• Ahold Delhaize-owned Stop & Shop said yesterday that it has named Dean Wilkinson - a more than two-decade company veteran who most recently was SVP, store strategy and execution, at Ahold USA - to run the Fresh Formats business, which operates the bfresh small store concept.
Wilkinson succeeds Scott Miller, interim SVP of operations at Fresh Formats, who is leaving the company.
Wilkinson succeeds Scott Miller, interim SVP of operations at Fresh Formats, who is leaving the company.
- KC's View:
- I don't know Dean Wilkinson, but I will say this about bfresh. The power of the concept from the beginning was that it emerged from a skunkworks that Stop & Shop allowed to operate completely independently ... and I think if bfresh is going to continue to evolve, it has to be a separate business. Otherwise, it'll get diluted by corporate-think. It is inevitable.
I hope that this is part of Wilkinson's charge - run the business, and run it independently.
