{"id":17189,"date":"2024-01-26T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17189"},"modified":"2024-01-26T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:40:16","slug":"in-other-business-news-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2024\/01\/in-other-business-news-136\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Associated Food Stores Inc<\/strong>. recently named Todd Jensen VP of Fresh Foods.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Big Y Foods Inc<\/strong>. announced Nicole D\u2019Amour Schneider has been promoted to Senior VP of Retail Operations and Customer Experience.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Buc-ee’s Ltd<\/strong>. reported it plans to open its first store location in Arizona.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Coborn’s Inc<\/strong>. announced Emily Coborn Wright has been promoted to Senior VP of Growth Initiatives. Nathan Tykwinski was promoted to VP of New Store Development. Chad Ellis has been promoted to Senior Director of Pharmacy, Fuel, and Franchise Development. Christie Schulte has been named VP of Legal.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Northeast Grocery, Inc<\/strong>. has promoted John Persons to serve as CEO. Current CEO Frank Curci is retiring from the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wakefern Food Corp<\/strong>. announced the appointment of Darren Caudill as its new Chief Sales Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Whole Foods Market Inc<\/strong>. recently opened a new 43,400 sq. ft. store in South Windsor, CT.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0WinCo Foods LLC<\/strong> reported it plans to open a new 85,600 sq. ft. location in Goodyear, AZ, in late 2024.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Academy Sports & Outdoors<\/strong> has appointed Robert Howell to the role of Senior VP and Chief Supply Chain Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. reported it is promoting John Felton to a new role of Senior VP and CFO of its Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0BJ\u2019s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc<\/strong>. is opening a new location in Johnson City, NY, this month.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Casper <\/strong>Sleep Inc<\/strong>. has named Joe Megibow as CEO. He succeeds Emilie Arel, who has left the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Designer Brands Inc<\/strong>. announced that Andrea O’Donnell has been named to the role of Brands President and Exec VP.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>. announced Rich Lynch has retired from his role as VP of Marketing.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kirkland\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Amy Sullivan to CEO, effective Feb. 5.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Macy\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. reported it will close five Macy\u2019s stores and cut approximately 2,350 jobs, or about 3.5% of its corporate workforce.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Rocky\u2019s Ace Hardware<\/strong> announced it plans to acquire Smith Hardware & Lumber<\/strong> in Rockport, MA, and Hometown Ace Hardware<\/strong> in Gloucester, MA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Target Corporation<\/strong> has named Michael Fiddelke its COO effective February 4. The retailer also announced the upcoming retirement of Don Liu. Rick Gomez was named Chief Food, Essentials & Beauty Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tilly\u2019s Co<\/strong>. announced that Ed Thomas has retired as President, CEO. Hezy Shaked has been appointed to serve as Interim President and CEO until a successor is appointed.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wayfair LLC<\/strong> has laid off approximately 1,650 employees, roughly 13% of its global workforce.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0W.E. Aubuchon Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. announced it has acquired Brunswick Ace Hardware<\/strong> in Brunswick, MD.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Chipotle<\/strong> will be hiring 19,000 new employees over the next few months. The company will also be adding a retirement match program for employees who make eligible student loan payments.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0In-N-Out Burger<\/strong> will be permanently closing their Oakland location due to excessive crime in the area. It is the first time the company has had to permanently shutter a restaurant due to nearby criminal activity.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Jersey Mike\u2019s Subs<\/strong> will be using a voice AI ordering system that will handle all customer calls.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Swig<\/strong> has named Angela Kavanaugh as Director of People and Culture.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wendy\u2019s<\/strong> has named Kirk Tanner as President and CEO; he has also been elected to serve on the board of directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Associated Food Stores Inc. recently named Todd Jensen VP of Fresh Foods. \u2022\u00a0Big Y Foods Inc. announced Nicole D\u2019Amour Schneider has been promoted to Senior VP of Retail Operations and Customer Experience. \u2022\u00a0Buc-ee’s Ltd. reported it plans to open its first store location in Arizona. \u2022\u00a0Coborn’s Inc. announced Emily Coborn Wright… 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-17189","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\/17189","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=17189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}