for my east coast people, I love wegmans. everyone always tells me that there so expensive and its not worth it, but there home brand is often cheaper then other stores including aldi, and Costco. I've started to really price compare everything im buying for groceries and wegmans has frequently come up as the best option. the exceptions are beans, cheese, and pasta from Aldi. and Oat milk and tofu from Costco. i love that I can get the cheapest option but also splurge or more sustainable things like bamboo tissues, and biodegradable cleaning supplies in the same store. Cat treats, applesauce, cereal, frozen veggies are all cheapest at wegmans in my area.They also have really good quality and delicious ready meals, which are obviously not the cheapest option or very frugal but sometimes they are necessary.
Stop shiting on wegmans, its often cheaper.
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Agreed on this
Like thie maple syrup is cheaper at Wegmans than my Costco for sure. Not by much, but certainly cheaper.
And a couple of my other staples also.
Aldi cheaper on plain oatmeal (another staple for me). Costco rarely stocks it.
I do all my shopping at wegmans. They consistently have the best prices and freshest products. They have everything I need so I’m not wasting time and gas running around to different stores. Their employees are pleasant and customer service is top notch.
When we lived near a Wegmans we loved their to-go food and their cakes–really good quality for the price, way better than your average grocery store cake. Some of their prices are excellent! One thing I was disappointed about was realizing that their store brand items were, ingredients-wise, about on par with Walmart as far as having things in them that I’d rather avoid, like high fructose corn syrup in the jam and bread. Aldi has better-quality store brand items imho. But, if we needed something Aldi didn’t have, especially non-food items, Wegmans was a good bet for us.
My faves at Wegmans are the precut veggies — there’s no waste and they cost the SAME as the loose veg (broccoli, green beans, brussels sprouts) or sometimes even less. Their cottage cheese and Greek yogurt are also stellar deals. Most other things I can get for less elsewhere, but those veggies (ooh, I can’t forget the stoplight pepper bags!) keep me coming back every week.
Their ultimate chocolate chip cookies are to die for. I’ve tried to replicate them and got a kinda close, but not really.
The store-brand staples at Wegmans are high quality and cheap. Plus they’re the only store local to me that carries air-chilled chicken. It is more expensive, but it’s not spongy with injected saline solution like standard grocery store chicken. The percentage of injected fluid in most grocery store chicken is ludicrous. I also have yet to have a “woody” chicken breast that was air-chilled.