New England Market Watch: Waiting for the Arrival of Wegmans in Westwood, Mass.
Article by Eric H. at VisitingNewEngland.com Photo from Wegmans Online Media Photo Gallery As a child growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most memorable times was making our yearly trip in April to see our salt-of-the-earth, fun-loving relatives in Rochester, N.Y. The second most memorable aspect of the trip was going to Rochester-based Wegmans supermarket chain in Penfield, N.Y., a beautiful suburb of Rochester. Wegmans always seemed to be superior to our markets back home, offering a visionary open-market look that looked like a futuristic, over sized restaurant; delicious jelly donuts, better than our donut shops and bakeries could ever make; a cheese shop that was a wonderland to us cheese fans; the Rochester-born white hot dogs (combination of uncured and unsmoked pork, beef, and veal and containing mustard and unspecified other spices), a novelty that also tasted great; and laser scanning which was another novelty that would later show up at other supermarkets. Service...