Wegmans Food Markets

Danny Wegman, CEO of Wegmans Food Markets and Timothy P. Smucker, chairman of the board and Co-CEO of The J.M. Smucker Co. won the 2010 Roger Milliken Lifetime Achievement Awards last week at the VICS/U Connect Annual Conference at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, Texas.

Northeasterners normally must wait until July for local ripe tomatoes, but some upstate New York Wegmans shoppers received theirs a lot earlier: the first ripe cherry and grape tomatoes were picked May 21 at the grocer’s Organic Research Farm in Canandaigua, N.Y., a mere two months after planting — fulfilling Wegmans’ ambition to get the fruit in its stores before the unofficial start of summer.

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is cautioning consumers about a scam involving fraudulent checks with the grocer’s name.

In recognition of Mother’s Day, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is offering a range of events over the upcoming holiday weekend to enable kids to show their moms just how much they love them.

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. yesterday launched a fleet of 50 hydrogen fuel cell-powered pallet trucks using hydrogen and hydrogen fueling-station technology at its Pottsville, Pa., warehouse, to move produce on a daily basis for shipments to its stores in a five-state area.

To reassure shoppers in these times of wide-scale recalls, Wegmans Food Markets has pulled back the curtain on its internal procedures in response to such an event.