Wegmans opens its 1st Delaware store

Wegmans on Wednesday opened its first store in Delaware, an 84,000-square-foot market in Wilmington.

The new store includes indoor and outdoor seating for 120 shoppers, more than 550 parking spots, 13 full-service checkout lanes and 20 self-checkout kiosks around the supermarket. It employs about 450 workers.

The Wilmington Wegmans, like all of the Rochester, New York-based regional grocer’s locations, sells a wide variety of prepared foods, such as fresh sushi and poke bowls, sandwiches, salads, pizza, burgers, coffee, soup and more.

Wegmans operates more than 100 grocery stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and now, Delaware.

The Wilmington store also features an expansive cheese shop, a diverse selection of international foods, an in-house bakery and deli, and a catering department. Customers can have their orders delivered or pick them up curbside.

The new market is part of a larger Wilmington development that includes residential, office and retail buildings.

In announcing the Wilmington location, Wegmans said it would feel like a European open-air market that offers an “abundance of choice, the best ingredients, thousands of organic options, restaurant-quality prepared food and consistent low prices.”

Wegmans has given more than $25,000 to the Wilmington community through donations and event sponsorships, the company said.

In July, Wegmans opened its first store in Washington, D.C. The grocer is slated to open a new store in Reston, Virginia, early next year.