{"id":17720,"date":"2024-08-23T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17720"},"modified":"2024-08-23T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:20:10","slug":"in-other-business-news-166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2024\/08\/in-other-business-news-166\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Bi-Rite Market<\/strong> will open a new supermarket on Polk Street in San Francisco, CA, on August 29.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Couche-Tard Inc.<\/strong> will acquire approximately 270 GetGo locations throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana from Giant Eagle Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Food Lion LLC<\/strong> celebrated the reopening of 167 stores this week that it had remodeled in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Giant Company<\/strong> has promoted Rebecca Lupfer to Senior VP and Chief Merchant.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lowes Foods Inc.<\/strong> will open a new Lowes Foods grocery store in Concord, NC, next week. The company also plans to close two Lowes Foods stores in Wilmington, NC, and Raleigh, NC, by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sprouts Farmers Markets<\/strong> will open a dozen new locations over the next few months in AZ, CA, FL, MD, NM, PA, SC, TX, and VA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0T&T Supermarket Inc.<\/strong> will open its first location in California in the fall of 2025. The 55,000 sq. ft. store will be in the city of San Jose.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Bliffert Lumber & Hardware<\/strong> has promoted Josh Brown to COO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0CVS Health<\/strong> announced it has hired Heidi Capozzi as Exec VP, Chief People Officer. She succeeds Laurie Havanec, who is leaving the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Guess?, Inc.<\/strong> announced Markus Neubrand is stepping down as CFO. Dennis Secor, Exec VP Finance, has been appointed Interim CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hermes USA<\/strong> reported it will open a new 8,500 sq. ft. store in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mattress Firm Inc.<\/strong> has partnered with DoorDash to offer two-hour delivery.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong> is closing all of its stores in Michigan by the end of September.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> named Tracey Koller as Senior VP and Chief Merchandising Officer. The retailer also named Sharmila Sudhakar as Group VP and Director of Digital Commerce.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0BurgerFi<\/strong> has warned investors that a potential bankruptcy filing is looming. The company secured $2.5 million in emergency funding earlier this month and the company was unable to file their most recent quarterly report due to financial issues.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Burger King<\/strong> is partnering with Walmart<\/strong> to offer discounts and a free whopper to Walmart+ members.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chick-fil-A<\/strong> is launching its own streaming service this fall. The streaming platform is expected to feature unscripted family-friendly programs.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0KFC<\/strong> is testing a new design and technology at 16 Orlando restaurants. The redesigned stores feature digital menus and ordering kiosks along with new streamlined kitchen technology and an upgraded drive-thru. The company also updated the d\u00e9cor and employee uniforms.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Olive Garden<\/strong> is the latest restaurant to return to value meals by bringing back their never-ending pasta bowl.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Panera Bread<\/strong> is launching a new bakery menu that features pastries, cookies, and cake.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Taco Bell<\/strong> is giving franchisees the option to opt out of serving breakfast beginning in October of this year. Breakfast will still be available at all company-owned locations and the company is still working on new breakfast items and an expanded coffee lineup.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Taco John\u2019s<\/strong> is joining the restaurant summer value push by offering a BOGO for a Buck offer for customers who order through the app. This offer follows their $5 Meal Steal bundle that launched earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tony Roma\u2019s<\/strong> has named interim CEO Mohaimina Haque as their permanent CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Bi-Rite Market will open a new supermarket on Polk Street in San Francisco, CA, on August 29. \u2022\u00a0Couche-Tard Inc. will acquire approximately 270 GetGo locations throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana from Giant Eagle Inc. \u2022\u00a0Food Lion LLC celebrated the reopening of 167 stores this week that it had… 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-17720","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\/17720","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=17720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}