that talks about the new Wegmans in Henrietta, but then takes the bigger picture and talks about the local importance of Wegmans in Rochester. It also compares Wegmans in 2008 to Kodak in years past.

"Rochester and Kodak were once synonymous. Growing up, it seemed every other kid’s dad worked there. (Mine didn’t, though my grandfather had) “The company treats its people so well that the unions can’t get in”…..I heard that refrain constantly. But it‘s been decades since I heard it last. Struggling to thrive (or even survive) in the digital age, Kodak steadily shed whatever paternalism it once had. At one time it might have ranked high on that Fortune list. But now it is Wegmans' day in the sun."