{"id":19434,"date":"2026-10-23T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:22:54","slug":"in-other-business-news-270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/10\/in-other-business-news-270\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 Buc-ee’s<\/strong> announced Oct. 20 plans for a 74,000-square-foot travel center with 120 fueling positions in Rocky Mount, NC, which would be its second North Carolina location.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Buehler’s Fresh Foods<\/strong> agreed to acquire three Sander’s Markets grocery stores in Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kroger<\/strong> unveiled three new store formats at its Oct. 20 investor day and plans to open about 110 new stores through 2029.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nouria Energy<\/strong> named Joy Almekies Director of Fresh Food and Culinary.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sprouts Farmers Market<\/strong> opened stores in Bedford, TX, and Conyers and Newnan, GA, on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n


\nRestaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Meritage Hospitality Group<\/strong> filed Oct. 21 to sell 42 Wendy’s restaurants in Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee for $18.6 million as part of its Chapter 11 case.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pollo Campero<\/strong> named former CKE International COO Julio S\u00e1nchez CEO of its U.S. business.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sweetgreen<\/strong> hired former Shake Shack culinary leader John Karangis as Executive Chef and SVP of Culinary.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tom’s Watch Bar<\/strong> named Co-CEO Shannon McNiel sole CEO, effective immediately.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tropical Smoothie Cafe<\/strong> signed a 40-unit development agreement with Aurify Kingstar covering New York and Connecticut.<\/p>\n


\nRetail<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 David’s Bridal<\/strong> signed a nonbinding letter of intent to take its Pearl wedding-planning platform public through a merger with K&F Growth Acquisition Corp. II.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dollar Tree<\/strong> opened its 9,500th store, in Suffolk, VA, on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n

\u2022 LCBO<\/strong> named interim leader Aaron Campbell President and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Torrid<\/strong> named former Belk CFO Will Langley Interim CFO, effective Oct. 28, following the resignation of Paula Dempsey.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tractor Supply<\/strong> named former Home Depot CIO Fahim Siddiqui EVP and Chief Technology and Digital Officer, effective Oct. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 Buc-ee’s announced Oct. 20 plans for a 74,000-square-foot travel center with 120 fueling positions in Rocky Mount, NC, which would be its second North Carolina location. \u2022 Buehler’s Fresh Foods agreed to acquire three Sander’s Markets grocery stores in Ohio. \u2022 Kroger unveiled three new store formats at its Oct.… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18504,"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-19434","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\/19434","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19435,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/19435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}