Tops promotes produce and floral specialist for east region

Tops Friendly Markets, a Williamsville, N.Y.-based full-service grocery retailer in New York, northern Pennsylvania and Vermont, has promoted Cole Bickal to produce/floral specialist in its east region.

Bickal will be responsible for the Syracuse northeast and Hudson midstate districts. He will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of operations and merchandising for the produce and floral departments within those districts.

Bickal started with Tops Markets in 2001 and over his 22-year career has held various positions including produce clerk, produce manager and, most recently, operations manager of the Elmira, N.Y. Tops.

He resides with his wife and daughters in Lansing, N.Y.

Tops invites people with a passion for food to join the 28th largest supermarket chain in the country. To learn more about opportunities at Tops, visit its online career center.