The Market Report

Today's store tour is a Wegmans on the other end of town from yesterday's Tops . I have mentioned this, but I don't love Wegmans. That said, this store is still pretty great. I just find Tops to be a better supermarket, and I like for instance that their baked goods tend to have fewer preservatives and additives. (Yes, I'm looking at you, chocolate chip cookies.) At over 120,000 square feet, this location is far larger than the Tops. As is standard in most Wegmans, you enter to a wide produce aisle. Bakery and meat/seafood line the left side, with deli/prepared foods on the right side. Grocery aisles continue to the left of bakery and seafood, with dairy and meat on the back wall. Pharmacy is located in an island in the grocery aisles. Although Wegmans has been using substantially the same decor for quite a while now, it is very attractive decor. And the facilities are quite nice. Beautiful wide produce aisle. Once again, I was here at nighttime, so y...

Jumping into our first store tour for the Finger Lakes group! Canandaigua, NY is home to two major supermarkets, this Tops and a Wegmans at the other end of town (along with an awesome former ACME ). Now I've mentioned that I am not a fan of Wegmans. My first two times in Canandaigua, I went down to the Wegmans but the third I decided to check out the Tops instead. What a good decision! As we'll see, the decor inside is not the most modern here. In fact, it's probably over 15 years old. It looks to date from the days when Tops was owned by Ahold due to the decor's similarities to the Giant Food decor. For an idea of the layout here, it's pretty standard Ahold. Floral in front right corner, with produce lining the first aisle, deli/prepared foods and seafood at the back of the first aisle, meat on the back wall, dairy in the last aisle, bakery in the front left corner. Customer service on the front wall. I don't believe this store has a pharmacy....