Arizona Daily Star

Greg Furrier, a principal with Picor Commercial Real Estate Services has worked with QuikTrip identifying potential store locations in the Tucson marketplace. "Competitors fear them," he told the newspaper. "People hear they are going into the market, and they will sometimes go in and try to compete with them with sites, or bulk up with their existing locations."

QuikTrip "will start turning ground" for stores in Tucson this summer, spokesman Mike Thornbrugh told the newspaper, without revealing any specific locations. With regard to Circle K's purported response, he told the newspaper it's healthy for the marketplace and, beyond that, not something they are monitoring closely.

"Honestly, we are just going to concentrate on what QuikTrip does," he is quoted as saying. "We are concentrating on what we can do in our marketplace. We are going to have locations that in our opinion are going to be great."