{"id":18479,"date":"2025-05-02T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18182"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:17:02","slug":"in-other-business-news-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/05\/in-other-business-news-200\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0The Fresh Market Inc<\/strong>. recently opened new store locations in Jensen Beach, FL, Mount Pleasant, SC, and Wethersfield, CT.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The National Grocers Association<\/strong> has appointed Kelly Hanson as Director of Education and Insights.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sobey\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. reported that its CEO and President, Michael Medline, plans to retire from the company in May 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0T & T Supermarket Inc<\/strong>. has announced that it will open its first store in Southern California in winter 2026. The 34,000 sq. ft. location will be located in Irvine, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0United Supermarkets, LLC<\/strong> has recently opened its 100th<\/sup> grocery store location.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>. has promoted Shane Burnworth to the role of True Value Divisional Merchandise Manager.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar Tree Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced that Roxanne Weng has been appointed as Chief Supply Chain Officer. Mike Kindy, who previously held the position, will retire.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hudson\u2019s Bay Company<\/strong> has started to liquidate all of its remaining stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0National Vision Holdings, Inc<\/strong>. has appointed Alex Wilkes as its new CEO, effective August 1, 2025. Wilkes succeeds Reade Fahs, who will assume the role of Executive Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Owens Corning<\/strong> has appointed Rachel Marcon as President of the company’s Doors Business. He will succeed Chris Ball, who recently resigned from the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Rural King Supply<\/strong> recently opened a new store in Kingsport, TN.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Variety Wholesalers Inc<\/strong>. plans to reopen 132 of the acquired Big Lots locations, in May.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a07 Brew Drive-Thru Coffee<\/strong> announced Stephanie Quillen has been named as its first Chief People Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bertucci\u2019s Corporation<\/strong> has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Culver Franchising Systems Inc<\/strong>. has named Julie Fussner as its new CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Innovative Food Brands<\/strong> reported it plans to open 25 new Chopped Leaf<\/strong> restaurants this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Jack in the Box Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to close as many as 200 of its restaurants, with 80 to 120 closing this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Killer Burger, Inc<\/strong>. announced Adam Sanders has been promoted to CEO, replacing John Dikos.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0McDonald\u2019s Corporation<\/strong> announced Pat Myers has been named Chief People Officer of the United States. Jordann Nunn will transition into her role as Chief Field People Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sweetgreen, Inc<\/strong>. announced the appointment of Jason Cochran as COO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0T.G.I. Friday’s Inc<\/strong>. announced the appointment of Phil Broad as President of International Franchising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0The Fresh Market Inc. recently opened new store locations in Jensen Beach, FL, Mount Pleasant, SC, and Wethersfield, CT. \u2022\u00a0The National Grocers Association has appointed Kelly Hanson as Director of Education and Insights. \u2022\u00a0Sobey\u2019s Inc. reported that its CEO and President, Michael Medline, plans to retire from the company in May… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/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":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479","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=18479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}