{"id":16741,"date":"2023-06-02T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=16741"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:07:31","slug":"in-other-business-news-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2023\/06\/in-other-business-news-103\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 H-E-B<\/strong> reported it will open a new 55,000 sq. ft. e-commerce fulfillment center in Plano, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022 KeHE Distributors, LLC<\/strong> announced it plans to acquire DPI Specialty Foods Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Tops Markets LLC<\/strong> has expanded its Instacart services to encompass more stores in Pennsylvania and Vermont, in addition to its New York offerings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wakefern Food Corp<\/strong>. has hired Parul Aggarwal to serve as VP, Controller for Wakefern Financial Services.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Whole Foods Market Inc<\/strong>. is opening its long-anticipated 47,000 sq. ft. location in Washington, DC, on June 28.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 At Home Group Inc<\/strong>. recently appointed Jeff Evans as President and Chief Merchandising Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. reported Chad Fox has been promoted to Senior VP, Chief Marketing Officer. Aaron Carlisle has been promoted to VP, Asset Protection. Amelia Kennedy has been promoted to VP, Asset Protection. Tim Bartlett has been promoted to Division VP, Store Operations, responsible for stores from Oklahoma to California. Julie Martin has been promoted to Division VP, Store Operations, responsible for regions in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Mark Person has been promoted to Division VP, Store Operations, responsible for regions in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. Smriti Maheshwari joined the retailer as VP, Inventory and Demand Management.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Genesco Inc<\/strong>. has plans to shutter more than 100 underperforming Journeys stores in its current fiscal year, up from its previous estimate of 60.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nike Inc<\/strong>. announced it will promote Heidi O\u2019Neill to the role of President, Consumer, Product and Brand, and Craig Williams to President, Geographies and Marketplace. Other promotions include Sarah Mensah who will become President Jordan Brand, and Scott Uzzell who will become VP\/GM, North America. Additionally, Andy Campion will take on a new role as Managing Director, Strategic Business Ventures.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vitamin Shoppe Industries<\/strong> has promoted Lee A. Wright to CEO and Muriel Gonzalez to President.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Von Maur Inc<\/strong>. plans to open a new 90,000 sq. ft. location at West Acres Mall, in Fargo, ND.\u00a0 Construction is set to begin this summer, with a scheduled opening for spring 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. is laying off 504 corporate employees, which is 10% of its corporate workforce. The retailer also announced its Global Chief Communications Officer, Aaron Radelet, is leaving the company.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 BurgerFi<\/strong> has hired Carl Bachmann as CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 California\u2019s State Assembly<\/strong> has passed the Fast Food Franchisor Responsibility Act. The act would hold franchisors and franchisees jointly accountable for working conditions in restaurants. The act will now head to the California State Senate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chipotle<\/strong> has hired Stephen Piacentini as Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Panera Bread<\/strong> has launched drive-thru pickup at all of their locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 H-E-B reported it will open a new 55,000 sq. ft. e-commerce fulfillment center in Plano, TX. \u2022 KeHE Distributors, LLC announced it plans to acquire DPI Specialty Foods Inc. \u2022 Tops Markets LLC has expanded its Instacart services to encompass more stores in Pennsylvania and Vermont, in addition to its… 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-16741","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\/16741","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=16741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}