Wegmans Food and Pharmacy

Really like it here. The veggies and fruits are so fresh, various choices of meat. Also find my favorite seaweed salad! There are many wine choices too. Amazing market.

This review is for the wine and spirits shop. I just have to say WOW! Not only do they have an excellent selection the staff is beyond helpful. I love that the guys who work in the beer section are actually beer fans.
The staff helped me get my hands on two really special beers — awesome!!! Seriously if you need help selecting a beer or wine this staff has got to be your go to.

This store is a good substitute for those of us who try to avoid WFM. This is a mostly conventional grocery store, but they are constantly enlarging their natural and organic selection. Fresh food departments here are very good, better than most national chains. The seafood, bakery, and produce departments are excellent. You will find very fresh local seafood and produce here when in season. You will not find all the major brands of packaged and or processed foods, but instead more of Wegmans private label which is usually very good. I highly recommend the liquor store. The selection is not huge but is comprehensive, and the prices are the lowest in the area.

This is a great grocery store. The fresh breads are much better than even the bread bakery in town, and they have a wide variety of beautiful produce. Their selection of crunchy-​lefty foods is excellent and the prices for those things are usually better than those of Whole Foods. Since much of my food is made from fresh fruits and vegetables, I think the produce section is the biggest draw for me and the element that most drives the five-​star rating.
They do not always win on price. The cheese prices are better at Trader Joe’s (although the selection is better at Wegmans), and the wine/​spirits prices are better at Joe Canal’s. For olive oil (price and quality), go with Whole Foods. Dried fruit, nuts and maple syrup all go to Trader Joe’s as well. That said, I find myself going to Wegmans far more often than any of the other grocery stores.
I will update when I try their pharmacy, which for whatever reason I’ve never used in my five years in Princeton.

I’m going to straight up put it out there and say this is the BEST grocery store in the Princeton/​West Windsor/​Lawrence area. Apparently thousands of other folks agree with me: come here on the weekend and you have found yourself a veritable human zoo. Have you ever encountered bumper-​to-​bumper grocery cart traffic (okay, if you have enjoyed city life, you have, but this is the ‘BURBS!)? Well, if you can’t take the kids to Seaside for bumper cars, bring them here for bumper carts…
That said, truly the best pricing and selection in the area. Take the 30 seconds to get a Wegmans card — the savings is great. Pricing for all products is excellent, and their store brand is of high quality.
Oh yes, and there’s the fact that this location has an attached liquor store as well. Prices are very fair and if you like craft beer like me, the selection is very good (though I would say Joe Canal’s is a touch better if you’re in the area anyway).
Produce is always fresh and I’ve been very happy with the offerings. Just don’t drift too far deep to the right: you may end up near the delectable baked goods.
In terms of meat, I think their selection is very good, but if you’re after grass fed ground beef, I would probably choose Whole Foods up the road for that. Though Wegmans’ offerings are good, Whole CHECK does win in that department.
Love this store. Pro tip if you can stomach it: come at 6−7am on a weekday (before work if you can). There’s no wait and you can zoom through the store.

I frequent the Wegman’s in Manalapan but love the Princeton better. Here the staff is much for helpful and their prepared foods are fresher. When I go to the Manalapan store, if I have a question, most are helpful but there’s a few crabby eggs there. They roll their eyes and act like I’m bothering them. I’ve tried their prepared foods at Manalapan and I always feel they are a bit dry. I tried Princeton’s prepared food and actually found it moist! Wonderful!
Princeton is a bigger store and the aisles have a better flow to it.

I love Wegmans but I’m subtracting one star because it isn’t open 24 hours like Wegmans stores in their hometown of Rochester, New York, which is where I’m from. The store is close to a friend’s apartment, which she, a fellow Rochestarian, could not be more happy about since she just moved to the area. This store seems to maintain the Wegmans quality standard that is the reason people love it.
A bonus for me is that Mallomars are a lot cheaper in this area. They are $ 4.49 in Rochester and $ 2.99 here. I have my friend bring me a couple boxes when she comes back to Rochester.

Hard to believe that a supermarket can bring the poet out in so many people!
Yet, Wegman’s is not just a huge market; it is an EXPERIENCE. The most amazing aspect is to the right as you enter, where it is set up like a multitude of small shops offering a very personalized adventure. Bakery. Deli, Fruit stand. Cheese shop. Café. Asian fusion house. You name it. They do it.
The rest of the store is recognizable as a large grocery with diversity and good price, but it is not likely to bring the laureate out in you, unless saving money moves your soul. No. It is the opportunity to browse, dine and then shop, all in one place that makes the magic happen.
It works because it provides what a trip to a village market did in yesteryear — a Come One, Come All market day in the town square, where you can actually enjoy yourself, feed yourself and family, and secure the basic necessities; all in one place, at the same time, and in a comfortable environment.
All they need do is attach living quarters, and the village would be complete.