{"id":18384,"date":"2019-05-29T15:34:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12300"},"modified":"2019-05-29T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:34:31","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-may-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/05\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-may-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022\u00a0Big Y Foods Inc<\/strong>. (85)<\/strong> announced Cas Tryba, Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance, will retire as of July 26.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0CKE Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. (58)<\/strong> promoted Ned Lyerly from International President to CEO.\u00a0 The company announced company veteran Mike Woida will succeed him.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Fred W. Albrecht Grocery<\/strong> Co<\/strong>. (26)<\/strong> has named Nick Albrecht as President of the company. He succeeds Jim Trout who has been appointed VP of Special Projects, a newly created position.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hy-Vee Inc<\/strong>. (110)<\/strong> announced Aaron Wiese was named President of Hy-Vee Pharmacy Solutions and Amber Pharmacy. He succeeds Mike Agostino, who was named Hy-Vee\u2019s VP of Pharmacy Business Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kings Food Markets Inc<\/strong>. (47)<\/strong> has promoted Stephen Palisi-Reynolds to VP and Controller, Karen Roche to VP Marketing, and Laura Wallace to Director of Marketing. Additionally, Don Morris has been hired as Senior Creative Director.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co<\/strong>. (273)<\/strong> announced Dana Zurcher, currently Dallas Division President, has been named President of the Columbus division. She succeeds Dan De La Rosa, who was recently named president of the King Soopers division. Tom Schwilke has been named President of the Dallas division.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kum & Go LLC<\/strong> (80) <\/strong>has appointed Matthew Spackman as Senior VP of its Grow People department, where he will lead the teams of talent acquisition, learning and development, business partner, total rewards, systems and payroll.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Love\u2019s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc<\/strong>. (103)<\/strong> has named Shane Wharton to the newly created position of President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0QuickChek Corp (37)<\/strong> appointed Chris Smyly as Director of Foodservice and Ted Kwiecien as Culinary Specialist.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sobeys Inc<\/strong>. (76)<\/strong> announced Pierre St. Laurent was appointed to the newly created role of COO.<\/p>\n

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Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Grocery Outlet Inc.<\/strong> filed for its initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0EG Group<\/strong> has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 69 convenience stores and gas stations operating in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio from Certified Oil Co<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0EG Group<\/strong> announced it has acquired GB3, a provider of information technology solutions based in the U.K.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Giant Food Stores LLC<\/strong> plans to acquire Ferguson & Hassler, an independent grocer in southeastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Parkland Fuel Corporation<\/strong> has entered into an agreement through its U.S. subsidiary Parkland USA to acquire Ken Bettridge Distributing Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0TravelCenters of America LLC<\/strong> has signed a five-year supply agreement with Core-Mark Holding Company Inc. <\/strong>Core-Mark will provide foodservice offerings to more than 320 of TravelCenters\u2019 corporate-owned travel centers, fuel stores and convenience stores in 42 states.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wawa Inc<\/strong>. is rolling out its new catering offer to all of its convenience stores.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Giant Food Stores LLC<\/strong> recently opened its 100th fuel station in Bethlehem, PA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lidl<\/strong> US, LLC<\/strong> announced it will open four stores on New York\u2019s Long Island by early 2020.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Meijer Inc<\/strong>. recently entered the northeast Ohio market for the first time with the opening of three 155,000 sq. ft. supercenters in the communities of Stow, Avon and Mentor.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Parker Companies<\/strong> announced it will open nine new Parker’s Kitchen locations across the Charleston, SC, area by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0RaceTrac<\/strong> Petroleum Inc<\/strong>. plans to open seven Tennessee locations this year, with the first scheduled to open this fall. Overall, RaceTrac is planning to open up to 50 stores by 2023 throughout Middle Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0TravelCenters of America LLC<\/strong> opened its first TA Express franchise location in Steele, ND. The travel center is the first of four Coffee Cup Fuel Stops rebranding to TA Express. The remaining locations that will be converting are in Vermillion, Summit and Hot Spring, SD.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Whole Foods Market Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to open a 47,398 sq. ft. headquarters office in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a07-Eleven Inc<\/strong>. will now deliver beer and cider to 7Now mobile app customers in 18 select markets nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Enmarket<\/strong> Stations Inc<\/strong>.‘s<\/strong> new Skip Checkout service is now live at all of its 124 convenience stores. The mobile-based application lets customers scan their purchases and pay while skipping checkout lines.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Fresh Market Inc<\/strong>. announced it has launched online grocery delivery through Instacart chainwide.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0QuikTrip Corp<\/strong> is bringing back its former carhop service and rebranding it as carside delivery. Customers at participating QuikTrip convenience stores can place orders for snacks or other in-store items and have them delivered to the fuel pump by a QuikTrip employee.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wegmans Food Markets Inc<\/strong>. announced a partnership with DoorDash, for delivery of meals available through the new Wegmans Meals 2GO app. The plan is to roll out the Wegmans Meals 2GO offering to more than 40 stores by end of 2019, with more to come in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wegmans Food Markets Inc<\/strong>. has gone live with Wegmans SCAN. Customers can use the mobile app to scan groceries as they shop, put them in their cart and\/or reusable bags and then quickly pay for the items at any self-checkout station.<\/p>\n

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Green Initiatives<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Royal Farms<\/strong> and Protec Fuel Management LLC completed the first phase in a sustainability initiative designed to offer Royal Farms customers renewable fuel options with E85 Flex Fuel and Regular 88.<\/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 284 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\u00a0Big Y Foods Inc. (85) announced Cas Tryba, Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance, will retire as of July 26. \u2022\u00a0CKE Restaurants Inc. (58) promoted Ned Lyerly from International President to CEO.\u00a0 The company announced company veteran Mike Woida will succeed him. \u2022\u00a0The Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Co. (26) has named Nick… Continue reading DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 May 2019<\/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-18384","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\/18384","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=18384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}