{"id":12531,"date":"2019-07-24T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:10:57","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/07\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022\u00a0Delek US Holdings, Inc. (90)<\/strong> announced Daryl Schofield will join the company as Exec VP of Business Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Empire Petroleum Partners (8)<\/strong> has appointed Rick Golman as its new CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fresh Thyme Farmers Market (109)<\/strong> has promoted Dean Little to COO. In other appointments, Tod Pepin was named Chief Merchandising Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kum & Go LLC (78)<\/strong> announced Erin C. Kuhl has joined the company as CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Love\u2019s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. (105)<\/strong> has hired Spencer Haines as its new CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Marathon Petroleum Corporation (53)<\/strong> announced Donald Templin has been appointed Exec VP and CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Parkland Fuel Corporation (47)<\/strong> has appointed Dave Jardine as its CFO, and Dan Dunstan as its VP of Retail. The company also announced John Jardine will assume the role of VP of Lubricants and Specialty Products.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Weis Markets Inc. (79)<\/strong> announced Robert Gleeson has joined the company as VP of Fresh Merchandising. He takes over for John Grimes who recently retired.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Appleegreen<\/strong> has reached an agreement to acquire 46 gas stations with c-stores from CrossAmerica Partners LP<\/strong> in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0EG America LLC<\/strong> has completed its acquisition of Fastrac Markets LLC<\/strong>. The transaction included 54 convenience stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Getty Realty Corp.<\/strong> has purchased a six-property portfolio of Mobil-branded convenience and gasoline retail sites in Los Angeles from 1234 M Division Street Inc.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Ahold-Delhaize<\/strong> announced it is opening a fresh processing facility and culinary innovation center in North Kingstown, RI.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co.<\/strong> plans to build a new high-tech customer fulfillment center in Forest Park, GA, that will open in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ridley’s Food Corp.,<\/strong> in a partnership with Nimble Rx, will launch on-demand prescription drug delivery for customers in Utah and Idaho.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tops Markets LLC<\/strong> has teamed up with SPoT Coffee Ltd. to open Spot Express caf\u00e9s in select stores.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Giant Food Stores LLC<\/strong> will open its second Giant Heirloom Market in Philadelphia on August 2.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Pilot Flying J<\/strong> announced it will open six new travel centers in West Texas this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Schnuck Markets Inc.<\/strong> announced it is closing its Wilshire Village store in East Alton, IL.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Cumberland Farms Inc.<\/strong> has released the Cumberland Farms app, the next edition of its SmartPay Check-Link program. It has also introduced a Coffee \u201cCup-Scription\u201d program.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Food Lion LLC<\/strong> launched online grocery pickup at 105 stores in the Carolinas and Virginia. Called Food Lion To-Go, the service enables customers to buy groceries and have them available for pickup at a local store in as soon as an hour.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0H-E-B<\/strong> recently opened its new Eastside Tech Hub innovation center in East Austin, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Parker Companies<\/strong> introduced DailyPay technology, a program that allows employees to access their pay daily, weekly or on demand. Employees can transfer some or all of their banked pay at any point for a nominal fee.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Save Mart Companies<\/strong> now offers same-day home delivery through Instacart at all of its stores in California and Nevada.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sheetz Inc.<\/strong> is partnering with Coinsource to bring bitcoin ATMs to five of its locations in Pennsylvania and one in North Carolina.<\/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 319 companies in the Supermarket, Grocery, & Convenience Stores PLUS Database, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Delek US Holdings, Inc. (90) announced Daryl Schofield will join the company as Exec VP of Business Development. \u2022\u00a0Empire Petroleum Partners (8) has appointed Rick Golman as its new CEO. \u2022\u00a0Fresh Thyme Farmers Market (109) has promoted Dean Little to COO. In other appointments, Tod Pepin was named Chief Merchandising Officer. \u2022\u00a0Kum &… Continue reading DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 July 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-12531","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\/12531","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=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}