{"id":16274,"date":"2022-07-29T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:16:40","slug":"in-other-business-news-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2022\/07\/in-other-business-news-61\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a07-Eleven Inc<\/strong>. recently laid off 900 of its corporate staff members.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Amazon<\/strong>.com Inc<\/strong>. recently opened new Amazon Fresh stores in Paramus, NJ and Oceanside, NY. The retailer\u2019s Amazon Fresh first locations in those states.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Giant Company<\/strong> has promoted Manuel Haro to VP Finance and Strategy. Tim Santoro has been named Divisional VP of greater Philadelphia. Daren Russ has been promoted to the role of VP of Omnichannel Operations. Joanna Crishock was promoted to VP of Marketing and Commercial Planning.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0H-E-B<\/strong> has opened a new 50,000 sq. ft. e-commerce fulfillment center in Leander, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hy-Vee Inc<\/strong>. announced Aaron Wiese will take over as its new CEO, succeeding current Chairman and CEO Randy Edeker. The transition will take place October 1.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mountain Express Oil Inc<\/strong>. has acquired Team Schierl Companies<\/strong>. The transaction includes 26 convenience stores with gasoline in Wisconsin and Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Stater Bros<\/strong>. Holdings Inc<\/strong>. announced Irene Willins has been promoted to VP of Finance.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Caleres<\/strong> reported that Diane Sullivan will retire as CEO January 15, 2023 and will assume the role of Executive Chairman. Jay Schmidt, currently the company\u2019s President, will succeed her as CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. plans to build three new distribution centers in North Little Rock, AR, Aurora, CO, and Salem, OR.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar Tree Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced Bobby Aflatooni has joined the company as its new CIO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Forever 21 Inc<\/strong>. reported it will move its headquarters to downtown Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Gucci America Inc<\/strong>. has opened its first store location in the state of Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Isabel Marant<\/strong> has opened a new location in New York City. It is the biggest store in the company, at 2,950 sq. ft.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lids Sports Group<\/strong> is opening a new concept, called Lids U, dedicated to collegiate sports product and apparel. The first Lids U opened this month in Gurnee, IL.\u00a0 The retailer plans to expand the concept with approximately 11 locations in 2022 in AL, GA, IN, LA, NC, SC, and TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Macy\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to open three new The Market by Macy\u2019s stores this fall.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Nordstrom Inc<\/strong>. announced it will open two new Nordstrom Rack locations in spring 2023. The retailer will open a 24,000 sq. ft. Nordstrom Rack in Chattanooga, TN, and a 28,000 sq. ft. location in Wichita, Kansas.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Target Corporation<\/strong> said it plans to open three new distribution centers in the next year, two in greater Chicago and one in the Denver metro area.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Vera Bradley<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. announced that its President and CEO, Robert Wallstrom, plans to retire by early 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. plans to remodel 28 of its stores in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0W<\/strong>.E<\/strong>. Aubuchon Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. announced it will acquire Martin’s Hardware & Building Supply<\/strong> in Vermont.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Williams-Sonoma<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. said that Ryan Ross, President, has resigned. The company has appointed Felix Carbullido, formerly Exec VP and Chief Marketing Officer, as the new President.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Caribou Coffee<\/strong> has hired Matthew Walls as Chief Franchise Operator.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chipotle<\/strong> is planning a second menu price increase in August after seeing positive benefits from their previous increase.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Clean Juice<\/strong> has opened a new franchised location in Jacksonville, FL. This location is their first in partnership with former NFL player Tim Tebow.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dickey’s Barbecue Pit<\/strong> is opening their second location in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fatburger<\/strong> has opened a new location in Wichita, KS.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0FOCUS Brands<\/strong> has hired Mike Woodward as Senior VP of Franchise Sales.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0McDonald’s Corporation<\/strong> has raised their prices and their CEO does not see automation as a solution to rising inflation costs.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Southern Proper Hospitality Group<\/strong> has hired Christopher Harter as COO.<\/p>\n

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Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a07-Eleven Inc. recently laid off 900 of its corporate staff members. \u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc. recently opened new Amazon Fresh stores in Paramus, NJ and Oceanside, NY. The retailer\u2019s Amazon Fresh first locations in those states. \u2022\u00a0The Giant Company has promoted Manuel Haro to VP Finance and Strategy. Tim Santoro has been named… 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-16274","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\/16274","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=16274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}