Responses to Wegmans as a company have been overwhelmingly positive. The
company has achieved cult status and appears to be viewed as an alternative to
other high quality grocery chains, such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and Dean
& Deluca. Multiple Buzzfeed articles have been written about how wonderful
Wegmans is, including “Why Wegmans is the Greatest Supermarket the World Will
Ever Know.”
Wegmans has a website
called ‘Wegmans’ community giving’, which has four main tabs: giving
priorities, which lists the areas Wegmans is most concerned with in a
community, donation requests, food bank requests, and community giving stories.
Since opening, Wegmans
has donated 16 million pounds of food. Wegmans regularly sponsors school
breakfasts for children in need. Wegmans is also concerned with children’s
health in other ways: they regularly sponsor fitness events in their
communities. When Hurricane Sandy hit, Wegmans donated thousands of dollars and
rounded up volunteers to help rebuild areas that had been damaged. The company
has also funded autism research and built science labs for schools in the
surrounding areas of each store. Wegmans has a lot of scholarship opportunities
for local children looking to attend university. They also regularly fund
culinary school for interested students.
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