Great prices: i noted that a popular brand of ice cream at regular price (not marked "on sale") was a dollar a box cheaper than at our "low price" store in Delaware (Delaware doesn't have a Wegmans.) $2.99 vs $3.99
The selection of meats and cheese was really wide: I didn't check lamb and other "odd" meats but I did see veal chops, which are hard to find out our way. There was real Parmesana Reggiano in the wheel, with wedges cut. I didn't try any to see if the quality was good. Sometimes you get parmesan cut off a wheel and it's the same waxy atrocity passed off as parmesan, but next time, I'll try it and see. Good parmesan is addictive. I could eat it alone, but of course it's super in cooking any kind of food requiring cheese mixed in or on top.
Fish looked fresh on ice. The scallops looked beautiful. The fresh fish--some was local such as Jersey flounder. There were porgy and farm-raised branzino. (Sea bass or loup de mer, a popular European fish for grilling.) The fish on ice were not covered by a shield or behind glass. They were out in bins, rather like you see in Chinese or Korean markets. The shellfish was in temperature controlled cases with chilled trays.
There is a large gluten free section for foods like pasta, cookies, flours and other items for those with celiac or gluten intolerance.
The vegetable section was huge but the mangoes were over-ripe and wrinkly. Only the three-pack of organic mangoes (much more expensive) were decent. Many kinds of apples, all looking fairly good except for the Jazz apples, which looked tired out. But there were Empire, Macintosh, Jazz, Gala, Braeburn, Jazz, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp and more--and it's not even apple season. Blueberries were inexpensive: $4.99 for a quart box--about right this time of year.
There were red bananas, something you don't see in stores anymore. it used to be there would be a few in every store, but because shoppers won't buy them, even though they taste great, they've been dropped along with other foods that Americans don't touch anymore, say, liver.
The store is massive. One large section is actually a cafe with a food buffet for eat-in or take out. This is where the one star comes off. There was a good selection of take-away salads in packages, along with pasta, etc but the buffet did not look good. The meatloaf was drying out in the steam table and most stuff looked greasy and unappetizing. Indeed, kids could reach in and snag samples with their fingers. I had to glare down the ones we were shepherding through. But turn your back and they could have been snitching tastes and contaminating the food, so who else had kids who stuck dirty fingers into heated steam trays? Stay away.
Over all, I'd do my shopping there if I lived nearby. The prices are good and the selection is excellent. read more