From Parmigiano Reggiano to Utz Cheese Balls, Wegmans Has It All

Once you step inside the Wegmans in Fairfax, you don’t know what you might find. The megastore — part blue-collar Safeway, part fussy Whole Foods, part wish-fulfillment Disneyland — offers a bewildering amount of products, from fresh-baked breads and freshly prepared meals to yoga clothes and housewares.

To food-obsessed adults, I suspect Wegmans generates a feeling they haven’t felt in years: like a kid in a candy store. One goddamn big candy store. One goddamn big candy store that knows you can’t sell only imported Belgian dark chocolate with 62 percent cocoa mass. You gotta have Ho Hos and Ding Dongs, too, baby.

Last weekend I made only my second visit to a Wegmans, this time to document many of the things one could buy there. (Such visits won’t require a trip to Fairfax in the near future, since the privately held chain has plans to open stores in Alexandria, Columbia, Germantown, Landover, and other nearby towns.)

Take a look at my Alice in Wonderland trip through Wegmans: