Then, the old store will be scraped away to make room for a larger parking lot and more gasoline pumps, said the report.[image-nocss]
The company has purchased a former auto repair shop north of the current store, QuikTrip officials said, and the city of Wichita is considering a zoning application to vacate an alley just north of the store.
A start date is not clear, Thornbrugh said, but the company hopes to open the new store next summer.
QuikTrip is moving toward larger stores, Thornbrugh said, to handle a new emphasis on fresh-made sandwiches and pastries as part of its move into the fast-food industry.
The growing emphasis on food, such as sandwiches, taquitos and pastries is a method for the company to grow same-store business while facing uncertainty in the gasoline industry from new technologies that could someday decrease demand for the fuel, according to an earlier report by The Tulsa World.
(Click here for previous CSP Daily News coverage of QuikTrip's new larger-store format and prototype.)
QuikTrip, founded in 1958 in a Tulsa, Okla., strip mall, has nearly 530 stores nationwide, according to the report, including almost 40 in Wichita. It is renovating Wichita locations and is expanding in markets such as Dallas, Phoenix and Tucson.
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