Weis Markets, Inc. (WMK)
Supermarkets in seven states. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025, filed March 12, 2026. Ranked 14 of the 39 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
22,000
Leading staffing pattern
Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202723%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203023%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 12%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
A supermarket chain whose filing states its total, its hourly share and its states but nothing by kind of location, so one retail pattern carries it.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 20% now, 23% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 23% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 23% desk work, 20% people work and 57% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 12% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
22,000 employees as of December 27, 2025 (stated). The filing describes 202 retail stores and over 22,000 employees located in Pennsylvania and six surrounding states: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and West Virginia.
The filing: “The Company currently employs over 22,000 full-time and part-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only) | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes a conventional supermarket chain of 202 stores with over 22,000 full-time and part-time employees, 94% of them hourly; the pharmacies inside the stores, the distribution center and the dairy and ice cream plants count no employees of their own and fold in under rule 5. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Over 22,000 full-time and part-time employees; approximately 94% are paid an hourly wage; 202 stores in Pennsylvania and six surrounding states. No part-time or union count is stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Kroger (KR, 403,000 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- Albertsons (ACI, 280,000 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
- Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (SFM, 36,000 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
- Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA, 25,551 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one AI sentence is a risk factor: the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies may intensify its cybersecurity risks.
- “The techniques and sophistication used in breach information technology systems and the rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies may intensify the Company's cybersecurity risks.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | 22,000 | 2026-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-28 | 22,000 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-30 | 23,000 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 23,000 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-25 | 24,000 | 2022-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-26 | 24,000 | 2021-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-28 | 23,000 | 2020-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-29 | 23,000 | 2019-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-30 | 23,000 | 2018-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 23,000 | 2017-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-26 | 19,000 | 2016-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-27 | not read | 2015-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-28 | 17,900 | 2014-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-29 | 17,400 | 2013-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 17,400 | 2012-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-25 | not read | 2011-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-26 | not read | 2010-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-27 | not read | 2009-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | not read | 2008-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-30 | not read | 2007-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | not read | 2006-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-25 | not read | 2005-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-27 | not read | 2004-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-28 | not read | 2003-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-29 | 19,000 | 2002-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-30 | 20,700 | 2001-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-25 | 20,100 | 2000-03-24 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-26 | 19,500 | 1999-03-10 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-27 | 18,600 | 1998-03-20 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-28 | 18,400 | 1997-03-14 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-30 | 16,500 | 1996-03-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 16,500 | 1995-04-03 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-25 | 15,000 | 1994-03-25 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- One pattern by description (c); the filing counts no employees by store, distribution or manufacturing.
- The filing states the count as over 22,000, read as 22,000.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000105418-26-000024, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
The report on Weis Markets, Inc., $29
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Questions about this company
- How much of Weis Markets, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Weis Markets, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Weis Markets, Inc. employ?
- 22,000 as of December 27, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Weis Markets, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only); by those patterns the work is about 23% desk work, 20% people work and 57% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Weis Markets, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 1 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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