I hate Kwik Trip

[Duner Wi]

Are you talking about Yum China?

YUMC is china spin off of YUM. YUM was once part of Pepsi/PEP.

 

[kencombs]

Yep. Sears saw the future and it was financial services. Catalog sales and mail order were dead. I'm guessing they used a Kenmore crystal ball.

But the first thing they divested was the credit arm which became the Discover card, if my memory is right. Never could figure out that reasoning.

Then the company was gutted for it's real estate holdings. Worth more in pieces than as a going concern.

 

[Scott 730]

Kwik Trip chicken tenders can't be beat for a fast meal. Large pieces of breast meat and free sauce of your choice. The rotisserie chicken is pretty good too.

 

[Dieseltech]

Kwik Trip chicken tenders can't be beat for a fast meal. Large pieces of breast meat and free sauce of your choice. The rotisserie chicken is pretty good too.

Not for me, I WILL NOT eat Yardbird......

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Does anyone else hate Kwik Trips destroying good conventional gas stations with resturants? They're like aliens and the food is sh*t and I hate the atmosphere and music. They keep going up everywhere buying up and taking away the good gas stations that have edible food.

Feel better now? gm

 

[Scott 730]

Does anyone else hate Kwik Trips ...... the food is sh*t and I hate the atmosphere and music.

What is this "atmosphere and music" you speak of???

 

[Alvin 41]

Does anyone else hate Kwik Trips destroying good conventional gas stations with resturants? They're like aliens and the food is sh*t and I hate the atmosphere and music. They keep going up everywhere buying up and taking away the good gas stations that have edible food.

Kwik Trip just completed a distribution center in Deforest WI on 135 acres ,and not for fuel. claim they have
room to store 8 semi loads of banannas with elhylene gas for fast even ripening .Their new stations are large and well organized for food sales. Typically ,they have 4 counter clerks checking out food sales.

 

[Old560]

Does anyone else hate Kwik Trips destroying good conventional gas stations with resturants? They're like aliens and the food is sh*t and I hate the atmosphere and music. They keep going up everywhere buying up and taking away the good gas stations that have edible food.

No gas station has edible food. It’s a gas station not a restaurant.

 

[MarkB_MI]

What is this "atmosphere and music" you speak of???

I think he means he misses the smell of rancid grease and the sound of a TV tuned to Fox. Both of which you'll find at his favorite restaurants.

 

[Brhatweed]

Problem I have with KT is they're popping up like weeds all over the place and killing off the locals. I'm in Mora MN right across from the KT on Hwy 65 and the traffic in and out of there is nothing short of madness on the weekends. The local Marathon station closed up completely and the Holiday across the way does a fraction of what they used to do, same with the Cenex and Co-op stations. Granted KT has something that resembles food under the lights and the cashiers are very fast to help, gas itself is sometimes a nickel cheaper than the others but try to get into that lot with all the RV's boats and overpriced toys on the trailers behind the big diesel brutes blocking the pumps. How about that car wash blower screaming at 3AM? Each time they have a flyer full of specials they're all out of those items by noon.
While I applaud capitalism I don't care for the cut throat competition or disrespect of the town, if I want good food I eat at the Sportsman Cafe or Freddies when I'm too lazy to light the grill. At least they don't keep the town awake at night.

 

[ss55]

Problem I have with KT is they're popping up like weeds all over the place and killing off the locals. I'm in Mora MN right across from the KT on Hwy 65 and the traffic in and out of there is nothing short of madness on the weekends. The local Marathon station closed up completely and the Holiday across the way does a fraction of what they used to do, same with the Cenex and Co-op stations. Granted KT has something that resembles food under the lights and the cashiers are very fast to help, gas itself is sometimes a nickel cheaper than the others but try to get into that lot with all the RV's boats and overpriced toys on the trailers behind the big diesel brutes blocking the pumps. How about that car wash blower screaming at 3AM? Each time they have a flyer full of specials they're all out of those items by noon.
While I applaud capitalism I don't care for the cut throat competition or disrespect of the town, if I want good food I eat at the Sportsman Cafe or Freddies when I'm too lazy to light the grill. At least they don't keep the town awake at night.

Sounds like your local KT captured most of the traveler business and maybe a large portion of the local business too.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

Problem I have with KT is they're popping up like weeds all over the place and killing off the locals. I'm in Mora MN right across from the KT on Hwy 65 and the traffic in and out of there is nothing short of madness on the weekends. The local Marathon station closed up completely and the Holiday across the way does a fraction of what they used to do, same with the Cenex and Co-op stations. Granted KT has something that resembles food under the lights and the cashiers are very fast to help, gas itself is sometimes a nickel cheaper than the others but try to get into that lot with all the RV's boats and overpriced toys on the trailers behind the big diesel brutes blocking the pumps. How about that car wash blower screaming at 3AM? Each time they have a flyer full of specials they're all out of those items by noon.
While I applaud capitalism I don't care for the cut throat competition or disrespect of the town, if I want good food I eat at the Sportsman Cafe or Freddies when I'm too lazy to light the grill. At least they don't keep the town awake at night.

All your town has to do to avert "killing off the locals" is to stop selling them the land / facility to do this.

The most common example is farmers crying about urban encroachment. Well, they can't encroach if they don't own the land, and many offspring don't want to farm into the next generation so they sell the property. Or, families get into a jam and are forced to sell.

Then there's the Walmart haters going on about killing the mom-n-pop shops...which couldn't have occurred without a land purchase from a private individual... There was a time not too long ago around Ohio where there was a campaign for Union grocery workers. That's just what we need, higher food prices with no benefit to the store or the consumer.

