{"id":10979,"date":"2018-09-14T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2018-09-14T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:42:20","slug":"datatrac-discount-specialty-stores-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/09\/datatrac-discount-specialty-stores-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Discount and Specialty Stores \u2013 September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 99 Cents Only Stores (78)<\/strong> announced it has appointed Ashok Walia as CFO. He will succeed Felicia Thornton, who will continue in her position as Vice Chairman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Big Lots Stores Inc<\/strong>. <strong>(102)<\/strong> has named Bruce K. Thorn as the company\u2019s new President and CEO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Five Below Inc<\/strong>.<strong> (73)<\/strong> announced that Rob Feuerman has joined the company in the newly created position of CEO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 It\u2019Sugar (30)<\/strong> announced it has named Mark Davis as CFO and COO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Lindt Chocolatier<\/strong> <strong>(27) <\/strong>announced Andreas Pfluger, CEO, will retire at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>.<strong> (246)<\/strong> announced its Exec VP of Consumables and Health and Wellness, Marybeth Hays, will leave the company in January 2019. Following her exit, Senior VP Latriece Watkins, will take responsibility for the consumables business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. announced it has opened another Amazon Go location, its third in Seattle, WA. The company recently confirmed plans to open an Amazon Go store in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Five Below Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its 700th store, and is on track to open 125 new stores this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Sam\u2019s Club<\/strong> announced it plans to transition a location it closed earlier this year in Matteson, IL, into an e-commerce fulfillment center.<\/p>\n<p><em>Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 209 companies in the Discount, Dollar, &amp; Specialty Stores PLUS Database, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 99 Cents Only Stores (78) announced it has appointed Ashok Walia as CFO. He will succeed Felicia Thornton, who will continue in her position as Vice Chairman. \u2022 Big Lots Stores Inc. (102) has named Bruce K. Thorn as the company\u2019s new President and CEO. \u2022 Five Below Inc. (73) announced that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/09\/datatrac-discount-specialty-stores-september-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Discount and Specialty Stores \u2013 September 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discount-specialty","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}