{"id":19442,"date":"2026-10-30T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=19442"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:03:37","slug":"in-other-business-news-271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/10\/in-other-business-news-271\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 Cosentino’s Food Stores<\/strong> opened its first ChopMore! cost-plus discount store Oct. 27 in Kansas City, MO, converting a former Price Chopper.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Green Trail Fuels<\/strong> acquired all 25 Littlefield Express convenience stores and travel centers in Arkansas and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\u2022 H-E-B<\/strong> opened a 125,000-square-foot store on San Antonio’s far East Side on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kroger<\/strong> broke ground Oct. 29 on a $41 million Kroger Marketplace in Hockley, TX, its first new Houston-area store in a decade.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wegmans<\/strong> will anchor the redeveloped Galleria of Mt. Lebanon with a 110,000-square-foot store, its second planned for the Pittsburgh area.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Cafe Rio<\/strong> named former Cava operations executive Adam Klaers COO and promoted Julie Boyster to Chief Brand Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dine Brands Global<\/strong> adopted a one-year stockholder rights plan on Oct. 28 amid reported takeover interest.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Guac Mexi Grill<\/strong> signed a 95-unit, 10-year U.S. development agreement covering Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen<\/strong> parted ways with Chief Marketing Officer Matt Rubin less than a year after his appointment.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wendy’s<\/strong> confirmed Oct. 28 it received an unsolicited $7.35-per-share, roughly $1.4 billion take-private proposal from a group including Trian and Flynn Group, though no final decisions have been reported.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Aritzia<\/strong> unveiled a five-year plan at its Oct. 27 investor day calling for 12 to 14 new boutiques a year and about 220 boutiques by fiscal 2032.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Boot Barn<\/strong> raised its fiscal 2027 store-opening target to 75 to 80 and approved a second distribution center in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Raymour & Flanigan<\/strong> plans showrooms in Danvers, MA, and Nashua, NH, its first in New Hampshire, both slated for late 2027.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Roots<\/strong> was acquired by Marquee Brands in a go-private deal that closed Oct. 26; President and CEO Meghan Roach stepped down.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The RealReal<\/strong> named former eBay executive Alexis Hoopes Chief Merchandising Officer, effective Nov. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 Cosentino’s Food Stores opened its first ChopMore! cost-plus discount store Oct. 27 in Kansas City, MO, converting a former Price Chopper. \u2022 Green Trail Fuels acquired all 25 Littlefield Express convenience stores and travel centers in Arkansas and Oklahoma. \u2022 H-E-B opened a 125,000-square-foot store on San Antonio’s far East… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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-19442","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\/19442","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=19442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19443,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442\/revisions\/19443"}],"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=19442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}