{"id":18434,"date":"2020-02-07T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=13253"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:05:09","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/02\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-11-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &amp; Convenience Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0EG America LLC (14)<\/strong> has named George Fournier as its new President. He succeeds Jay Erickson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Enmarket Stations Inc. (44)<\/strong> announced Ryan Krebs as its new Director of Foodservice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0McLane Company, Inc.<\/strong><strong> (20)<\/strong> announced Susan Adzick has been promoted to Exec VP and COO. She will transition to President of McLane Foodservice in July 2020, succeeding current leader Tom Zatina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Earth Fare Healthy Supermarkets<\/strong> filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Foxtrot Ventures Inc.<\/strong> received a $17 million growth funding round and has two new locations slated to open soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Fareway Stores Inc.<\/strong> is purchasing the assets of McGonigle&#8217;s Food Store Inc., in Kansas City, MO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Majors Management LLC<\/strong> has purchased the dealer distribution business of <strong>McPherson Companies<\/strong>. The deal includes 185 retail fuel supply contracts and will help expand Majors&#8217; presence in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Fresh Grocer<\/strong> is growing its store count by 50% and entering a new state with the addition of independent operator <strong>Nicholas Markets<\/strong>. The grocer is slated to reopen its four New Jersey stores under The Fresh Grocer name starting this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Lucky\u2019s Market, LLC<\/strong> has entered into asset purchase agreements with Southeastern Grocers, Seabra Foods and Hitchcock\u2019s Markets, for a total of seven Florida locations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a07-Eleven Inc.<\/strong> has begun testing a cashierless, checkout-free store at its corporate headquarters in Irving, TX.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Coborn&#8217;s Inc.,<\/strong> which operates 38 retail pharmacy locations at some of its grocery stores, has integrated ExpressRx Track, a prescription-processing system that can initially dispense up to 2,000 prescriptions per eight-hour shift with 99.99% accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0EG America LLC (14) has named George Fournier as its new President. He succeeds Jay Erickson. \u2022\u00a0Enmarket Stations Inc. (44) announced Ryan Krebs as its new Director of Foodservice. \u2022\u00a0McLane Company, Inc. (20) announced Susan Adzick has been promoted to Exec VP and COO. She will transition to President of McLane Foodservice in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/02\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-11-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &amp; Convenience Stores<\/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-18434","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\/18434","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=18434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}