{"id":18336,"date":"2018-07-16T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10762"},"modified":"2018-07-16T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:41:48","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-july-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/07\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-july-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 7-Eleven Inc. (51)<\/strong> announced that Jesus Delgado-Jenkins, Chief Merchandising Officer and Exec VP, is retiring.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yesway (29)<\/strong> has hired Derek Gaskins as Senior VP of Merchandising and Procurement, and Jeff Keune as Senior VP of Foodservice and Innovation.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Couche-Tard Inc.<\/strong> announced an agreement with Irving Oil Ltd. to rebrand 36 of its CST sites to Circle K and the Irving fuel brand. The agreement includes selling 13 of these former CST retail sites to Irving Oil. Couche-Tard will continue to operate the sites.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Empire Petroleum Partners<\/strong> has acquired the wholesale distribution business of Willoughby Oil Company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Herdrich Petroleum Corp. Inc.<\/strong> has purchased four Kelly’s convenience stores with gasoline from Kelly Oil Co. Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Imperial Trading<\/strong> has purchased S. Abraham & Sons Inc<\/strong>., where things will remain business as usual.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc.<\/strong> has purchased the three remaining Safeway stores in Florida from Albertsons LLC<\/strong>. Located in Altamonte Springs, Largo and Oakland Park, the three locations will continue operating under the Safeway banner until early September.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc.<\/strong> announced that it has acquired a Winn-Dixie located in Gulf Shores, AL from Winn-Dixie Stores Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Yesway<\/strong> has acquired 13 Chisum Travel Center and Fast Stop convenience stores in Texas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yesway<\/strong> announced the acquisition of 26 Fresh Start Convenience<\/strong> stores in South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co.<\/strong> announced it will launch a new private-label apparel brand in the fall. Called Dip, the clothing line will include apparel for the whole family.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Supervalu Inc.<\/strong> proposed a reorganization of its corporate structure where it will separate its retail operations and grocery wholesale divisions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tom Thumb <\/strong>opened its first convenience store, Tom Thumb Express, last month in Dallas, TX.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 The Fresh Market Inc.<\/strong> announced that it will close 15 stores in the next month in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co.<\/strong> announced that it will exit the Raleigh-Durham market in August, by closing and selling its 14 locations there.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wakefern Food Corp.<\/strong> has opened its first ShopRite store in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The 38,000 sq. ft. store is owned and operated by Village Super Market Inc., a member of the Wakefern cooperative.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Giant Eagle Inc.<\/strong> has launched Scan Pay & Go, a new service that enables customers to use their smartphones or a store-provided device to scan groceries as they shop.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hy-Vee Inc.<\/strong> announced it will partner with Instacart and Shipt to expand its delivery footprint and provide shopping options for customers in more than two dozen markets.<\/p>\n

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Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 193 companies in the Supermarket, Grocery, & Convenience Stores PLUS Database, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 7-Eleven Inc. (51) announced that Jesus Delgado-Jenkins, Chief Merchandising Officer and Exec VP, is retiring. \u2022 Yesway (29) has hired Derek Gaskins as Senior VP of Merchandising and Procurement, and Jeff Keune as Senior VP of Foodservice and Innovation.   Mergers and Acquisitions \u2022 Couche-Tard Inc. announced an agreement with Irving Oil… Continue reading DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 July 2018<\/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-18336","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\/18336","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=18336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}