We enjoy grocery shopping! Yes, you can make a weekly chore into an event if you enjoy cooking at home. Armed with a list, I accompanied my Pennsylvania-imported buddy to the new Weis in Bayberry (north part of Middletown with new neighborhoods.) He is familiar with Weis from PA but I haven't shopped at this chain, myself.
For quite a while, people living on the north side of town did not have shopping but now there is Bayberry Center with a McDs, (another) Wing Stop and a few other businesses poised to open ...and gasoline, another necessity previously not close by Boyd's Corner Road.
The store is LARGE. Approaching Wegman's-Large. And the aspect is very attractive, from the pavement laid with pavers outside (and at the intersections as well) to the wide front and inside, windows up high for good lighting.
As you enter, you pick up your cart inside (dry on a rainy day) and then off to the deli or prepared foods on the left. T The produce is front left and has plenty of choice. There is also a prepared hot food and salad bar. Dairy and frozen are way off to the far right of the store, more on that later.
Sale beef and chicken was in the front in a refrigerated bin. Great prices on chicken parts and steak.
In the back, you get to the fish counter, which was a bit perplexing as the pre-packaged fresh salmon did not have prices and the labels on the bin were hard to decipher (and they are hard to read if you wear readers.) I prefer that weighed meats and fish be labeled on the package and these were not, and it also completely confused the guy behind the fish counter who was trying to help us. This accounts for the star off the rating. There is a lot of fresh fish you can order to weigh up at the fish station, so it's not hopeless.
There is a large aisle of international/Hispanic/and other ethnic foods (Indian, Asian, Jewish) mostly the more usual items. If you need sauces and curry, they have some. The Hispanic section wasn't enormous but it was ok.
We enjoy dairy foods and the section is all the way on the far right. There is good selection although only two brands of cottage cheese and one was sold out (the one we like.) Weis used to make their own cottage cheese but they don't anymore, so you get Daisy or Breakstones. There were multiple brands and fat percentage types of lactose-reduced milk, which for me is a necessity. Plenty of yogurt including our favorite brand.
Our total bill was fairly good due to the sales which we had carefully scanned before going shopping. Prices seem mid-tier, but with sales, you can do pretty well. This is a one-stop full service grocery store that is well able to service a growing community. People shopping looked happy and friendly and relaxed, so the shopping experience is pleasant. read more
