{"id":18394,"date":"2019-08-27T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2019-08-27T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:58:28","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-august-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/08\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-august-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 Albertsons LLC (184)<\/strong> has recently named Johnathan Gardner its Group VP of Strategic Sourcing and David Nelson its Group VP of Manufacturing. The company also announced it has appointed Gineal Davidson as President of its Portland division. In addition, Mike Theilmann is joining the company as Exec VP and Chief Human Resources Officer. Albertsons announced that Shane Sampson, Exec VP and Chief Marketing and Merchandising Officer, has decided to leave the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brookshire Grocery Co. (110)<\/strong> announced Suzanne Osbourn has been promoted to VP, Partner Relations and Development, and Jason Cooper has been promoted to VP, Corporate Development and Real Estate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Casey\u2019s General Stores Inc. (89)<\/strong> announced Terry Handley, its President and CEO, has left the company. Darren Rebelez will take over.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Grocery Manufacturers Association (12)<\/strong> has hired Bryan Zumwalt as Exec VP, Public Affairs and Stacy Papadopoulos as General Counsel and Senior VP of Operations and Special Initiatives.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Harps Food Stores Inc.<\/strong> (42)<\/strong> announced J. Max Van Hoose has been promoted to Exec VP.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co. (274)<\/strong> has named Sonya Hostetler as President of the Nashville division. She succeeds Zane Day, who is retiring.<\/p>\n

\u2022 MFA Oil Co. (21)<\/strong> named Jon Ihler as its new President and CEO. The company also appointed Jeff Raetz as its CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 National Grocers Association (14)<\/strong> has appointed Greg Ferrara as the next President and CEO. Effective September 1, he will succeed Peter Larkin when he retires.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stater Bros. Holdings Inc. (83)<\/strong> has announced George Frahm, the longtime President of the company, plans to retire on Oct. 31, 2019. He will be succeeded by Greg McNiff.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Bowden Oil Company Inc.<\/strong> has exited the convenience-store industry by selling its chain of 17 Shop \u201cN\u201d Fill Food Mart locations to Majors Management LLC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 EG America LLC<\/strong> has entered into an agreement to acquire Cumberland Farms Inc.<\/strong> and its 562 convenience stores in the Northeast and Florida.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Giant Food Stores LLC<\/strong> has entered into an agreement with Musser’s Market<\/strong> to acquire its three Pennsylvania locations in Columbia, Lebanon and Quarryville.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Riiser Fuels LLC<\/strong> has acquired Jetz Convenience Centers’ four c-stores in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 H-E-B<\/strong> announced it plans to build a 150,000 square foot technology center at its San Antonio, TX, headquarters.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Aldi Inc.<\/strong> announced plans to open four stores in North Carolina, eight new stores across Minnesota, and its first store in Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Giant Food Stores LLC<\/strong> announced it will open a two-level, 65,000 sq. ft. urban flagship in downtown Philadelphia, PA. The new store is expected to open by fall of 2020.<\/p>\n

\u2022 King Kullen Grocery Co. Inc.<\/strong> is closing three supermarkets in New York.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wakefern Food Corp.<\/strong> plans to remodel 17 more Price Rite Marketplace stores this year in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania, with additional locations slated for redesign in 2020.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 7-Eleven Inc.<\/strong> has introduced mobile checkout in New York, using the 7-Eleven app.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Giant Eagle Inc.<\/strong> is teaming with Grabango, a checkout-free technology provider, on a first-of-its-kind partnership to create a no-wait checkout experience.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wakefern Food Corp.<\/strong> is opening a fulfillment center in Clifton, NJ that leverages hyperlocal, automated technology from Takeoff Technologies. The technology uses advanced robotics in which orders of up to 60 grocery items can be assembled in minutes.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Weis Markets Inc.<\/strong> has added Weis 2 Go online ordering with pickup and home delivery to 61 more stores, bringing the total number of locations offering the service to 150.<\/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 132\u00a0companies 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 Albertsons LLC (184) has recently named Johnathan Gardner its Group VP of Strategic Sourcing and David Nelson its Group VP of Manufacturing. The company also announced it has appointed Gineal Davidson as President of its Portland division. In addition, Mike Theilmann is joining the company as Exec VP and Chief Human Resources… Continue reading DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket & Convenience Stores \u2013 August 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-18394","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\/18394","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=18394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}