{"id":18280,"date":"2016-06-13T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2016-06-13T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:11:50","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-june-2016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/06\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-june-2016-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

DATA<\/span><\/strong>TRAC <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Buehler\u2019s Fresh Foods<\/strong> announced the hiring of Michael Davidson as VP Store Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Coborn\u2019s <\/strong>announced the hiring of Jim Shaw as CFO; Mr. Shaw replaces Tom Velin.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Fairway<\/strong> announced the departure of Co-President and CFO, Edward Arditte on July 5th, 2016; no replacement has been announced at this time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Giant Eagle <\/strong>announced the retirement of John Lucot President and COO; they also announced CEO Laura Karet will become COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Kroger <\/strong>announced that Russ Dispense President of the King Soopers division will retire on July 1st, 2016; no replacement was announced at this time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Smart & Final<\/strong> announced the hiring of Edward Wong CIO and Senior VP of Supply Chain.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Stark & Van Til<\/strong> announced the promotion of Jeff Strack to President and CEO while continuing his role continue as Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Weis Markets<\/strong> announced the promotions of Wayne Bailey to Senior VP of Logistics and Supply Chain and Bob Cline to VP of Talent Development and Associate Relations.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Amazon<\/strong> has paired with Sprouts Farmers Market<\/strong> to deliver grocery in Dallas, TX.\u00a0 Customers will be able shop for items from Sprouts Farmers Market<\/strong> through the Prime Now app and website.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Casey\u2019s General Stores <\/strong>plans to open or acquire 77 to 116 locations, replace 35 existing locations and have 100 major remodels completed in fiscal year 2017.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Harps Food Stores<\/strong> is planning to acquire nine Walmart<\/strong> Express<\/strong> properties that closed earlier this year. The properties are located in Arkansas and Missouri.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>M&M Meat Shops <\/strong>has changed the company\u2019s store name to M&M Food Market <\/strong>as part of a total brand reinvention. With the name change, comes a new store experience with many added features.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Whole Foods <\/strong>has opened the first 365 by Whole Foods Market in Los Angeles, CA. The new location is in the Silver Lake neighborhood, measuring 29,000 square feet. Whole Foods also announced the start of \u201cMy 365 Rewards\u201d, a digital loyalty program.<\/p>\n

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Financial Focus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Casey\u2019s General Stores <\/strong>announced total sales of $7.12 billion for FYE 4\/30\/2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DATATRAC Personnel Updates \u2022 Buehler\u2019s Fresh Foods announced the hiring of Michael Davidson as VP Store Operations. \u2022 Coborn\u2019s announced the hiring of Jim Shaw as CFO; Mr. Shaw replaces Tom Velin. \u2022 Fairway announced the departure of Co-President and CFO, Edward Arditte on July 5th, 2016; no replacement has been announced at this time.… Continue reading DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 June 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grocery-convenience","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}