Reporting by Alice Mannette, St. Cloud Times
Kwik Trip just opened its 930th store, and it’s in Little Falls.
The grand opening was on Oct. 22. Sauk Centre’s Kwik Trip will open on Dec. 3, with Victoria following suit just before the new year on Dec. 28. Elk River’s newest location opened on Oct. 8.
These stores are roughly 9,200-square-feet — similar to most other Kwik Trips, complete with food and fuel.
Other greater Minnesota stores remain on the docket for this year:
- Eagan, expected to open in November
- Ham Lake, expected to open in November
- Sauk Centre, expected to open in December
- Cottage Grove, expected to open in December
- Victoria, expected to open in December
Kwik Trip is a vertically-integrated company
Kwik Trip, Inc., a family-owned convenience store, started in 1965 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. More than 38,000 employees work at over 900 stores across the Midwest.
As a vertically-integrated company, it operates its own bakery, dairy, kitchens, food-safety lab, distribution center, LP plant, blow mold facility, transportation company and health clinic. About 80% of the products in its stores are made, shipped, and sold by Kwik Trip, the company website stated.
Some of the products include Pothole Pizza, Glazers Donuts and Karuba.
It wasn’t until 2003, that Glazer Donuts was first introduced. By 2013, the convenience store celebrated 400 locations. Three years later, it grew to 500. Fresh fried chicken came along in 2019, and one year later, take home meals were introduced.
There are more than 2,400 members that belong to a Minnesota Facebook fan page, Minnesota Kwik Trip Enthusiast Club, which is not run by the company.
This article originally appeared on St. Cloud Times.
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