{"id":18767,"date":"2025-10-10T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18767"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:01:51","slug":"in-other-business-news-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/10\/in-other-business-news-221\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. is planning to close four Amazon Fresh<\/strong> stores in Southern California.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hy-Vee Inc. <\/strong>announced it will acquire the County Market<\/strong> grocery store in Wausau, WI, and the adjacent Circle K<\/strong> convenience store. The company will rebrand the locations to Hy-Vee and Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Island Pacific Supermarket <\/strong>has opened a new store in Federal Way, WA. \u00a0It is the first location in the state.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Cava Group<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its 400th<\/sup> store location.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chick-fil-A Inc<\/strong>. reported it is planning to open six new restaurants in Oregon by early 2027.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0FB Society<\/strong> recently opened its fifth Mexican Sugar<\/strong> location. The 9,000 sq. ft. restaurant is in Addison, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0In-N-Out Burger<\/strong> reportedly plans to open five new locations in CA, CO, and TN.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Inspire Brands<\/strong> recently opened its 10,000th<\/sup> Dunkin\u2019 location in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Inc<\/strong>. announced plans to open over 300 Popeyes restaurants in Mexico over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Raising Cane\u2019s LLC<\/strong> announced plans to open seven new locations across the east coast this month in CT, DC, DE, FL, NY, and OH.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Razzoo\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Restaurant Brands International Inc<\/strong>., has named Carolina Berti as its new Chief Marketing Officer at Firehouse Subs <\/strong>for the U.S. and Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Smoothie King Franchises Inc<\/strong>. has entered two new states. The company recently opened its first locations in Minnesota and Utah.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Twin Hospitality Group Inc<\/strong>. announced it has appointed Melissa Fry as Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a01-800 FLOWERS.com Inc<\/strong>. has announced the appointment of Melanie Babcock as its new Chief Marketing and Growth Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Batteries Plus LLC<\/strong> will open two new locations in Delaware. The new stores will mean the company now has stores in all 50 U.S. states.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Carhartt<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. has opened its first store in New York City. The 5,000 sq. ft. store is in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Five Below Inc<\/strong>. has announced the appointment of Daniel Sullivan as its new CFO. Michelle Israel has been named Chief Merchandising Officer of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Orvis Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. announced it will close 31 full-price stores and 5 of its outlet stores by early 2026. The retailer will no longer sell apparel.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Parksite Inc<\/strong>. announced its CFO, Ron Barthel, will retire. The company has appointed Jason Miele to take over the role.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Recreational Equipment Inc<\/strong>. reported it is closing its stores in Boston, MA, New York City, NY, and Paramus, NJ, in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong> has closed all its store locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tart Lumber Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. promoted Virginia Lewis to the role of President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Uniqlo<\/strong> reported it will open 11 new stores next spring and summer in CA, DC, IL, MA, MD, NY, and WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc. is planning to close four Amazon Fresh stores in Southern California. \u2022\u00a0Hy-Vee Inc. announced it will acquire the County Market grocery store in Wausau, WI, and the adjacent Circle K convenience store. The company will rebrand the locations to Hy-Vee and Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh stores. \u2022\u00a0Island Pacific Supermarket… Continue reading 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-18767","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\/18767","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=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18769,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions\/18769"}],"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=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}