{"id":17099,"date":"2023-11-22T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17099"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:15:28","slug":"in-other-business-news-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2023\/11\/in-other-business-news-128\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-CSG_Sales_Leads.aspx?utm_source=newsroom&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=inside_ad&amp;utm_content=Offthechain_Core_ad2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/morewaystoconnect2021_300x300.png\" alt=\"Free Trial\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022\u00a0Associated Food Stores<\/strong> has recently opened its first Macey\u2019s Market store. It is located in Park City, UT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.<\/strong> announced it has opened its first store location in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Publix Super Markets Inc.<\/strong> announced its current CEO, Todd Jones, will become the new Executive Chairman. Its current President Kevin Murphy will become CEO, and current Senior VP John Goff will take on the role of President. Ed Crenshaw will remain with the company as Chairman Emeritus. These changes will take effect January 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_racetrac\">\u2022\u00a0RaceTrac Petroleum Inc.<\/strong> is opening the company&#8217;s first convenience store in Indiana in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0T &#038; T Supermarket Inc.<\/strong> has hired Chris Pine as Director of Real Estate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Cameron Ashley Building Products Inc.<\/strong> announced it is opening three new distribution centers in the next couple of months. They will be located in Chicago, IL, Greenville, SC, and Manchester, NH.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Kohl\u2019s Corporation<\/strong> announced that Dave Alves, its President and COO, has left the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> announced that its Chief Human Resources Officer, Holly May, is leaving the company. Sal Venegas will serve as Interim Chief Human Resources Officer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Chipotle<\/strong> is temporarily renaming one of their Kansas City locations to \u201cChipolte\u201d in honor of NFL player Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0McDonald\u2019s<\/strong> is expanding in China after agreeing to acquire the minority ownership stake in global investment firm The Carlyle Group. The company has updated their expansion objectives in China to 10,000 restaurants by 2028.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Papa Johns<\/strong> has settled a disability discrimination lawsuit for $175,000. The lawsuit was filed after an employee, who was legally blind, alleged he was fired from the company after his request to bring his service dog to the job site was denied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Popeyes<\/strong> has added chicken wings to their permanent menu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Potbelly<\/strong> has signed a 22-unit franchise agreement that will bring new restaurants to the Seattle and Tacoma areas of Washington state.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_steak\">\u2022\u00a0Steak &#038; Ale<\/strong> will be making their return to the restaurant industry with a new restaurant opening next spring. The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2008 and shuttered all locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store \u2022\u00a0Associated Food Stores has recently opened its first Macey\u2019s Market store. It is located in Park City, UT. \u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. announced it has opened its first store location in Ohio. \u2022\u00a0Publix Super Markets Inc. announced its current CEO, Todd Jones, will become the new Executive Chairman. Its current President&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2023\/11\/in-other-business-news-128\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">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-17099","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\/17099","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=17099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}