Did you know that about 80% of the products sold at Kwik Trip are produced at their headquarters in La Crosse, Wisconsin?

At their La Crosse facility, Kwik Trip makes a variety of items like baked goods, sandwiches, pizza, ice cream, and milk, which are delivered fresh to each store daily. This facility also has banana ripening rooms that hold over 41,000 pounds of bananas!

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Kwik Trip Breaks Ground on Second Distribution Center

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Kwik Trip has over 900 locations and is still growing with the majority of its stores in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.

This commitment to quality helped them earn the title of the top convenience store chain in America. USA Today readers voted Kwik Trip the best in the gas station category in their annual reader's choice awards.

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Kwik Trip has announced stores in South Dakota which made me think they'd target western Minnesota for a second production facility, but that's not the case.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Kwik Trip purchased 151 acres of empty farmland in DeForest for $14.1 million in March. Construction on the new 280,000-square-foot center, which will serve 350 stores and reduce distribution costs for southern locations, started on Wednesday, as reported by WEAU News.

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