{"id":13007,"date":"2019-11-15T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=13007"},"modified":"2019-11-15T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:34:56","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/11\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &#038; Convenience Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Love\u2019s Travel Stops &amp; Country Stores Inc.<\/strong> <strong>(123)<\/strong> has promoted Jenny Love Meyer to Exec VP and Chief Culture Officer, a newly created role.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Dean Foods Company<\/strong> has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to sell the company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Parkland Fuel Corporation<\/strong> has entered into an agreement through its U.S. subsidiary <strong>Parkland USA<\/strong> to acquire Ken Bettridge Distributing Inc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Smoker Friendly International LLC<\/strong> has acquired Smoker\u2019s Outlet, a 33-store chain operating in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Aldi Inc.<\/strong> has recently added alcohol to its national grocery delivery partnership with Instacart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Kum &amp; Go LLC<\/strong> will open an urban convenience store without gasoline in downtown Des Moines, IA. The 3,000 sq. ft. store is scheduled to open in spring 2020 and is a new concept for the retailer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Buc-ee&#8217;s Ltd.<\/strong> announced it will open its first Georgia location in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Under a partnership with Takeoff Technologies, <strong>Loblaw Companies Limited<\/strong> plans to pilot an automated warehouse inside a Toronto store to fulfill online grocery orders for its PC Express pickup service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Love\u2019s Travel Stops &amp; Country Stores Inc. (123) has promoted Jenny Love Meyer to Exec VP and Chief Culture Officer, a newly created role. &nbsp; Financial Focus \u2022\u00a0Dean Foods Company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to sell the company. &nbsp; Mergers and Acquisitions \u2022\u00a0Parkland Fuel Corporation has entered into an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/11\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &#038; Convenience Stores<\/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-13007","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\/13007","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=13007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}