Six months ago, Kwik Trip began adding two self-checkout stations to all its new stores—a move it will continue from now on.
“We are adding them for convenience for our guests,” Kwik Trip’s Ben Leibl, public relations specialist, told CSP. “We aren’t replacing any jobs, and we are still adding the same number of jobs to the stores that have self-checkouts.”
Leibl added that La Crosse, Wisconsin-based Kwik Trip will not add self-checkout stations to existing locations.
There currently are about 30 Kwik Trips being built that are expected to open by the end of next year.
- Kwik Trip is No. 11 on CSP’s 2023 Top 202 ranking of convenience store chains by store count.
This news comes as the c-store chain’s CEO, Scott Zietlow, said in November that it plans on double-digit growth in stores in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
“Our thoughts are to have 16 to 20 locations within that area, and you have to have enough stores to start out with to make sense from a business perspective and a delivery perspective,” Zietlow said during an opening in Kingsford, Michigan, reported WLUC-TV6.
Kwik Trip, which according to its store locator has about six Upper Peninsula locations, opened a new Upper Peninsula store in October, in Iron Mountain, followed by the Kingsford location.
The company also is planning to enter North Dakota.
La Crosse, Wisconsin-based Kwik Trip opened its first store in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1965. It has about 800 locations under the Kwik Trip and Kwik Star flags. One of the biggest independently held c-store chains in the country, it produces more than 80% of the products sold in its stores, which are supplied by its own bakery, commissary, dairy and distribution center.