It's no great sin to go into business and kill off someone else's .... especially if their prices are too high or the service is bad.

This is capitalism.... your town / leaders are allowing this to happen. You're gonna have to move.

 

[Brown David]

Problem I have with KT is they're popping up like weeds all over the place and killing off the locals. I'm in Mora MN right across from the KT on Hwy 65 and the traffic in and out of there is nothing short of madness on the weekends. The local Marathon station closed up completely and the Holiday across the way does a fraction of what they used to do, same with the Cenex and Co-op stations. Granted KT has something that resembles food under the lights and the cashiers are very fast to help, gas itself is sometimes a nickel cheaper than the others but try to get into that lot with all the RV's boats and overpriced toys on the trailers behind the big diesel brutes blocking the pumps. How about that car wash blower screaming at 3AM? Each time they have a flyer full of specials they're all out of those items by noon.
While I applaud capitalism I don't care for the cut throat competition or disrespect of the town, if I want good food I eat at the Sportsman Cafe or Freddies when I'm too lazy to light the grill. At least they don't keep the town awake at night.

Don't blame them, blame those who partake of their services.

 

[Scott 730]

Problem I have with KT is they're popping up like weeds all over the place and killing off the locals. I'm in Mora MN right across from the KT on Hwy 65 and the traffic in and out of there is nothing short of madness on the weekends. The local Marathon station closed up completely and the Holiday across the way does a fraction of what they used to do, same with the Cenex and Co-op stations. Granted KT has something that resembles food under the lights and the cashiers are very fast to help, gas itself is sometimes a nickel cheaper than the others but try to get into that lot with all the RV's boats and overpriced toys on the trailers behind the big diesel brutes blocking the pumps. How about that car wash blower screaming at 3AM? Each time they have a flyer full of specials they're all out of those items by noon.
While I applaud capitalism I don't care for the cut throat competition or disrespect of the town, if I want good food I eat at the Sportsman Cafe or Freddies when I'm too lazy to light the grill. At least they don't keep the town awake at night.

I have 1 simple question. Do you buy everything you need from a local mom and pop store? Do you ever shop at Walmart, Coborn's, Amazon, etc?? They have also made main street businesses disappear.

 

[moresmoke]

No gas station has edible food. It’s a gas station not a restaurant.

Many restaurants these days don’t have edible food either…

 

[Brhatweed]

Do you buy everything you need from a local mom and pop store?

They're all but gone from around here. We have a Coborn's in town, Walmart in Pine City and Cambridge and I don't do anything with Amazon. One of our two "hometown" hardware stores burned last summer so it's the ACE on Union, good people who hire the kids in town. I guess the what's really upsetting to me is just as Scott pointed out the outsiders have basically killed off the mom & pop stores. Years ago it was Rohkey's hardware (not sure about the spelling) on Union that had everything in that small building but that's long gone now. Our implement dealer closed up last summer and it's turning into a Best Rentals which used to be at the hardware store.
I'm small town having grown up just south of Isanti and before the yuppie invasion we had everything in town at locally owned stores. Main street was a gravel road and my sophomore year the population was under 900. Gas was at either the 76 station or the implement place across from the Creamery. Groceries came from Reichals but some bad business moves put them under and today it's a Kwik Trip. So I moved north to Podunk USA and rent the back of a former funeral home and clear the parking lot with a 8N pulling a grader blade. Guess I'm old and set in my ways but as long as the Sportsman Cafe is serving up the home cookin' I'm there when I can. Might cost more than the Kwik Trip but the breakfasts are excellent and coffee is done just right... need my starting fluid to get myself going in the morning.

Our main street (Union St.) has been on life support for decades ever since the state re-routed Hwy-65 to the east, not exactly sure of the year but it was just before my time. Now most everything is along 65. McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Coborn's and the three gas stations being Holiday, Kwik Trip and the stand-alone pumps at Coborn's. Blaze Credit Union is building a new brance office on the old Pamida lot to replace the one in town.

Okay so maybe Kwik Trip isn't the reason our towns are dying but they seem to outnumber most everything else just like Dollar General, we have two of them here.

 

[Scott 730]

Gas was at either the 76 station or the implement place across from the Creamery.

Implement place? You must mean Miller's Mobil station which became Steve's Tire.

 

[Brhatweed]

Implement place? You must mean Miller's Mobil station which became Steve's Tire.

It's been a while for me but I'm thinking of what is now that private Chrysler museum. They had two pumps out front with the manual reset knobs on the side. Isanti Implement I want to say, had a Wheel Horse sign on the east side. Been almost 40 years now for me. I spent several years over at Countryside Auto Isanti Engineering when Gary had the place and Don Anderson had that garage on the back side.

 

[Scott 730]

It's been a while for me but I'm thinking of what is now that private Chrysler museum. They had two pumps out front with the manual reset knobs on the side. Isanti Implement I want to say, had a Wheel Horse sign on the east side. Been almost 40 years now for me. I spent several years over at Countryside Auto Isanti Engineering when Gary had the place and Don Anderson had that garage on the back side.

Isanti Independent Oil. Owned by OJ Miller. His father before him, and his son Jack after him. GMC Truck dealer. Later added Wheel Horse mowers. Bulk Mobil fuel distributor.

 

[Brhatweed]

Didn't remember it being Mobil, I was a teen in those days when the Burger Top was still around... not always edible but we didn't have a Kwik Trip.