{"id":18437,"date":"2020-02-13T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2020-02-13T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:51:04","slug":"datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/02\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Grocery, Supermarket &amp; Convenience Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Casey\u2019s General Stores Inc. (103) <\/strong>has announced Bill Walljasper, Senior VP and CFO, will retire later this year. The retailer also announced the appointment of Brad Haga as VP Merchandising.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The Kroger Co. (257)<\/strong> announced Keith Dailey has been named Group VP of Corporate Affairs. He takes over from Jessica Adelman, who recently left the retailer to pursue other opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 United Natural Foods Inc. (32)<\/strong> announced John Howard has been appointed CFO. Eric Dorne has been appointed COO. Sean Griffin has announced his retirement effective July 31, 2020. Paul Green will take on a new role as President, Fresh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Smoker Friendly International LLC<\/strong> has acquired Tobacco Road Outlet\u2019s 22 stores in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Ahold-Delhaize<\/strong> has revealed that it will close the Midwest division of its Peapod online grocery sales business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Summerwood Partners LLC<\/strong> debuted its first self-checkout lane. The cashierless technology allows guests to pay for their purchases using a touchscreen kiosk at checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 Casey\u2019s General Stores Inc. (103) has announced Bill Walljasper, Senior VP and CFO, will retire later this year. The retailer also announced the appointment of Brad Haga as VP Merchandising. \u2022 The Kroger Co. (257) announced Keith Dailey has been named Group VP of Corporate Affairs. He takes over from Jessica Adelman,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/02\/datatrac-grocery-supermarket-convenience-stores-12-2\/\">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-18437","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\/18437","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=18437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}