Quiktrip - Type 3

[heironymouspasparagus]

I have family working at Wawa in the east.  Am told it is very nice.

Remember Git-N-Go?  And the old neon signs they had.  I assembled a few of those in the 60's.  Big porcelain steel panels that you could climb up inside.  Cantankerous Old Fart named Clifford made a lot of the neon for many of them.  I also wired up some of the neon and got zapped on occasion with the 40,000 to 60,000 volt ballasts used therein.

Very cool stuff!

Wish they (QuikTrip) would get over that OKC thing or at least go to Moore/Norman.  Just can't hardly take 7/11.  Whoever their marginally legal anti-trust agreement was with, it is time to move on.

Am I engaging in topic drift??

[Hoss]

I have family working at Wawa in the east.  Am told it is very nice.

Remember Git-N-Go?  And the old neon signs they had.  I assembled a few of those in the 60's.  Big porcelain steel panels that you could climb up inside.  Cantankerous Old Fart named Clifford made a lot of the neon for many of them.  I also wired up some of the neon and got zapped on occasion with the 40,000 to 60,000 volt ballasts used therein.

Very cool stuff!

Wish they (QuikTrip) would get over that OKC thing or at least go to Moore/Norman.  Just can't hardly take 7/11.  Whoever their marginally legal anti-trust agreement was with, it is time to move on.

Am I engaging in topic drift??

You've not been reading.

No 'marginally legal anti-trust' stuff going on here.  It's a gentleman's agreement to not invade each other's local markets.  Simple as that.  Has been around for years, likely will be around for more.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Those kind of gentlemen's agreements would seem to be custom made for anti-trust and anti-competitive considerations.

I suspect it will continue, and I don't begrudge either party their agreement.  Just wish it would go away so can get a QT in OKC area - Moore/Norman when am there.  (I had always heard it was between Love's and Cadieux... maybe he made two?)

Have met Chester and his wife and they are good people.  And the company is great to work for from people I have talked to who work there.

[Conan71]

Heir- On Cue has a store at SE 15th & Air Depot in MWC and they are opening two more near simultaneously on prime plots at SE 29th & Sooner and 29th & Douglas- basically off the north corners of Tinker.

My GF has posited that perhaps the On Cue concept is QT stepping around the agreement. I don't know I'd carry it that far but whomever it is, has studied QT very well. Store and gas island layouts are very similar, brick colors are even close- and then the whole "Cue" thing. Whomever it is has a huge chunk of cash. The locations are primo and the build-out is first rate.   

[TheTed]

I have family working at Wawa in the east.  Am told it is very nice.

I've heard good things about WaWa, too. But Sheetz is apparently the gold standard, from what I've heard.

QT is just starting to dabble in some made to order drinks. Sheetz has an insane amount of made to order food.

http://www.dictailgate.com/wordpress/2010/02/03/sheetz-vs-wawa-round-3/

[BKDotCom]

Visited the new QT yesterday..   
Seems the pump payment options are more limited than the standard QT.   It only had "Prepay inside" or swipe outside...
Or, am I just slow to notice the change everywhere  (I always pay at the pump).

[Hoss]

Visited the new QT yesterday..   
Seems the pump payment options are more limited than the standard QT.   It only had "Prepay inside" or swipe outside...
Or, am I just slow to notice the change everywhere  (I always pay at the pump).

QT Prepay inside has been the standard at all QT stores for some time now.  Stems from a rash of drive-offs they had a few years ago.

[Townsend]

QT Prepay inside has been the standard at all QT stores for some time now.  Stems from a rash of drive-offs they had a few years ago.for years and years.

I worked for QT 20 years ago and we had drive offs all the time.

They sent a memo telling us to not run out after them to see the tag after one of our assistant managers was shot at in the old 244 location.

[Hoss]

I worked for QT 20 years ago and we had drive offs all the time.

They sent a memo telling us to not run out after them to see the tag after one of our assistant managers was shot at in the old 244 location.

Of course you have, but they got increasingly worse a few years ago, hence the policy change.

Old 244 location?  Are you talking about the one just north of 244 on Mingo that was just south of the old QT corporate office?

[DolfanBob]

QT Prepay inside has been the standard at all QT stores for some time now.  Stems from a rash of drive-offs they had a few years ago.

Anyone still use the QT pump start card ? I still use mine all the time.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Conan,
I checked their web site and they are Simple Simon's group.
Thanks!  Will have to check it out next time I get close.

[custosnox]

Anyone still use the QT pump start card ? I still use mine all the time.

Mine died, and you have to jump through a few hoops to get a new one, so I just said to heck with it and either pay at the pump or prepay.  Too bad, since it made it easier to fill up with cash.

[dbacks fan]

Speaking of QuikTrip's I was trying to find where a friend of mine lived in 1994 that was off of 81st and Yorktown. Was there a QuikTrip or was it a Git-N-Go that was on the southwest corner of 81st and Yorktown across from the WalMart?

[YoungTulsan]

Speaking of QuikTrip's I was trying to find where a friend of mine lived in 1994 that was off of 81st and Yorktown. Was there a QuikTrip or was it a Git-N-Go that was on the southwest corner of 81st and Yorktown across from the WalMart?

That was a QT and it was there until a few years ago.  I'm pretty sure the new location at 96th & Delaware being built is when they shut that one down.  Although that is a pretty far distance for QT standards.  81st & Lewis is kind of a QuikTrip dry spot, but I suppose they know their own demands better than I.

[bacjz00]

"...but I suppose they know their own demands better than I."

I don't think anyone really knows what QT is thinking.  I can't figure out why they or any other gasoline retailer won't open a store along 75 corridor into downtown.  It continues to be the most underserved stretch of highway in the city limits.  10+ miles with no convenient access to fuel.  Geebus, someone loan me the money and I'll go do it myself and pay you back the entire amount in what....a month? maybe two?   I still can't get that 50,000 average daily traffic count out of my head.