{"id":16350,"date":"2022-09-16T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=16350"},"modified":"2022-09-16T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:44:36","slug":"in-other-business-news-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2022\/09\/in-other-business-news-68\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0GPM Investments LLC<\/strong> has agreed to acquire Flash Market Inc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Southeastern Grocers<\/strong> reported it is working with DoorDash to provide customers with in-store prices and delivery in two hours or less.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wawa Inc<\/strong>. announced that it plans to open its first store in Alabama, located in the city of Fairhope, in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wegmans Food Markets Inc<\/strong>. announced it will open its first supermarket in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Amazon<\/strong>.com Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first Amazon Go convenience store in Southern California. The location is in Whittier, and the retailer announced another location is coming soon to Torrance.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Belk Inc<\/strong>. has named Don Hendricks as CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc<\/strong>. opened its newest store location in Canton, MI.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Carter Lumber Co<\/strong>. announced that it has purchased a facility near Myrtle Beach, SC that will house a new component and millwork manufacturing plant. This will be the company\u2019s 14th manufacturing plant and the company’s first in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hermes USA<\/strong> has signed a lease for a 7,000 sq. ft. store at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta, GA, that it intends to open in the second quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Home Hardware Stores Limited<\/strong> announced that Marianne Thompson has been appointed to the new role of Chief Commercial Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hudson\u2019s Bay Company<\/strong> has named Sophia Hwang-Judiesch as President. She will succeed Wayne Drummond, who is retiring.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lands\u2019 End Inc<\/strong>. reported that Andrew McLean will become CEO of the company beginning Nov. 1. He will succeed Jerome Griffith, who will retire on Jan. 27 and transition to the role of Executive Vice Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lowe\u2019s Companies Inc<\/strong>. has expanded its partnership with Instacart and is now making same-day delivery available from more than 1,700 Lowe’s stores across the country.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Nordstrom Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to open three new Nordstrom Rack locations in fall of 2023. Two of the new stores will be located in Washington and the third will be in Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Qurate Retail Group<\/strong> announced Soumya Sriraman has been hired as President of Streaming for HSN<\/strong> and QVC, Inc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0R<\/strong>.P<\/strong>. Lumber Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. announced that it has acquired Southwest Builder Supply<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Von Maur Inc<\/strong>. plans to open a two-level, 118,000 sq. ft. store at South Hills Village, in Pittsburgh, PA. Scheduled to open in fall 2024, the store will be the retailer\u2019s first location in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. has named Hsiao Wang as CIO. He joins the retailer from The Michaels Company and succeeds Francesco Tinto.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Windsor Fashions Inc<\/strong>. has opened its first store in Manhattan. The 4,000 sq. ft. store is in the SoHo area.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Dairy Queen<\/strong> has named Nicolas Boudet as International COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Donatos Pizza<\/strong> has hired Jodie Conrad as Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0FB Society<\/strong> has hired Brad Leist as CFO.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Mountain Mike’s Pizza<\/strong> has opened\u00a0 a new location in Spanish Fork, UT.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Starbucks<\/strong> has entered the metaverse and allows customers to obtain tokens and NFTs through virtual games that can be exchanged for real life items. The company is also planning to invest $450 million in store upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, C-Store \u2022\u00a0GPM Investments LLC has agreed to acquire Flash Market Inc. \u2022\u00a0Southeastern Grocers reported it is working with DoorDash to provide customers with in-store prices and delivery in two hours or less. \u2022\u00a0Wawa Inc. announced that it plans to open its first store in Alabama, located in the city of Fairhope, in 2024.… 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-16350","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\/16350","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=16350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}