WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- This week, Kum & Go opened its newest Iowa convenience store and one of its latest to sell E15, the 15% ethanol blend.
The 5,000-square-foot store in Des Moines is Kum & Go L.C.’s 157th in Iowa and its eighth to offer E15. In April, the chain opened the first location to sell E15 in Windsor Heights, Iowa. It now has five in Iowa, two in Arkansas and one in Oklahoma.
Over the next two years, Kum & Go plans to offer E15 at more than 65 sites in those three states, as well as in Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri and South Dakota. Nationwide, only about 120 fueling locations sell E15.
The “Keo Way” Kum & Go, as the new site is known, also sells E10, E85 and diesel.
Another highlight of the new site is its “eco-friendly” features. Kum & Go has committed to designing and constructing new builds to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards and submitting them for certification. The chain has more than 100 LEED-certified sites, reportedly the most of any c-store retailer worldwide.
The store also features an on-site kitchen that prepares made-to-order pizzas, baked goods and breakfast and deli sandwiches on a daily basis. As part of its grand opening celebrations this week, the Keo Way Kum & Go offered coupons for 99-cent whole pizzas to its first 99 customers. According to Kristie Bell, director of communications at Kum & Go, customers were lined up outside the store waiting for it to open, and the pizza coupons were gone within an hour.
The fifth-largest privately held and company-operated convenience-store chain in the United States, West Des Moines, Iowa-based Kum & Go has more than 4,700 employees and more than 430 stores in 11 states: Iowa, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming.
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