QuikTrip recently closed one Des Moines store and is selling four more stores in the area. The chain has 24 stores in the market, the report said.
“The one store we are closing because we built a brand-new Generation 3 store about a half-mile away, so obviously that affects the existing store dramatically,” Mike Thornbrugh, spokesperson for Tulsa, Okla.-based QuikTrip, told CSP Daily News.
The chain is selling stores in Clive, Urbandale, Johnston and Windsor Heights, Iowa, the Register said.
“It's not unusual for QuikTrip. We constantly go through and evaluate stores throughout the company and make decisions on do we want to keep them open, relocate them or do a scrape and build,” Thornbrugh said. “For those stores, we just made decisions that they no longer fit our long-term portfolio.”