No. 12 Wegmans Food Markets
Training may have been a recession casualty in many places last year, but the budget for customer service courses at Wegmans ran $27.3 million, a 13% increase from the year before. That number does not include new-store orientations or extra staffing costs while workers are in class. Another perk that wasn’t trimmed for employees: tuition scholarships. In 2009, 1,423 Wegmans staffers were granted the benefit.
