Kwik Trip is now operating in North Dakota under its Kwik Star banner.
The convenience store, which will operate 24 hours per day, opened at 2530 12th Ave. S, Fargo, on Thursday morning, Ben Leibl, spokesperson for La Crosse, Wisconsin-based Kwik Trip, told CSP.
A second North Dakota Kwik Star will open in Fargo at 5 a.m. on Dec. 11 at 4480 Calico Dr. S, Leibl said. This store will have a car wash.
- Kwik Trip is No. 11 on CSP’s 2025 Top 202 ranking of U.S. c-store chains by store count.
“Both stores are third-generation, which means they have a modern look to them, and they have roughly 9,200 square feet,” Leibl said.
Fargo has more than 133,000 people and is the largest city in North Dakota. The first South Dakota store opened Sept. 21, 2023, in Brandon.
Kwik Trip in early November opened its second distribution center, in DeForest, Wisconsin, about 10 miles north of the state capitol in Madison.
The 280,000-square-foot facility sits on a 150-acre parcel of land Kwik Trip bought in 2024, the company said.
Kwik Trip broke ground on the new center on July 10, 2024. The center services 350 Kwik Trip stores and includes freezer, cooler and dry good space as well as four conditioning rooms for banana ripening, CSP previously reported.
The new location reduces the cost of distribution for stores in the southern part of Kwik Trip’s geographic footprint, the company said. Kwik Trip produces more than 80% of the products sold in its stores, supplied by its own bakery, commissary, dairy and its other distribution center in La Crosse, which until now was the sole distribution center for all stores.
Kwik Trip operates in Wisconsin, Minnesota and northern Michigan under the Kwik Trip name, and in Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and North Dakota under the Kwik Star banner. Kwik Trip was recently named the best gas station brand in the United States for the fifth year in a row, according to the 2024 USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. The family-owned company has about 850 locations and is one of the biggest independently held c-store chains in the country.
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