Wegmans Foods Markets to hit store milestone as it enters a new state

Wegmans Food Markets continues to expand its reach.

The family-owned grocer will enter it seventh state — North Carolina— on September 29, with the opening of a 104,000-sq.-ft. supermarket at the Midtown East Shopping Center in Raleigh. It will be Wegmans 100th store. (The company has plans for five additional stores in the Raleigh-Durham area.)

On Oct. 27, Wegmans will open its first store in New York City, a 74,000-sq.-ft. location in the Admirals Row development of Brooklyn. The site is the former home of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Currently, Wegmans operates 99 stores across New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia.