TULSA, Okla. -- QuikTrip Corp. is looking to sell its five Springfield, Mo., convenience stores, company spokesperson Mike Thornbrugh told The Springfield News-Leader. He said QuikTrip is focusing its efforts on very large metropolitan markets, and Springfield no longer fits the company's plans.
"The stores ultimately will be sold," Thornbrugh told the newspaper. "But there is no timetable or timeframe for that."
Thornbrugh said the five stores will be sold together, and that all employees would be encouraged to seek transfers within the company. The five [image-nocss] QuikTrips in Springfield employ about 50 full- and part-time employees, said the report.
Tulsa, Okla.-based QuikTrip opened its first convenience store in Springfield in 1994, the News-Leader added.
After the sale of the Springfield locations, QuikTrip will maintain large presences in the Show Me State concentrated in the Kansas City and St. Louis markets.
Kum & Go LC has been expanding its market presence in Springfield over the last year, following its acquisition of 37 Cody's Convenience Stores in early 2009, the West Des Moines, Iowa-based retailer said recently. It now has a total of 41 stores in the Springfield market. Ankeny, Iowa-based Casey's has a smaller presence there, with six stores. Rapid Robert's Inc., based in Springfield, has six of its 24 locations there.
QuikTrip has more than 550 stores in nine states (Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Georgia, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Texas and Arizona). It employs approximately 11,000 people.
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