{"id":17268,"date":"2024-03-01T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17268"},"modified":"2024-03-01T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:58:37","slug":"in-other-business-news-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2024\/03\/in-other-business-news-141\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 Buc-ee’s Ltd<\/strong>. announced it will open its first location in Colorado this month in Johnstown.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong>Fareway Stores Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open its first store location in Kansas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Garden of Eden<\/strong> has opened its third grocery store, in Manhattan, NY.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Grocery Outlet Holding Corp<\/strong>. plans to open up to 60 new stores in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022 TravelCenters of America Inc<\/strong>. will open its 300th location this week in Walton, KY. The company plans to open 20 new locations this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Valor Oil<\/strong> announced it is opening 3 new convenience stores in Indiana and Kentucky.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. has hired Lanesha Minnix as its new Exec VP and Global Chief Legal Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wawa Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open more than 70 new convenience stores in 2024, including the company\u2019s first locations in three new states: Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Weis Markets Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Mike Umstead to the position of VP of talent development and associate relations. He succeeds Robert Cline who is retiring.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Boise Cascade LLC<\/strong> announced Mike Brown, Exec VP of Wood Products, will retire. Troy Little will be promoted as his successor. Erin Nuxoll, Senior VP of Human Resources, will also retire, and Angella Broesch will be promoted to the position.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CVS Health <\/strong>has recently partnered with Grubhub as another option for delivery to customers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. opened its 20,000th store location this week in Alice, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022 House-Hasson Hardware Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. has named Wayne Walls as VP of Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Macy\u2019s Inc.<\/strong> reported it will close approximately 150 underproductive Macy\u2019s stores, including 50 by the end of the year. The retailer also plans to open 15 new Bloomingdale\u2019s<\/strong> and 30 Bluemercury Inc<\/strong>. locations by 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack<\/strong> has named David Willetts as its new CEO. He replaces Scott Collette.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pet Supplies \u2018Plus\u2019 Inc<\/strong>. has partnered with DoorDash to offer delivery service to its customers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rent the Runway<\/strong> has named Natalie McGrath as its new Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 R.P. Lumber Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. announced it is acquiring Schrock Lumber Co<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The TJX Companies Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to open 45 new Marshall\u2019s and TJ Maxx stores, 40 new HomeGoods stores, including 17 HomeSense stores, and 26 Sierra Trading Post stores this year. The retailer plans to open 10 new stores in Canada.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vuori Clothing<\/strong> reported it plans to open 25 new store locations this year and next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming<\/strong> announced it will open new store locations in two new states, Michigan and Oregon, early next year.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Applebee\u2019s<\/strong> is planning to launch a new prototype in 2025. There are few details on what the prototype will add, yet the company says it will streamline the guest experience.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Del Taco<\/strong> is ending its use of AI voicebots in drive-thrus. The company has been using the technology since 2022 and planned to expand its use last year. The company has not commented as to the reason for this change.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong>Golden Corral<\/strong> suffered a data breach last August and the company has revealed that sensitive information like employee names and Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Panera Bread<\/strong> is planning to launch a menu overhaul in April. The company will be adding nine new dishes and upgrades for twelve existing items, yet they will be eliminating existing pizza items.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nathan\u2019s Famous<\/strong> has signed a franchise agreement to bring physical locations to Brazil by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wendy\u2019s<\/strong> has faced backlash this week after discussing the potential of their digital menu boards that have the ability to change prices on the fly. Consumers have run with the term \u201csurge pricing\u201d to outline how items could increase in price for lunch and dinner times. Wendy\u2019s has stated that this was a misunderstanding and they have no plans to raise prices based on the time of day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Stores \u2022 Buc-ee’s Ltd. announced it will open its first location in Colorado this month in Johnstown. \u2022 Fareway Stores Inc. reported it plans to open its first store location in Kansas. \u2022 Garden of Eden has opened its third grocery store, in Manhattan, NY. \u2022 Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. plans to… 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-17268","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\/17268","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=17268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}