Wegmans To Host Hiring Event For New Norwalk Store, Set To Open In 2025

Business & Tech

Wegmans To Host Hiring Event For New Norwalk Store, Set To Open In 2025 As customers await the opening of CT's first Wegmans store in Norwalk next year, the company will host a hiring event in the city Tuesday.

NORWALK, CT — As eager customers await the opening of Connecticut's very first Wegmans store in Norwalk next year, the company will host a hiring event in the city Tuesday.

The open interview hiring event will be held at the Wegmans Norwalk Hiring Office, located at 40 Richards Avenue, Suite 220, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Wegmans Norwalk Store Manager Emily Reynolds confirmed Monday the new store and its parking garage are still on track to open at 675 Connecticut Avenue in summer 2025.

"While the opening is still months away, we've made some great connections in the community while participating in events including Oyster Fest and the United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut's Community Impact Breakfast," Reynolds said to Patch. "This is just the beginning of our community outreach, and we look forward to meeting more neighbors as we prepare the store for opening."

When the 92,000 square-foot Norwalk supermarket opens, Wegmans expects to employ approximately 500 people, most of whom will be new to the company and hired locally, according to additional press materials provided by Wegmans.

Wegmans seeks to immediately fill hundreds of full and part-time positions for its new Norwalk store during Tuesday's event.

Available positions include entry level management and food service roles in culinary and perishable departments.

Job seekers are encouraged to fill out an application online in advance of the event through this link , however interviews will also be provided to walk-in applicants the day of the event, according to Wegmans.

Further information is available by calling the hiring office at 203-299-3333.

"We've already hired many amazing candidates who are busy training and preparing for our opening next summer," Reynolds said in an additional statement. "We're excited to continue building our team and look forward to hiring more people who are passionate about food and looking for a place they can grow their career."

Wegmans also offers an employee scholarship program available to both full-time and part-time employees.

In August, Norwalk's chief of economic and community development, Jessica Vonashek, said the city was thrilled Wegmans will be hiring hundreds of employees at the Norwalk store and encouraged interested applicants to apply.

"We are very pleased to be the first home of Wegmans in the state of Connecticut," Vonashek said to Patch. "Companies like Wegmans spend a lot of time and effort researching their markets and it is clear that Norwalk was their target location."

Vonashek also noted Norwalk continues to attract new residents, helping to "grow our strong workforce and vibrant community" and make the city a regional destination.

"We believe our growing population, local road network, world-class transit options, redevelopment opportunities, and access to the highway makes us attractive to large national retailers," Vonashek said. "In addition, our housing stock, education system and local amenities like our parks and beaches are attractive to employers and their employees. Norwalk has it all."

Wegmans operates over 100 stores along the East Coast and has more than 53,000 employees chain-wide, according to the company.

In addition to Norwalk, Wegmans is set to open new locations in New York and Maryland in 2025.

A planned Wegmans supermarket in Norwalk was first announced back in March 2022. At the time of the announcement, a portion of the property was occupied by an office complex owned by MBI, Inc., which later moved its operations to a new office space on Main Avenue.

Once completed, Wegmans will join a roster of stores offering grocery items in the Connecticut Avenue area that includes ShopRite, Costco and one of the city's two Stop & Shop stores.

Stew Leonard's, the city's other large-scale grocery store, is located further away from the competition on Westport Avenue.

A Walmart store on Connecticut Avenue that offered grocery items closed for good in November . A Target store is planned to open in its place , however an opening date has not been announced.