Weis Markets, Inc., doing business as Weis and stylized as weis, is an American food retailer headquartered in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. It currently operates 200 stores with over 23,000 employees in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, and Delaware. A former Pennsylvania jewelry retailer, David Weis, with a chain of department stores in the 70s and 80s, is unaffiliated with the Weis Markets brand, the popular perception that David Weis was an upscale version of Weis Markets is an urban myth, as the similar name is a mere coincidence, the jewelry retailer was named after its founder, David Weis. Wikipedia