{"id":12536,"date":"2019-07-24T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2019-07-24T12:40:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:40:41","slug":"datatrac-discount-specialty-stores-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/07\/datatrac-discount-specialty-stores-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Discount and Specialty Stores \u2013 July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022\u00a0Big Lots Stores Inc<\/strong>. (106)<\/strong> has named Jonathan Ramsden as Exec VP, CFO and Chief Administrative Officer. He will succeed Timothy A. Johnson.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hallmark Cards, Inc<\/strong>. (118)<\/strong> announced Mike Perry has been appointed President and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kirkland\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. (36)<\/strong> has named Nicole Strain as Exec VP and CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Party City Holdco Inc<\/strong>. (45)<\/strong> announced that Brad Weston has been appointed as CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Target Corporation (300)<\/strong> has hired Hari Govind as Senior VP of Infrastructure and Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. (219)<\/strong> announced Steve Schmitt will become the new U.S. E-commerce CFO. Ashley Buchanan will move from the Exec VP and Chief Merchandising Officer at Sam\u2019s Club to be the Chief Merchandising Officer for U.S. E-commerce.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Williams-Sonoma, Inc<\/strong>. (244)<\/strong> announced that Janet Hayes, President of the Williams-Sonoma brand, is resigning effective August 1. She will be succeeded by Ryan Ross.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Rent-A-Center<\/strong> Inc<\/strong>. has announced plans to acquire fellow lease-purchasing franchise Merchants Preferred. The deal is expected to close during the third quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. is partnering with Rite Aid to launch \u201cCounter,\u201d dedicated counters in Rite Aid stores where Amazon customers can pick up their purchases. The service, which is free to all Amazon customers, is now available in more than 100 Rite Aid stores, and will be rolled out across 1,500 locations by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sam\u2019s Club<\/strong> has added alcohol, including wine, beer and spirits, to the lineup of groceries and other essentials that members can buy when ordering through Instacart.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Target Corporation<\/strong> announced it is committing to source 100% of all its electricity from renewable sources by the year 2030.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tru Kids Brands, Inc<\/strong>. is opening two stores this holiday season in Houston, TX, and Paramus, NJ.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its largest self-standing grocery pickup and delivery center in the United States, in Lincolnwood, IL.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. announced it plans to open 10 DGX locations in fiscal year 2019. The smaller format measures half the size of a traditional location.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fred\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. said it will close another 129 stores and hold inventory clearance sales. Fred\u2019s will have an estimated 80 retail stores and 166 pharmacies following its store closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Big Lots Stores Inc. (106) has named Jonathan Ramsden as Exec VP, CFO and Chief Administrative Officer. He will succeed Timothy A. Johnson. \u2022\u00a0Hallmark Cards, Inc. (118) announced Mike Perry has been appointed President and CEO. \u2022\u00a0Kirkland\u2019s Inc. (36) has named Nicole Strain as Exec VP and CFO. \u2022\u00a0Party City Holdco Inc. (45)… Continue reading DATATRAC: Discount and Specialty 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":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12536","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\/12536","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=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}