Proposal for Wegmans Study

For this project, i plan to look at some of the products of Wegmans. My aim is to find out exactly what the effect on the community and/or local economy is with Wegmans selling these products. My particular interest is in meat and produce. Are these things brought in locally? How much is shipped from some weird far off place just to keep prices down? If not much produce or meat is brought in from local "little guys", then what affect does Wegmans have on the little guys? Do Wegmans produce or meat sales vary in places where there is ready access to many local farmers or do people do people simply make their one stop and buy everything they need? These questions are important to understand part of the bigger Wegmans picture: the company seems nearly infallible on the surface, but maybe deeper down there are some not so obvious ways in which wegmans can actually hurt a local community. only research will show whether or not Wegmans is the wonderful company so many people make it out to be or if it is like a giant economic vacuum in the communities in which it resides.