As a local guide on Google I consider it my duty to travel the world and leave a review wherever I go so as to help my fellow man who stops in after me. If I consider all the local grocery stores Wegmans takes the top place for Ithaca, NY. You won't find a better grocery store anywhere in this area. Why is it the best food store to shop at? The best way to describe it is to say it is a "Premium Grocery Shopping Experience". It's like the Mercedes of grocery stores except without the top of the world price tag for the most part as deals are everywhere. To put it in a few words "you get what you pay for". Yes you do pay a bit more for certain products but you pay more for the experience, the atmosphere, and the selection. Just look at the selection of cheese, it's cheese heaven here. If you go into Wegmans you get to choose from a selection that other grocery stores pale in comparison too. It doesn't feel like shopping in a warehouse like it feels like in Walmart as the atmosphere is completely different. Signs are constantly changed and decorations are changed for every season. All the small details are payed attention too and this is the reason why you have to sometimes pay more for certain groceries, but not all of them as there are plenty of deals to be found here. The Ithaca Wegmans is one of the bigger Wegmans locations that they offer. And I do see Wegmans expending across the USA as more and more people get to experience how different shopping here is. Now if you decide to enter the doors of the Ithaca Wegmans there are a few places that need special attention. Those places are: the cheese isles, the bakery, and the prepared foods sections. These are the more premium and fancy parts of the store that Wegmans dedicates a lot of attention and money towards. And if you go to them you will see why this is the case. You have to experience it for yourself to truly see what the fuss is about. Once you do you will see why it is such a different grocery store from Walmart, Tops, Target, and the others. Thanks for reading my review and i hope it helped someone out!