{"id":19009,"date":"2026-02-20T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=19009"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:18:21","slug":"in-other-business-news-237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/02\/in-other-business-news-237\/","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_buc\">\u2022\u00a0Buc-ee\u2019s Ltd<\/strong>. will open its first store in Ohio in April. The 74,000 sq. ft. travel center will be in Huber Heights, OH.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group<\/strong> has promoted Orma Haywood to the role of Corporate Controller.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_trader\">\u2022\u00a0Trader Joe\u2019s Co<\/strong>. plans to open new locations in Tucson, AZ; West Palm Beach, FL; Johns Creek, GA; Merriam, KS; Mandeville, LA; New Orleans, LA; and Woodinville, WA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Common Man Family of Restaurants <\/strong>recently promoted Sean Brown to CEO of the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_dutch\">\u2022\u00a0Dutch Bros<\/strong>.<strong id=\"link_dutch\"> Coffee<\/strong> reported that it plans to open at least 180 new locations in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Wendy&#8217;s Company<\/strong> reportedly expects to close 300 to 350 restaurants in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Wonder Group, Inc<\/strong>. announced it has opened its first location in Massachusetts. New locations recently opened in Belmont, MA; Framingham, MA; and Natick, MA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Arhaus LLC <\/strong>has named Michael Rengel as Chief Merchandising Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Aritzia Inc<\/strong>. reported it is planning to open a new 40,000 sq. ft. store in Vancouver, BC, in 2027.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Army &amp; Air Force Exchange Service<\/strong> announced that Brad Bingham, currently Deputy Director and CFO, will take over as CEO in July. Tom Shull, Director and CEO, will retire at that time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Boise Cascade Company<\/strong> has recently promoted Angella Broesch to Senior VP of Human Resources. Chris Forrey was promoted to Senior VP of Finance and Investor Relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0IKEA North America<\/strong> will open 10 new locations in 2026, in Huntsville, AL; Phoenix, AZ; Culver City, CA; Fort Collins, CO; Gurnee, IL; Tulsa, OK; Dallas, TX; Webster, TX; and Chantilly, VA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0National Association of Chain Drug Stores<\/strong> announced that Steve Anderson, President and CEO, will retire effective December 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_united\">\u2022\u00a0United Hardware Distributing Co<\/strong>. announced the retirement of its President and CEO, Chad Ruth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store \u2022\u00a0Buc-ee\u2019s Ltd. will open its first store in Ohio in April. The 74,000 sq. ft. travel center will be in Huber Heights, OH. \u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group has promoted Orma Haywood to the role of Corporate Controller. \u2022\u00a0Trader Joe\u2019s Co. plans to open new locations in Tucson, AZ; West Palm Beach, FL;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/02\/in-other-business-news-237\/\">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-19009","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\/19009","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=19009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions\/19013"}],"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=19009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}