Wegmans employees that maintain the appearance and safety of the parking lot, vestibule and landscaped areas; gather shopping carts, and lend a “helping hand” by walking customers to their vehicles, and helping them
load there groceries into the vehicle. Most of them are young
men in their teens and twenties. You can tell them apart from other employees by their distinctive highlighter neon green shirts that say “Helping Hands” on them, and the shorts that they are allowed to wear during
late Spring,
summer, and early Fall. most other Wegmans employees are never allowed to wear shorts. Helping Hands used to wear traffic
cone orange shirts.
They are the
mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys of Wegmans, and will go out and do their job in both sweltering heat and sub-zero temperatures. They are often treated as the wiping boy of the store, under appreciated by management, and the job can be quite physically intensive, but can also be much more laidback and low-
key than a lot of other jobs at Wegmans, especially on
slow days, and you’re free to move around unlike cashiers who have to stand in one spot.
While I was cashing out, the cashier was so very kind and offered helping hands since she saw my hands were full with a baby, and it was still pouring. They took my cart full of bagged groceries in the store while I borrowed one of their umbrellas to get
us into the
car, almost without getting
wet! I drove my
car up to the front of the store, and a Helping Hands employee packed up my car for me!
