Robert Bernard Wegman (October 14, 1918 – April 20, 2006) was a pioneer of the one-stop shopping concept. He was the son of

Wegmans Food Markets Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a privately held American supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Gates, New York, and was founded in 1916 in Rochester. As of , Wegmans has 110 stores, mostly in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions. Th ...

co-founder Walter Wegman. From 1969 until his death in 2006 at age 87, he was the chairman for Wegmans. In over a half-century under his leadership, the family grocery business grew into one of the largest private companies in the United States. In 2005, when the company ranked #1 on Fortune magazine's list of best companies to work for, Robert Wegman is known to have said:

"This is the culmination of my life's work."

He and his wife, Peggy, grew up attending Rochester

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schools. He was a major benefactor of the local high school he attended, Aquinas Institute, as well as other

education at

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. At the collegiate level, significant gifts from Robert Wegman to

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helped create the Wegmans School of Pharmacy and the Wegmans School of Nursing. Robert Wegman's granddaughter

Colleen Wegman Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a privately held American supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Gates, New York, and was founded in 1916 in Rochester. As of , Wegmans has 110 stores, mostly in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions. The ...

is the current head of Wegmans. Mr. Wegman was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2004.

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