{"id":16173,"date":"2022-06-30T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=16173"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:14:51","slug":"in-other-business-news-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2022\/06\/in-other-business-news-57\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Buc-ee’s Ltd.<\/strong> has officially opened its first travel center in Tennessee. The 53,400 sq. ft. location is in Crossville.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Gerrity\u2019s Supermarkets Inc.<\/strong> has joined retail grocery cooperative Wakefern Food Corp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co.<\/strong> has opened a new fulfillment center in Pleasant Prairie, WI.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Loblaw Companies Limited<\/strong> announced it is partnering with DoorDash to make online delivery available to its customers in 30 minutes or less, beginning in August 2022.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Publix Super Markets Inc.<\/strong> reported it will open its first store in Kentucky. The 55,700 sq. ft. location is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Stater Bros. Holdings Inc.<\/strong> announced Bertha Luna has been promoted to Senior VP of Retail Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wawa Inc.<\/strong> plans to open 40 new convenience stores in the central Pennsylvania area.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.<\/strong> reported its CEO and President, Mark Tritton, has left the company. Sue Gove has been appointed Interim CEO. In addition, Mara Sirhal was named Exec VP and Chief Merchandising Officer. She replaces Joe Hartsig, who is leaving the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp.<\/strong> announced that Jean Fahy has been named as Manager of Business Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar General Corp.<\/strong> announced Mark Banister was promoted to Senior VP of In-Store Experience. Johnes Battle was promoted to Senior VP of Diversity and Inclusion. Ivan Reeves was promoted to Senior VP Supply Chain Human Resources. In addition the retailer hired Allen Warch as VP and DMM Fresh. Michael Auyeung has been named VP Merchandising. Rick Channell was promoted to VP and DMM. Scott Miller was promoted to VP of Space Management.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar Tree Stores Inc.<\/strong> reported that COO Thomas O\u2019Boyle, CIO Andy Paisley, Chief Strategy Officer David Jacobs and Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary William Old are no longer with the company. The retailer plans to hire new people to fill the positions.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Five Below Inc.<\/strong> announced it plans to expand in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Foot Locker Inc.<\/strong> reported it is selling its high school and college team sales business to BSN Sports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Gap Inc.<\/strong> has opened four stores near its headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Described as \u201claboratory\u201d stores, the new locations are designed to enable the brands to test products and technologies.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hammond Lumber Company<\/strong> has acquired Brock\u2019s Building Materials, in Rochester, NH.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kempsville Building Materials<\/strong> has opened a new location in Henrico, VA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Koopman Lumber & Hardware<\/strong> has acquired Boilard Lumber.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0L & W Supply<\/strong> has acquired American Building Materials, with locations in Wadsworth and Hebron, OH.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Madison Reed, Inc.<\/strong> has appointed Brad Lande-Shannon as Chief Marketing Officer. The retailer also announced Tyler Wozny was promoted to Chief Digital Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Rocky\u2019s Ace Hardware<\/strong> has named Luis Pedro as COO. Steve Poulin has been promoted to VP of Store Operations. John Falcone has been promoted to Director of Merchandising.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Abraham & Sons Inc.<\/strong> has announced the retirement of George Predick and Tom Rogers, two Regional VP\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Skechers USA Inc.<\/strong> recently opened a 22,000 sq. ft. store in Elizabeth, NJ. The location is the biggest store on the East Coast.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Target Corporation<\/strong> has completed its 1,000th store remodel, featuring its latest in-store design.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Canada<\/strong> announced it has launched Walmart Now. The service from Instacart allows customers to receive their orders in as soon as 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Westlake Ace Hardware<\/strong> announced it will acquire Guerneville Fulton Ace Hardware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chicken Salad Chick<\/strong> has signed a franchise agreement that will bring 20 new locations to Texas over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dave & Buster\u2019s<\/strong> has completed their purchase of Main Event<\/strong> and Chris Morris has taken over as CEO of Dave & Buster\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Eggs Up Grill<\/strong> is planning to open three new restaurants in Atlanta, GA by the end of the year. The first location is slated to open by the end of the summer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Frisch’s Big Boy<\/strong> will now be serving Nathan’s Famous<\/strong> hot dogs at all locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Huey Magoo’s<\/strong> has opened a new location in Greenville, SC.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0KFC<\/strong> has promoted Tarun Lal to President of U.S. Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Marco’s Pizza<\/strong> has opened a new location in Dundee, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0McDonald’s Corporation<\/strong> CFO, Kevin Ozan, has been promoted to Senior Executive VP of Strategic Initiatives. Ozan is planning to retire by the middle of next year. His repaclemnt has already been named and Ian Borden has been promoted to CFO. Global Chief Supply Chain Officer, Francesca DeBiase, will be retiring on September 1st.\u00a0 Marion Gross has been named as her replacement. Katie Fallon, Chief Global Impact Officer is retiring on July 15th.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Qdoba<\/strong> has launched Pure Gold, a queso-themed virtual brand, in 300 locations in select markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Buc-ee’s Ltd. has officially opened its first travel center in Tennessee. The 53,400 sq. ft. location is in Crossville. \u2022\u00a0Gerrity\u2019s Supermarkets Inc. has joined retail grocery cooperative Wakefern Food Corp. \u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co. has opened a new fulfillment center in Pleasant Prairie, WI. \u2022\u00a0Loblaw Companies Limited announced it is partnering with… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173","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=16173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}