{"id":18324,"date":"2017-08-15T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10074"},"modified":"2017-08-15T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:27:42","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-august-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/08\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-august-2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &#038; Convenience Stores \u2013 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Albertsons<\/strong> announced that Kevin Turner has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Managers of AB Acquisition LLC and Senior Advisor to the Chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Fiesta Mart Inc<\/strong>. named Sid Keswani CEO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>The National Grocers Association<\/strong> promoted Laura Strange to VP of Industry Relations, Communications, and Marketing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Southeastern Grocers<\/strong> named Anthony Hucker CEO on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>RaceTrac Petroleum Inc<\/strong>. announced that Allison Moran has stepped down as CEO and an interim leadership structure has been put in place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Instacart<\/strong> will work with <strong>Wegmans, Whole Foods Market, Costco<\/strong> and <strong>Petco<\/strong> to deliver groceries in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Lehigh Valley market reaching an estimated 206,000 households. Wegmans and Instacart will also begin delivery in the Rochester, NY market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Rutter&#8217;s <\/strong>is expanding its headquarters to 23,000 sq. ft. at an estimated cost of $2 million. \u00a0The expansion is expected to be completed in February 2018 adding space for a technology lab, employee recruiting, and an architectural and engineering department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Sprouts Farmers Market<\/strong> plans to expand its relationship with Amazon Prime Now to 20 locations across the chain\u2019s major markets for grocery delivery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Aldi<\/strong> will spend $28 million to renovate 20 stores in the Detroit, MI area by 2019. The remodels will focus on fresh items as well as architectural designs with open ceilings, natural lighting and environmentally-friendly materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Lucky&#8217;s Market<\/strong> will open a new store in Oakland Park, FL its third location in the South Florida market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Kroger Co<\/strong>. will renovate and reopen seven former Marsh Supermarkets stores under the Kroger and Pay Less banners at a cost of $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>GPM Investments LLC<\/strong> acquired seven convenience stores from <strong>Jiffy Stop Food Mart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Kwik Trip Inc<\/strong>. has agreed to acquire employee-owned retailer <strong>PDQ Food Stores<\/strong>; PDQ has 34 company-operated convenience stores in southern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 Albertsons announced that Kevin Turner has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Managers of AB Acquisition LLC and Senior Advisor to the Chairman and CEO. \u2022 Fiesta Mart Inc. named Sid Keswani CEO. \u2022 The National Grocers Association promoted Laura Strange to VP of Industry Relations, Communications, and Marketing. \u2022&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/08\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-august-2017-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &#038; Convenience Stores \u2013 August 2017<\/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-18324","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\/18324","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=18324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}