{"id":16197,"date":"2022-07-08T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=16197"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:26:43","slug":"in-other-business-news-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2022\/07\/in-other-business-news-58\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Fresh Thyme Market<\/strong> reported Liz Zolcak has been appointed as the new President of the company, taking over from Gerald Melville who has retired.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Giant Company<\/strong> has opened a new 50,340 sq. ft. store in Richboro, PA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Giant Company<\/strong> reported Ted Williams has joined as Director of Nonfoods.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0H-E-B<\/strong> said it plans to expand its distribution center in Temple, TX, adding an automated frozen distribution line.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wakefern Food Corp<\/strong>. announced the retirement of Brett Wing, and the promotion of Kevin McDonnell to President of Price Rite Marketplace. Danny Perriello has been named Director Retail Operations. Michael Day was promoted to Group VP Strategic Planning, Business Development and Member Services; and Dan Tarnopol was promoted to VP of Site Development, Real Estate and Member Services.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0At Home Group Inc<\/strong>. opened five new stores in June in CA, IL, NY, and PA.\u00a0 A total of 252 locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bed Bath & Beyond Inc<\/strong>. has named Laura Crossen as its new Senior VP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. She will take over for John Barresi, who resigned from the company. The retailer also named Susie A. Kim as Senior VP of Treasury and Investor Relations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Cardinal Health<\/strong> has acquired The Bendcare Group.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0CVS Health<\/strong> reported it has left the National Association of Chain Drug Stores<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Gap Inc<\/strong>. said it will open stores in India through a franchise agreement.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0It\u2019Sugar <\/strong>reported it will open a 20,355 sq. ft. pop-up store in New York City\u2019s Times Square in fall 2022.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kirkland’s Inc<\/strong>. is launching last-mile delivery and light assembly to customers. The service is expected to be rolled out by the end of July 2022.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lululemon Athletica Inc<\/strong>. reported it will open its first ever stores in Spain in the fall.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Luxottica North America<\/strong> has opened a new LensCrafters store in Palo Alto, CA, with advanced digital technology.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mango Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to open at least 20 stores in Canada during the next 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0United Hardware Distributing Co<\/strong>. recently launched a new e-commerce site for its Solon Springs Mercantile.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to remodel its 25 stores in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. added a new feature to its membership service. The retailer now offers in-home direct-to-fridge delivery.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Another Broken Egg<\/strong> Caf\u00e9<\/strong> has opened a new location in Lexington, SC.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Captain D’s Seafood<\/strong> has opened a new location in Spring Hill, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Cheba Hut<\/strong> has opened a new location in Bellingham, WA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Subway<\/strong> has modified their menu to include 12 curated sandwich options that the company hopes will streamline the sandwich making process.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tim Hortons<\/strong> has unveiled their drive-thru-only location design. The new smaller location is integrated with the company\u2019s app and the first store will open by the end of the summer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0YUM! Brands Inc<\/strong>. is in talks to transfer the ownership of their KFC restaurants in Russia. This is part of the company\u2019s plan to exit the Russian marketplace completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Fresh Thyme Market reported Liz Zolcak has been appointed as the new President of the company, taking over from Gerald Melville who has retired. \u2022\u00a0The Giant Company has opened a new 50,340 sq. ft. store in Richboro, PA. \u2022\u00a0The Giant Company reported Ted Williams has joined as Director of Nonfoods. \u2022\u00a0H-E-B… 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":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-16197","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\/16197","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=16197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}