{"id":19124,"date":"2026-05-01T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=19124"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:47:21","slug":"in-other-business-news-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/05\/in-other-business-news-247\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Brookshire Grocery Co<\/strong>., FreshDirect Inc<\/strong>., Harps Food Stores Inc<\/strong>. and Market of Choice <\/strong>have recently partnered with DoorDash to offer delivery options to their customers.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Nugget Market Inc<\/strong>. recently opened a new 43,000 sq. ft. location in Rocklin, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Royal Farms <\/strong>reported it will open its first convenience store in South Carolina in May. The new store will be in Myrtle Beach.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tom Thumb Food Stores Inc<\/strong>. recently opened a new 59,000 sq. ft. convenience store in Midlothian, TX.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii <\/strong>plans to open a new store in Gulf Shores, AL, in early June. The company plans to open 10 locations in the area, and a total of 30 new locations this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bojangles Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first restaurant in Oklahoma, in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chipotle Mexican Gril<\/strong>l, Inc<\/strong>. announced Fernando Machado has been named Chief Brand Officer, effective June 1. The company also named Arlie Sisson as its Chief Digital Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Diversified Restaurant Group, LLC <\/strong>has promoted Todd Kelly to its new Brand President. The company promoted Tom Douglas to the role of COO. Jason Dunn was appointed as Chief Restaurant Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mountain Mike\u2019s Pizza <\/strong>has promoted Ryan Lulow to role of CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Taco John\u2019s International Inc<\/strong>. reported it has named Ian Poole as its new VP of Development.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Bath & Body Works <\/strong>has named Veronique Gabai-Pinsky as its first Chief Brand\u202f& Product Officer, effective May 18.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc<\/strong>. announced that Kyla Robinson has been appointed as its new Chief Technology Transformation Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Claire\u2019s Holding LLC<\/strong> announced it is relocating its headquarters from Hoffman Estates, IL, to Rosemont, IL. The new space is expected to open in early 2027.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Jill, Inc<\/strong>. has named Kimberly Wallengren as Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lowe’s Companies Inc<\/strong>. reported it will open five new stores this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0New Era Cap Co., Inc<\/strong>. reported it recently opened a flagship store in New York City, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Brookshire Grocery Co., FreshDirect Inc., Harps Food Stores Inc. and Market of Choice have recently partnered with DoorDash to offer delivery options to their customers. \u2022\u00a0Nugget Market Inc. recently opened a new 43,000 sq. ft. location in Rocklin, CA. \u2022\u00a0Royal Farms reported it will open its first convenience store in South… 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-19124","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\/19124","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=19124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19126,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19124\/revisions\/19126"}],"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=19124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}