{"id":12297,"date":"2019-05-29T15:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12297"},"modified":"2019-05-29T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:01:55","slug":"datatrac-discount-specialty-stores-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/05\/datatrac-discount-specialty-stores-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Discount and Specialty Stores \u2013 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022\u00a0Bed Bath & Beyond Inc<\/strong>. (66)<\/strong> announced that Co-Founders and Co-Chairmen Warren Eisenberg and Leonard Feinstein will retire. The retailer named Patrick Gaston as Chairman. The company also announced its CEO Steven Temares has stepped down. Mary Winston was named Interim CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. (216)<\/strong> announced Annie Walker will become VP of Merchandise Operations for Apparel. Julie Barber will take over the VP\/DMM of OTC role. The company also said Sara Mortimore has joined as VP of Global Food Safety Compliance.<\/p>\n

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Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0PetSmart Inc<\/strong>.\u2019s<\/strong> online pet store Chewy.com is preparing for an initial public offering.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. has opened its 12th Amazon Go store. It is the company\u2019s first in New York City, and the first to accept cash.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Indigo Books & Music Inc<\/strong>. announced it will test a new retail model that reimagines its stores as a \u201ccultural department store.\u201d The concept will showcase items ranging from home goods to apparel in addition to literature. The company also plans to grow in the United States with a rollout of stores in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0PETCO Animal Supplies Inc<\/strong>. has opened an upscale \u201cpet food kitchen\u201d at its flagship in Manhattan\u2019s Union Square where shoppers can purchase fresh, human-grade meals for their pets. Petco is launching the initiative with pet food company JustFoodForDogs, which has opened freestanding pet kitchens in California and Seattle, with additional sites under construction in Boston and Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has launched its first-ever online pet pharmacy, WalmartPetRx.com. The retailer, which currently operates 21 vet clinics in its stores across six states, plans to expand the total to 100 during the next 12 months.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. announced it is opening a new office in downtown Denver, CO. The 98,000 sq. ft. of space will accommodate 400 new jobs it is creating in the metro area.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fred\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. said it will close an additional 104 underperforming locations in the Southeast by the end of June.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Guitar Center Inc<\/strong>. opened a 19,000 sq. ft. store in Pearl City, HI. It is the first store for the retailer in Hawaii and the third of six planned openings for 2019. The openings include the brand\u2019s first store in Alaska.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Party City Holdco Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to close about 45 of its locations in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sugarfina, LLC<\/strong> has announced plans to roll out 26 new locations in Mexico over the next five years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Canada Inc<\/strong>. plans to invest more $200 million in its store network during the next 12 months, with a focus on remodeling 31 stores across the country.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has announced plans to refresh and expand 13 of its stores in New Jersey during 2019.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has launched its free NextDay delivery in Phoenix and Las Vegas, with plans to expand to Southern California next. There is no membership fee for the service, but there is a minimum purchase requirement of $35. The company plans to reach 75 percent of the country with NextDay delivery by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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Green Initiatives<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has entered into an agreement for C2 Energy Capital LLC to provide solar power at 46 stores in Arizona, New Jersey, Maryland, California and Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (66) announced that Co-Founders and Co-Chairmen Warren Eisenberg and Leonard Feinstein will retire. The retailer named Patrick Gaston as Chairman. The company also announced its CEO Steven Temares has stepped down. Mary Winston was named Interim CEO. \u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc. (216) announced Annie Walker will become VP of… Continue reading DATATRAC: Discount and Specialty Stores \u2013 May 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":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12297","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\/12297","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=12297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}