Wegmanswill open its newest Maryland store on Sept. 15 in Germantown with 600 employees.

The supermarket will carry 70,000 products, including 700 produce items, prepared foods, 300 imported and domestic cheeses, sushi and whole fish delivered daily and cut to order. It will feature vegetable and fruit stations and a shellfish steaming station.

 The grocery store will be the seventh in Maryland for Wegmans, an 81-store chain with stores in New York, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts. The Germantown store will be managed by a 25-year Wegmans veteran, Phil Quattrini.

Other area locations include Hunt Valley, Columbia, Abingdon, Gambrills, Frederick and Lanham.

 lorraine.mirabella@baltsun.com