BUFFALO, N.Y. — With the April 8 total solar eclipse fast approaching, Wegmans announced Thursday that it didn't want its own employees to miss the rare event.
Wegmans announced that stores located in the path of totality of the eclipse will close for 30 minutes. This includes 11 stores here in Buffalo, which will close their doors from 3 to 3:30 p.m. that day, to give employees an opportunity to see the eclipse.
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"The opportunity to experience a total solar eclipse comes once in a lifetime, and we don't want our employees to miss out,” Wegmans regional manager Patrick Bourcy said in a statement, announcing the news.
"We appreciate all that our employees do to help our customers prepare for and enjoy events like this, and in return, we welcome the opportunity to make this a celebratory and memorable occasion for them."
The list of locations where stores will temporarily close include:
Buffalo area
- Alberta Drive
- Amherst Street
- Dick Road
- Losson Road
- McKinley
- Military Road
- Niagara Falls Boulevard
- Sheridan Drive
- Transit Road
Other locations in Western New York
- Jamestown
Rochester region
- Brockport
- Calkins Road
- Chili-Paul
- East Avenue
- Eastway
- Fairport
- Holt Road
- Irondequoit
- Latta Road
- Lyell Avenue
- Marketplace
- Mt. Read
- Penfield
- Perinton
- Pittsford
- Ridge-Culver
- Ridgemont
Finger Lakes region
- Auburn
- Canandaigua
- Geneseo
- Geneva
- Ithaca
- Newark
Southern Tier region
- Corning
- Elmira
- Hornell
- Johnson City
Syracuse region
- Cicero
- Dewitt
- Fairmount
- Great Northern
- James Street
- John Glenn
- Onondaga
- Taft Road
Erie, Pa.
- Erie Peach St.
- Erie West