{"id":18016,"date":"2025-01-17T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18016"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:45:26","slug":"in-other-business-news-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/01\/in-other-business-news-185\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Earth Fare Healthy Supermarkets <\/strong>will close its grocery store in Ballantyne, NC, this month.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Foxtrot Ventures Inc<\/strong>. will reopen its convenience store in Dallas, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp<\/strong>. will open three new supermarkets in northeast Ohio within the next month.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0New Seasons Market<\/strong> announced its CEO, Nancy Lebold, has left the company. Dave Kauder will take on the position of Senior VP of Retail.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tops Markets LLC<\/strong> has promoted John McCaffrey to Senior VP Operations. He succeeds Mike Patti, who is retiring.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wegmans Food Markets Inc<\/strong>. reported it is planning to open a new 115,000 sq. ft. grocery store in Cranberry Township, PA.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Advance Auto Parts<\/strong> has named Shweta Bhatia as Exec VP and CTO. She succeeds Sri Donthi.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0BJ\u2019s Wholesale Club<\/strong> Holdings Inc<\/strong>. will open a new location this week in Maryville, TN.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>. recently named Skiler Lehman as its new Director of Ecommerce.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Family Dollar Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced its Chief Merchandising Officer, Lawrence Gatta Jr., will leave the company at the end of its fiscal year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Filson Company<\/strong> announced it has named Tim Bantle as its new President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Jo-Ann Stores Inc<\/strong>. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kohl\u2019s Corporation<\/strong> plans to close 27 underperforming stores in AL, AR, CA, CO, GA, ID, IL, MA, NJ, OH, OR, PA, TX, UT, and VA by April 2025. The retailer is also closing its distribution center in San Bernardino, CA in May.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Macy\u2019s Inc.<\/strong> reported it plans to close 66 Macy\u2019s store locations in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, and WA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0National Retail Federation<\/strong> reported that Robert W. Eddy was elected Chairman. He succeeds John Furner.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc<\/strong>. has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0W.E. Aubuchon Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. will acquire three Noble Ace Hardware<\/strong> stores in Cambridge, NY, Cobleskill, NY, and Rutland, VT. \u00a0The stores will be rebranded to Aubuchon Ace Hardware.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Westlake Ace Hardware<\/strong> announced it will acquire Augusta Ace Home Center<\/strong>, in Augusta, KS. The acquisition will be completed on March 17, 2025.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Captain D\u2019s<\/strong> has announced their first expansion in Europe with a 20-unit franchise agreement in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chipotle<\/strong> has invested in a new plant-based protein and in methane reduction technology as part of their Cultivate Next Venture Fund.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Church\u2019s Chicken<\/strong> has named Alisa P. Cleek as Chief Legal Officer and Navin Sharma as Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0El Pollo Loco<\/strong> is finally testing their first chicken sandwich.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Krispy Krunchy Chicken<\/strong> has named Jim Zielke as Chief Financial Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0La Madeleine<\/strong> has named John Dillon as President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Panera Bread<\/strong> has named Robin Seward as Senior VP, Brand and Integrated Marketing, and Scott Uehlein as VP Culinary.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Papa John\u2019s<\/strong> new CEO is committed to returning funding to local advertising after the company made cutbacks last year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Portillo\u2019s<\/strong> is adding new technology that will alert managers when customers have been in the drive-thru too long.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Twin Peaks<\/strong> plans to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Jan. 30 under the ticker symbol TWNP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Earth Fare Healthy Supermarkets will close its grocery store in Ballantyne, NC, this month. \u2022\u00a0Foxtrot Ventures Inc. will reopen its convenience store in Dallas, TX. \u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. will open three new supermarkets in northeast Ohio within the next month. \u2022\u00a0New Seasons Market announced its CEO, Nancy Lebold, has left… 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-18016","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\/18016","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=18016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}