{"id":18706,"date":"2025-09-05T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18706"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:44:27","slug":"in-other-business-news-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/09\/in-other-business-news-216\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-CSG_Sales_Leads.aspx?utm_source=newsroom&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=inside_ad&amp;utm_content=Offthechain_Core_ad2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/morewaystoconnect2021_300x300.png\" alt=\"Free Trial\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong id=\"link_united\">\u2022 United Natural Foods Inc<\/strong>. is planning to close its <strong>Shoppers Food <\/strong>stores in Essex, New Carrollton, Waldorf, and Westminster, MD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_caribou\">\u2022 Caribou Coffee Co<\/strong>. has appointed Scott Kennedy as its new President and CEO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Chipotle Mexican Grill<\/strong>,<strong> Inc<\/strong>. announced its Chief Accounting and Administrative Officer, Jamie McConnell, is leaving the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Fat Brands, Inc<\/strong>. announced Andy Wiederhorn has returned to the company as CEO. Ken Kuick will return to his role as CFO. Taylor Wiederhorn will serve as Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_jersey\">\u2022 Jersey Mike\u2019s Franchise Systems <\/strong>announced the appointment of Stacy Peterson as President and COO. She will replace Mike Manzo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Sweetgreen, Inc<\/strong>. announced the appointment of Zipporah Allen as the company\u2019s new Chief Commercial Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Twin Hospitality Group Inc<\/strong>. has announced the appointment of Ken Brendemihl as President of <strong>Smokey Bones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Ace Hardware Corp<\/strong>. reported it plans to remodel more than 80 stores over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Aritzia Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first store in Utah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Best Buy Co. Inc<\/strong>. has recently partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery service to its customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_claire\">\u2022 Claire\u2019s Holdings LLC <\/strong>plans to close 235 Claire\u2019s and 56 Icing stores as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Crocs Inc.<\/strong> has announced the appointment of Patraic Reagan as Exec VP and CFO of the company, effective September 22, 2025. He will succeed Susan Healy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Do it Best Corp.<\/strong> has appointed Morgan Lewis as its new Director of Human Resources for both Do it Best and <strong>True Value Company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Dollar Tree Stores Inc.<\/strong> has partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery options to its customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Rocky\u2019s Ace Hardware<\/strong> recently opened a new location in Manchester, CT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Skechers USA Inc<\/strong>. has opened a new 26,017 sq. ft. store in Miami, FL. The location is a new \u201cperformance\u201d store concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store \u2022 United Natural Foods Inc. is planning to close its Shoppers Food stores in Essex, New Carrollton, Waldorf, and Westminster, MD. &nbsp; Restaurant \u2022 Caribou Coffee Co. has appointed Scott Kennedy as its new President and CEO. \u2022 Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. announced its Chief Accounting and Administrative Officer, Jamie McConnell,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/09\/in-other-business-news-216\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-with-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18707,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions\/18707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}