{"id":15576,"date":"2021-10-29T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15576"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:31:24","slug":"in-other-business-news-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/10\/in-other-business-news-25\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 Fresh Thyme Market<\/strong> announced it will open a new concept store in November in St. Louis, MO. The 27,000 sq. ft. location will focus on the community and local products.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mountain Express Oil<\/strong> has acquired Brothers Food Mart<\/strong>, which has 50 convenience store locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc<\/strong>. recently added drug disposal kiosks at over 170 pharmacies in five states.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Royal Farms<\/strong> announced it is in the process of introducing self-checkout technology in all its convenience stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shell Oil Co<\/strong>. has signed an agreement to acquire 248 company owned convenience stores from Landmark Industries Ltd<\/strong>., whose convenience stores operate in Texas under the Timewise brand.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sobeys Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Matt Reindel to CFO, taking over from Michael Vels, who has shifted to the post of Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wegmans Food Markets Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open three new smaller-format store locations in 2022 in DC, DE, and VA. The grocer also plans to open a similar location in Manhattan, NY, in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 BJ\u2019s Wholesale Club Inc<\/strong>. announced it has named Rachel Vegas as Exec VP and Chief Merchandising Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 BlueLinx Holdings Corporation<\/strong> has appointed Ryan Taylor as VP of Investor Relations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Forever 21 Inc<\/strong>. reported that Daniel Kulle has resigned as CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Genesco Inc<\/strong>. has named Thomas A. George as its Senior VP Finance and CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Home Depot Inc<\/strong>. announced John Deaton has been promoted to Exec VP of Supply Chain and Product Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ikea <\/strong>North America<\/strong> reported it is opening new smaller format stores. The retailer plans to open two \u201cplanning studios\u201d in the Los Angeles area in 2022, including an 8,000 sq. ft. location at Long Beach Towne Center. The second location will be announced soon.<\/p>\n

\u2022 JCPenney Company<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. has launched JCPenney Beauty at 10 locations. These store-in-store concepts serve as a preview of what will be a nationwide rollout to be completed by 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2022 JCPenney Company<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. reported it has appointed Marc Rosen as CEO, effective November 1.<\/p>\n

\u2022 McCoy\u2019s Building Supply<\/strong> has promoted Cheryl Keene to Director of Accounting.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Target Corporation<\/strong> announced it will open a new 32,000 sq. ft. store location in Detroit, MI.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vuori <\/strong>announced it will open more than 100 new store locations in the United States over the next five years.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 A&W All American Food<\/strong> has opened a new location in Hot Springs, AR. The company is also launching the 3\/9 pound burger promotion while poking fun at their famous 1\/3 pound burger ad campaign from the 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Burger King<\/strong> is cutting back on paper coupons and will instead turn their attention to digital promotions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dickey’s Barbecue Pit<\/strong> has introduced full bar service to their menu at new locations with options for existing owners to add the service.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Greens Restaurant Group LLC<\/strong> is planning to go public.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Logan’s Roadhouse<\/strong> will open a location in Abilene, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022 McDonald’s<\/strong> is launching a McRib NFT.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Noodles & Company<\/strong> is facing construction delays that have reduced their projected openings to 7 to 9 new restaurants for 2021. The original projection was 10 to 15 units and those additional restaurants have been pushed into early next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Subway<\/strong> is testing a one-net carb bread option and NFL player Tom Brady is promoting the product.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Starbucks<\/strong> is planning to raise their average wage to $17 next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walk-On\u2019s<\/strong> has hired John Gordon as Director of Real Estate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Zaxby\u2019s<\/strong> has appointed Bernard Acoca as CEO. Current CEO and Co-Founder Zach Mcleroy will transition to Chairman in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 BJ\u2019s Wholesale Club Inc<\/strong>. announced it has named Rachel Vegas as…<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ikea <\/strong>North America<\/strong> reported it is opening new smalle…<\/p>\n

Starbucks<\/strong> is planning to raise their average wage to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-15576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}