by Jack McLoone

“We should have been in Prescott years and years ago, but we couldn’t find the right place,” Scott Tiegan, Director of Real Estate and Vice President of Kwik Trip, stated in Monday evening’s Prescott Plan Commission meeting.

Tiegan informed plan commissioners that Kwik Trip is the most vertically integrated convenience store in the United States, which means they operate more of the supply chain than just selling products in their store. Kwik Trip has its own bakery, dairy plant, water bottling line, kitchens, foodsafety lab, distribution center, ice plant, LP plant, blow mold

See KWIK TRIP, Page 9 facility, transportation company and health clinic. The company makes, which employs over 28,000 people, ships and sells over 80% of its own branded products.

Some members of the Prescott community have been vocal about their want for the La Crosse-headquartered convenience store.

Kwik Trip worked out a prospective deal with St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on the corner of Henry St. If approved, they plan to build a parking lot in one year and the new store the next year.

The gas pumps will be to the west of the store and a carwash will be located behind the store. There will be two entrances on Henry St. and another on Campbell St.

A member of the planning commission asked if the location would affect current businesses in the immediate vicinity.

Tiegan stated that he has already had conversations with the owners of Churchill Market, and they believe the businesses are different enough that they can compete and coexist with one another.

“They’re such a specialty store,” he said. “It’s a great store.”

The layout was overall well-received, although a different driveway layout will possibly be discussed in the future planning commission meeting.