r/wegmans • u/IslandBusy1165 • 9h ago
Wegman’s bakery is wildly overpriced and aggressively mediocre
I know the prices of all prepared foods there have become insane but the price gouging of the baked goods is next level. There are often special sale prices running on a big “family pack” of certain medium sized cookies so you can get a lot of those for $7.99 but their cookies are way too mediocre (dry, flavorless and sorta hard but not in a crispy way) for me to personally want that many. Most cookies are sold in various smaller sized pack options, and they’re ridiculously overpriced. I saw their chocolate cookies, for example, sold as pairs in baggies, for $6.99. They’re about medium to slightly large but their texture looks flat and the cookies look dry. They want $7 for 2 cookies that look so bad I’d only eat one for free or if my craving is so desperate. Needless to say I always leave without a single cookie, unless I get a 5 pack of small GF cookies for, let’s say, $6.99 because that’s reasonably priced especially for a specialty item and my dad is GF. (Speaking of those cookies I think they’re $7.99 now which I’m somewhat less amenable to considering cranberry oatmeal GF cookies are foolproof to make and ingredients are cheap.)
Meanwhile at ShopRite I can always get better cookies at very reasonable prices. My favorite are the walnut chocolate chip which are smaller and sold in small-ish packs for about $1 per cookie. The macadamia white chocolate pecan are good too (same price). My town’s ShopRite doesn’t sell those so I only get them whenever I food shop with my mom, but this time I decided to get this dozen-pack of chocolate chip cookies since they’re only $5.99, look better than Wegmans’ and cost 50 cents per cookie rather than $3.50 per cookie. They’re not my favorite cookie, or even favorite chocolate chip cookie, but I know they’ll be satisfactory and Wegmans outraged me so much that I want to support ShopRite’s baked goods for being reasonable toward us consumers unlike its (once) competitor, Wegmans, just to spite Wegmans.
I could get 2-3 (notoriously expensive) Pignoli cookies from a small business bakery for the price Wegmans is trying to sell their pair of chocolate chip cookies.
Wegmans has plummeted so much I now only go when I need to use the pharmacy cause I do like to have a reason to pop in there and really like its pharmacy. It’s becoming less clear to me that the choice to use Wegmans pharmacy is even worthwhile though since they have nothing I want but can’t get elsewhere for a better price anymore. Anyway I might stop going and return to my ShopRite roots. Even Stop n Shop is better (for produce, novelty goods and pricing).