{"id":11600,"date":"2019-02-21T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=11600"},"modified":"2019-02-21T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:57:31","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-february2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/02\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-february2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Colvin Oil Co<\/strong>. (5)<\/strong> announced that Don Johnson has been appointed COO. The company also said Amy Brookshier has been named VP of Wholesale and Business Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Fresh Market Inc<\/strong>. (130)<\/strong> has appointed Dwight K. Richmond as its Director of Grocery and Jay Mandrillo as Director of Bakery.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co<\/strong>. (242)<\/strong> announced Kendra Doyel has been promoted to VP of Merchandising at Ralphs. The retailer also announced its succession plans for Exec VP and CIO Christopher Hjelm, who is set to retire in August. Yael Cosset, currently the company\u2019s Chief Digital Officer, has been named his successor effective May 1 as Senior VP and CIO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lidl US, LLC (82)<\/strong> has appointed Roman Heini as Chairman of Lidl US starting March 1.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New Seasons Market (187)<\/strong> announced Forrest Hoffmaster has been named CEO, and Kristi McFarland was named Chief Strategy Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Parker Companies (19)<\/strong> has hired Brian Prevatt as its new CFO. The company also recently hired Corey McClimans as the company\u2019s new Chief Human Resources Officer, and has promoted Brandon Hofmann, formerly Chief Marketing Officer, to VP of Marketing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc<\/strong>. (276)<\/strong> has announced that its VP of Manufacturing, Jeff Stephens will retire effective May 1, 2019. Director of Manufacturing Doug Harris will be promoted to VP of Manufacturing at that time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RaceTrac Petroleum Inc<\/strong>. (70)<\/strong> announced it has promoted Max McBrayer, CFO and Chief Supply Officer, to CEO. Billy Milam, the company\u2019s President, will transition to COO, and the company has promoted Natalie Morhous to President. Robby Posener will transition to VP of RaceWay. The company has also has promoted Melanie Isbill to Chief Marketing Officer and Bart Stransky to VP of Merchandising. J. Gilmore will transition to VP of Energy Dispatch and Supply Chain. The company has promoted A.J. Siccardi to President of Metroplex Energy. With these changes, Carl Bolch Jr. will return to his role as Executive Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 SpartanNash Company (105)<\/strong> announced Lori Raya is joining the company as Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer, taking over from Larry Pierce, who is retiring.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Thorntons Inc<\/strong>. (70)<\/strong> announced Simon Richards as its new CEO.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Buc-ee’s Ltd<\/strong>. will soon open its first store outside of Texas, in Robertsdale, Alabama.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Earth Fare Healthy Supermarkets<\/strong> has recently opened its 50th location in Charlotte, NC. The retailer plans to open another 50 locations across the country during the next five years.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Love\u2019s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced it will open more than 40 new locations in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rutter’s Holdings Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first store in the state of Maryland.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sobeys Inc<\/strong>. expects to open 12 FreshCo locations during 2019 in British Columbia and Manitoba.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Speedway LLC<\/strong> announced customers can now use Apple Pay to checkout at all of its stores nationwide.<\/p>\n

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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 490 companies in the Supermarket, Grocery, & Convenience Stores PLUS Database, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 Colvin Oil Co. (5) announced that Don Johnson has been appointed COO. The company also said Amy Brookshier has been named VP of Wholesale and Business Development. \u2022 The Fresh Market Inc. (130) has appointed Dwight K. Richmond as its Director of Grocery and Jay Mandrillo as Director of Bakery. \u2022 The… Continue reading DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 February 2019<\/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":[16],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-11600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grocery-convenience","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600","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=11600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}