I know it seems preposterous to have reviews for convenience stores, but let me tell you a little something about me: I have opinions about pretty much everything. And if you have seen my opinion of the Cobblestone market across the street from my house, you will know that there are plenty of ways to screw up a corner store.
Enter quik trip, which forgoes every one of these ways with aplomb. Where Cobblestone has gas pumps that are perpetually unwell in ways too numerous to recount, QT has gas pumps aplenty, and they all--get this--pump gas.
But the real charm of quik trip is how they purport to be a common man's convenience store but in reality have completely adept staff ringing people up like there's no tomorrow! It's unreal. Unlike the aforementioned dump across the street, in which you can expect to find a line even at 9:00 at night, at QT even in peak times the cashiers are ringing people up two at a time, one on either side of the register. It's beautiful. It's beautiful because there's--and I mean this--no job that is too menial to do well. If you work at a convenience store, damn it, have some pride in your work. I would. And just because of these people, I would gladly work at QT. (Hell, in this market, I'll take any old job. But you get the point.)
Bravo, QT. And also you get a big fat wet kiss from me for being the first store to carry Xenergy drinks (Blu Pom Represent!!) in all of your locations. Woot!