Wegmans Taps Into Bar Business

No karaoke nights are offered, and no happy hours. Pour-your-heart-out talks with the barkeep? None of those either.

“We don’t ever really get any personal stuff, other than ‘I’m going to change my grocery list,’ ” said Heather Reilly.

And though her job involves mixing cocktails and serving up brews, don’t call her a bartender. Reilly’s a “service team member.”

At The Pub inside the Wegmans supermarket in Collegeville, a social experiment of sorts is in progress, at the point where one of life’s most mundane chores intersects with something that could go a long way toward blunting its misery: alcohol.

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