{"id":17200,"date":"2024-02-02T09:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17200"},"modified":"2024-02-02T09:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:33:20","slug":"in-other-business-news-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2024\/02\/in-other-business-news-137\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Aldi Inc<\/strong>. is opening four new locations this week in AZ, CA, FL, and IL.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Circle K Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced it is planning to open 60 convenience stores in Wisconsin over the next few years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0FreshDirect Inc.<\/strong> has named Sloan Eddleston as CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp<\/strong>. has appointed Ramesh Chikkala to the newly created position of Exec VP, COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open 20 to 25 new locations and remodel between 35 to 40 stores in 2024.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a084 Lumber Co<\/strong>. announced Mark Ingersoll has been named Area Manager of its West Division.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Cost Plus Inc<\/strong>. will open a 19,000 sq. ft. World Market store in Paramus, NJ, later this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>. has promoted Corbin Prows to Divisional Manager of E-commerce and Brianna Wells to Divisional Manager Digital Marketing.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0eBay Inc<\/strong>. reported it will reduce its workforce by approximately 1,000 people or 9% of its full-time employees.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0H & M Group<\/strong> announced that Helena Helmersson, its CEO, has left the company. She will be succeeded by Daniel Erver.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Joe\u2019s Jeans Inc<\/strong>. has named Dani Michelle as its new Creative Director.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lululemon Athletica Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to debut its first men\u2019s footwear line.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Recreational Equipment Inc<\/strong>. announced it would lay off 357 corporate employees.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0RONA Inc<\/strong>. announced that it plans to cut about 300 jobs and close two distribution centers in Terrebonne, QC, and Calgary, AB.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc<\/strong>. reported that Prama Bhatt, its Chief Digital Officer, has left the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open more than 150 larger-format stores during the next five years while also remodeling existing locations. Over the next year, the retailer expects to remodel 650 stores.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Blaze Pizza<\/strong> has named Christian Kuhn as Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Inspire Brands<\/strong> has promoted Jason Maceda to Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0McDonald\u2019s<\/strong> has updated their burger lineup in all U.S. stores. Every burger item on the menu has been altered with new buns, additional sauces, and new cooking processes. This is the first time the company has altered their burgers since 2018 when they removed artificial ingredients from their burger menu.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Starbucks<\/strong> came in under sales estimates in the China market, but the company does not plan to change prices or expansion plans in the region.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Subway<\/strong> debuted a new Sidekicks platform that features footlong pretzels and cookies and the company reported that 3.5 million items were sold in the first two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sweetgreen<\/strong> has added an annual membership to their loyalty program.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Swig <\/strong>has named Bill Ayers as CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walk-On\u2019s<\/strong> has named Andy Izquierdo as VP of Communications and Trey Hughes as Senior Director of Franchise Sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Aldi Inc. is opening four new locations this week in AZ, CA, FL, and IL. \u2022\u00a0Circle K Stores Inc. announced it is planning to open 60 convenience stores in Wisconsin over the next few years. \u2022\u00a0FreshDirect Inc. has named Sloan Eddleston as CEO of the company. \u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. has… 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-17200","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\/17200","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=17200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}