Fancy-shmancy supermarket to move into Chestnut Hill

I went to school in Rochester, NY. We had a Wegmans near our campus...it was shoved into the corner of a bigger strip mall. It was essentially where everyone on campus went to get groceries because the on-campus option was so over-priced it was only for emergencies. For 4 years, I thought of Wegmans the way I think of Shaw's today: a grocery store, that's it.

Then I moved away and they started opening them out wider than upstate New York and each opening appeared to be bigger than the last. Places were DYING to have a "Super Wegmans" located in their communities after hearing all the buzz from afar at the last opening. They've finally brought the traveling circus to Boston's doorsteps and it's the same over-hyped story all over again. I don't exactly get it, to be honest. It's where I got groceries in college, so it's about as fancy as a Stop'N'Shop to me (actually the Stop'n'Shop has the scanners to carry through the store and the last Wegmans I was in (in Buffalo) didn't have that!).

So, I think they're great in so much as they pay their workers well and give them good benefits as supermarkets and large corporations go. I like the quality of their deli, fish, and prepped foods better than any other non-neighborhood grocer I've probably ever been in. But in the end, it's a supermarket and not exactly all that fancy or schmancy to me.

EDIT: It also appears that the Wegmans I knew was one of their first...and now it's a parking lot:

In March 2003, Wegmans sent a representative to the Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood meeting who discussed changes to their Mount Hope store: they planned to upgrade it as it was one of the first stores they ever built. The plans were wonderful and would have been a great boost to the neighborhood. However, in September 2003, after starting renovations, declared they were closing the store. The reasons revolved around money: either the store wasn't profitable enough, or the renovations were too costly. Although the neighborhood suffered from the lack of a grocery store, the building eventually sold to the University of Rochester Medical Center and was converted to a parking lot in December 2005.