Wegmans is Too Expensive

Whenever we came home from a weekend trip to visit family in central Virginia we would stop at Wegmans in Manassas to pick up groceries on Sunday afternoon. We would also get subs made to order for dinner. We always liked the fruit selection and it was a great place in general. We haven’t done that for a while. Since then a Wegmans opened in our northern Virginia neighborhood just a couple of miles away. So we finally went there this morning to try it out. All I can say is that we won’t be going back any time soon. The store is located in the Capitol One building. You need to park underground and take a stamped ticket. The first hour is free. We didn’t get any meat and the bill was $140. We did get two ready made dinners because we have a condo meeting this evening and a library program to watch this afternoon so wanted to save time cooking. The chocolate chip cookie box was $15! I didn’t realize it at the time. We usually spend $3.99 for the same thing at Giant. Our favorite Petit Basque cheese was $7.50 for two bites. We passed. We were also confused by the environment as well and they didn’t have the usual brands we like. They didn’t have the French bread we usually get so we mistakenly picked up sourdough. We had four bags of groceries and felt a bit cheated when we walked out. There is a new Lidl opening just down the street this summer.  We may check it out. In the meantime we will go back to Giant where things are cheaper and we are more familiar with the place and it’s close by. I didn’t think we would be in this sort of situation at this time in our lives. It’s very uncomfortable.