{"id":13381,"date":"2020-03-05T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=13381"},"modified":"2020-03-05T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:30:29","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/03\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-15\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &#038; Convenience Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Fresh Market Inc. (119)<\/strong> announced that it has appointed Jason Potter as CEO. He succeeds Larry Appel, who has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Casey\u2019s General Stores Inc.<\/strong> has acquired the Center Point Travel Plaza in Iowa from Petroleum Services Co. LLC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Giant Food Stores has changed its name to <strong>The Giant Company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Publix Super Markets Inc.<\/strong> has broken ground on a new refrigerated distribution center in Greensboro, NC. The 940,000 sq. ft. facility is due to be completed by the end of 2020, and will be the grocer&#8217;s first in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Summerwood Partners, LLC<\/strong> debuted its first self-checkout lane. Located inside the retailer&#8217;s Hensley, AK, Big Red convenience store, the cashierless technology allows guests to pay for their purchases using a touchscreen kiosk at checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0The Fresh Market Inc. (119) announced that it has appointed Jason Potter as CEO. He succeeds Larry Appel, who has resigned. &nbsp; Mergers and Acquisitions \u2022\u00a0Casey\u2019s General Stores Inc. has acquired the Center Point Travel Plaza in Iowa from Petroleum Services Co. LLC. &nbsp; Industry Insight \u2022\u00a0Giant Food Stores has changed its name&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/03\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-15\/\">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-13381","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\/13381","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=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}