{"id":19104,"date":"2026-04-17T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=19104"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:27:07","slug":"in-other-business-news-245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/04\/in-other-business-news-245\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_7-eleven\">\u2022 7-Eleven Inc<\/strong>. plans to close 645 stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico during its current fiscal year. The company also plans to open 200 new stores in North America in the same period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The Giant Company<\/strong> is\u202fopening a new 39,000 sq. ft. grocery store in Ephrata, PA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc<\/strong>. will open a new location in Rock Springs, WY, this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Pilot Flying J <\/strong>announced Jeremy Osterstock has been appointed as its new CFO. He recently left<strong> Exxon Mobil Corporation. <\/strong>He will replace the outgoing CFO, Joe Lillo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Denny\u2019s Corporation <\/strong>has named Christopher Bode as its new CEO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 GoTo Foods <\/strong>reported Biplav Misra has been named as its new Chief Digital Officer. Tatiana Lambert has been named as the \u00a0company\u2019s new Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Marco\u2019s Franchising LLC <\/strong>announced a franchise deal to open 12 locations in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Mo\u2019 Bettahs Hawaiian Style Food <\/strong>plans to open new locations in three new markets in 2026. The company will open two locations each in Phoenix, AZ, Indianapolis, IN, and Minneapolis, MN.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_salad\">\u2022 Salad Collective<\/strong> announced it has named John Montgomery as its new CEO. He succeeds Darden Coors who has taken on the role of Chairman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Topgolf International, Inc<\/strong>. announced Jay Spears has been appointed as its new Chief Information Officer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 ABC Supply Co<\/strong>.<strong> Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Michelle Dagenais to Managing Director of its Canadian Operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_adoff\">\u2022 Aboff&#8217;s Paints &amp; Wallcoverings<\/strong> reported it has acquired <strong>Vienna Paint<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"link_kendra\">\u2022 Kendra Scott LLC<\/strong> announced that Mike McMullen has been named as its new CFO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Nation\u2019s Best Holdings LLC<\/strong> has recently promoted Kim Peffley to Chief Operating Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Vuori Clothing<\/strong> reported it has named Heather Archibald as its first Chief Product Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store \u2022 7-Eleven Inc. plans to close 645 stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico during its current fiscal year. The company also plans to open 200 new stores in North America in the same period. \u2022 The Giant Company is\u202fopening a new 39,000 sq. ft. grocery store in Ephrata, PA.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/04\/in-other-business-news-245\/\">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-19104","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\/19104","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=19104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19108,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104\/revisions\/19108"}],"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=19104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}