Wegmans Food Markets Inc. has released its 2025 Impact Report, sharing the various ways the company makes a difference for its customers, communities and employees. The company opened three new stores in 2025, creating approximately 1,400 permanent jobs and hundreds of temporary construction positions.

The company invests approximately $100 million annually in roughly 700 store upgrade projects.

Wegmans also sources products from 400 family farms and local suppliers to provide customers with a variety of local goods including produce, meat and cheeses. 

In Rochester, NY, Wegmans employs over 11,000 people and has invested over $160 million in education, development and workforce training programs since 1982. Wegmans Work Scholarship program boasts a nearly 100 percent graduation rate with over 5,000 participants since 1987.

Last year Wegmans contributed $96.3 million to its communities through corporate gifts and 36.8 million pounds of food donations, employee donations and customer scan campaigns.

Through customer support and in-store donations, Wegmans donates over 30 million meals to local neighbors each year. In 2025, the annual Check Out Hunger campaign raised nearly $3.1 million.

In 2025, Wegmans employees responded to more than 30,500 donation requests and volunteered over 10,500 hours to support food banks and community organizations.

As far as sustainability is concerned, Wegmans’ Zero Waste initiative began in 2016 as a single store pilot with a goal of diverting waste from landfills through food donations, composting and recycling. The program rolled out companywide by 2021 and achieved an average companywide recycling rate of nearly 89 percent in 2025. 

The company also collaborates with partners like Natural Upcycling to convert food waste into valuable resources and with CRDC Materials to recycle agricultural plastics into concrete block ingredients, enhancing waste diversion efforts.