{"id":18075,"date":"2025-02-28T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18075"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:20:52","slug":"in-other-business-news-191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/02\/in-other-business-news-191\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Big Y Foods Inc<\/strong>. appointed Michael Pashko as Director of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp<\/strong>. announced it plans to open 33 to 35 new stores this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group<\/strong> has hired Kim Cates as VP Center Store.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Metro Inc<\/strong>. has named Nicolas Amyot as Exec VP, CFO and Treasurer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Parker Companies <\/strong>has promoted John Rhine to Senior VP Finance and Accounting. Scott Smith has been promoted to VP of Information Technology. Tom Rutledge has been promoted to Senior Director of Construction.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Belk Inc<\/strong>. reported it will open new outlet stores in existing stores in North Carolina in which the bottom level will be the outlet store and the top level will continue to operate as traditional Belk stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Boise Cascade Company<\/strong> has promoted Nathan Sikes to Senior VP of its Western Operations for its Building Materials Distribution Division.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ikea North America<\/strong> plans to open eight new smaller format stores this year in AZ, CA, MD, PA, and OR.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Jo-Ann Stores Inc<\/strong>. will conduct going-out-of-business sales at all its store locations, after filing for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kodiak Building Partners<\/strong> has appointed Kevin Prosser as Area VP, LBM Idaho and Wyoming.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lids Sports Group<\/strong> has announced the appointment of Greg Cox as its new CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0National Association of Chain Drug Stores<\/strong> announced that Jim Whitman, Senior VP Member Services, will retire in June 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ross Stores Inc<\/strong>. has announced Adam Orvos will retire as Exec VP and CFO, effective September 30. William Sheehan, Group Senior VP of Finance, is expected to succeed Adam Orvos as CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Scheels Sports<\/strong> announced it plans to open a 210,000 sq. ft. location in Wauwatosa, WI, in spring 2027.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The TJX Companies Inc<\/strong>. reportedly plans to open 130 new stores in 2025. The retailer plans to relocate 40 stores and remodel 500 stores in 2025, as well.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. has recently partnered with Grubhub for a delivery option.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Westlake Ace Hardware<\/strong> plans to open a new 12,500 sq. ft. store in Shawnee, KS, late this year.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Denny\u2019s<\/strong> is the latest company to add an egg surcharge as egg prices continue to rise.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dickey\u2019s<\/strong> has made their sausage available in 400 grocery stores .<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Golden Corral<\/strong> has closed their fast-casual spinoff. The company is planning to re-brand it as Golden Corral Favorites and reopen in the future.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Jack in the Box<\/strong> CEO Darin Harris has announced his retirement. Lance Tucker will take over the role in interim until a successor can be found<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Outback<\/strong> is cutting the menu back by almost 20%. The company is also changing its marketing strategy and pulling back from opening new locations, opting instead to renovate existing locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Red Robin<\/strong> is evaluating 70 underperforming restaurants for possible closure this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Subway<\/strong> is jumping back into value offerings by brining back their $6.99 footlong promotion.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sweetgreen<\/strong> is launching their first french fries. The company is know for health conscious food and the fries will be air fried instead of the traditional deep frying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Big Y Foods Inc. appointed Michael Pashko as Director of Pharmacy. \u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. announced it plans to open 33 to 35 new stores this year. \u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group has hired Kim Cates as VP Center Store. \u2022\u00a0Metro Inc. has named Nicolas Amyot as Exec VP, CFO and Treasurer. \u2022\u00a0The… 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-18075","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\/18075","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=18075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}