Robert Wegman was a pioneer of the one-stop shopping concept. He was the son of Wegmans Food Markets

Wegmans Food Markets

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a family-owned U.S. regional supermarket chain headquartered in Gates, New York, near Rochester. Wegmans has more than 75 stores spread across the mid-Atlantic region, in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts...

 co-founder Walter Wegman. Until his death in 2006 at age 87, he was the chairperson 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 was a major benefactor of the local high school he attended, Aquinas Institute

Aquinas Institute

The Aquinas Institute is a co educational catholic school Rochester, New York established in 1902. Aquinas Institute was founded as an all boys christian academy, but became an co-educational school in 1982. It is located within City of Rochester. It has stood at its current location on Dewey...

, as well as other Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 education at Niagara University

Niagara University

Niagara University is a Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition, located in the Town of Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. Originally founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1856 as Our Lady of Angels Seminary, it became Niagara University in 1883. The University is still run by...

. At the collegiate level, significant gifts from Robert Wegman to St. John Fisher College helped create the Wegmans School of Pharmacy and the Wegmans School of Nursing.

Robert Wegman's son Danny Wegman is the current head of Wegmans.

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