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The retail footprint of a popular American supermarket chain will grow this year and afterwards, thanks in part to customer demand.
Wegmans Food Markets will have a location opening in Rockville, Maryland next week and another launch in Norwalk, Connecticut in July.
According to the company, the store in Norwalk, planned to debut on July 23, will mark the first location of Wegmans in the constitutional state.
As soon as those locations officially go live, they will take the total number of Wegmans stores that the company has launched this year for three, after they have already opened a Wegmans in Lake Grove, New York in February.
A delivery person takes Wegmans bags on an outdoor store in New York, NY on August 8, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty images)
The openings contribute to the more than 110 stores that Wegmans already have on the east coast in states, including New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Delaware, as well as the District of Columbia.
Draw at the main entrance of a Wegmans -Supermarkt in Manhattan on March 31, 2025. (Erik McGregor/Lightrocket via Getty images)
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Wegmans has more shop openings in the pipeline.
Holly Springs, a city that is also in North Carolina, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania can also expect that Wegmans will bring a store to their areas in the future, according to the “Future Store Locations” page on the website of the chain.
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The supermarket chain announced for the first time plans for the location in the Pittsburgh area in mid-January. That Wegmans Store will be the “first access to the Pittsburgh region” and is expected to be around 115,000 square feet within a development for mixed use, according to a press release.
“We have received thousands of requests for a Wegmans in the Pittsburgh region since opening our first Pennsylvania store more than 30 years ago,” said Wegmans Vice president of real estate and store planning than Aachen. “We are delighted to finally have found the right location to bring Wegmans to the Pittsburgh area.”
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The company based in Rochester, New York, which competes with other supermarket chains and retailers offering groceries, was founded in 1916 by the brothers Walter and John Wegman.
People shop in the Wegmans Astor Place -Supermarkt on October 28, 2023 in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty images)
