Wegmans Food Markets

This fall offers grocers well-timed new products and programs to boost fresh sales, as vendors tie into key trends ranging from kids' health to gourmet indulgence.

This fall offers grocers well-timed new products and programs to boost fresh sales, as vendors tie into key trends ranging from kids' health to gourmet indulgence.

NEWARK, Del. - Consumers place high value on the taste of their produce, so much so that many are willing to pay more to get it -- but some feel the produce industry fails to deliver it, according to new research commissioned by the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) here.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- This year Wegmans Food Markets' "Eat Well. Live Well Challenge," introduced five years ago to show employees what exercise, fruits, and vegetables could do for their overall health, opened up enrollment to family members of employees and workers at 73 other companies and organizations here.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- This year Wegmans Food Markets' "Eat Well. Live Well Challenge," introduced five years ago to show employees what exercise, fruits, and vegetables could do for their overall health, opened up enrollment to family members of employees and workers at 73 other companies and organizations here.

New technology is adding robust data and psychographics to the site selection process -- but to win the best locations, you still need to walk the market.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Paul Speranza Jr., vice chairman, general counsel, and secretary of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. here, has been elected chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's board of directors for 2007, according to a published report.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. here has presented 1,273 of its employees with scholarships this year to help with college tuition costs. The grocer will pay $4.6 million for the 2007-2008 academic year for both the new recipients and previous scholarship recipients who are still attending school.