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Wegmans Names Opening Date For Its First NYC Store
Grab your shopping bags and clear out your pantry. Wegmans is opening soon.
FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — Wegmans announced the opening date this week for its first New York City location at the Brooklyn Navy Yards.
The 74,000-square foot grocery store on Flushing Avenue and Admirals Row will open for business on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 7 a.m., store owners announced.
The Brooklyn Wegmans will sell 60,000 products including more than 4,000 organic product, 300 varieties of cheese, and a full bar operating on the mezzanine, the company announced.
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The company is still looking to hire more than 150 full-time employees — including prep, line, and lead cooks as well as customer service representatives — and will employ 500 people in total, according to a press release.
Wegmans Food Markets is a 99-store supermarket chain with locations in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts, according to the company website.
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Store owners first filed permits to build out the massive Brooklyn Navy Yard grocery store in 2016, Patch reported at the time.
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