Wegmans foresees expansion from Washington to Boston
In an interview today at company headquarters, Wegmans Food Markets CEO Danny Wegman said the firm’s strategy foresees growth largely outside New York state.
Wegmans is opening its 75th store in Leesburg, Va., this Sunday and is already a major retailing presence in Pennsylvania and the Washington, D.C., area.
Wegman said the grocery chain will open its first store in Massachusetts, perhaps in 2012. The plans are to build in Northborough, Mass., near Worcester.
“We see our growth in a defined crescent between Washington and Boston, extending from Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland and up into Massachusetts,” Wegman said. “We’re looking at Connecticut and the New York City region.”
Both Danny Wegman and company President Colleen Wegman said there is no anti-upstate sentiment at work but that the company builds only one or two stores a year.
Both of the Wegmans stressed that, expansion goals notwithstanding, the company remains committed to Rochester and that there are no plans to diminish its footprint here or relocate its headquarters.
Wegmans currently is involved in plans that will expand the Pittsford store and intends to build a new store on East Avenue in the city. Colleen Wegman is the 2010 chair of the United Way of Greater Rochester’s annual fund-raising campaign.
