QuickChek
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QuickChek is a chain of
The size of the stores range from smaller corner-type shops to larger convenience stores. Many stores are located in urban areas and most are open 24 hours a day. Former Stores with pharmacies tended to offer a pharmacy-like selection of health products and aids. Stores have PNC Bank ATMs inside.
Initially, QuickChek stores were mini-supermarkets with mostly grocery items, snack foods, delis, candy, milk, bread, soda, medicated products, some prepackaged meats, and a small produce area. During the 1990s the stores began to offer fuel as well and gradually changed focus on snack foods, drinks, ready to eat foods, and gas stations. Still, QuickChek stores typically offer moderate amounts of basic groceries such as
QuickChek also has its own assortment of baked goods. Some of the baked goods are baked fresh in the store.
QuickChek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning
QuickChek hosts an annual
References in pop culture
The New Jersey-based band, The Bouncing Souls, has a song written about a girl who worked in a QuickChek.
Another New Jersey-based band named The Number Twelve Looks Like You mentions QuickChek coffee in their song "The Garden's All Nighters" from the album Worse Than Alone with the line of lyrics; "Quick Chek coffee is cooling down."
Branchburg QuickChek incident
On January 26, 2010, a clerk at the QuickChek at 1296 Easton Turnpike in
Acquisition by Murphy USA
Murphy USA, based in El Dorado, Arkansas, announced their purchase of QuickChek on December 14, 2020. The transaction was closed in January 2021.[4][5] Blake Segal, former SVP of Operations at Caesars Entertainment, was named Head of QuickChek in September 2021.
References
- ^ Mulvihill, Geoff, "Va. man arrested with arsenal, map of NY Army base", The Seattle Times Archived December 18, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, January 26, 2010, accessed March 3, 2014
- ^ a b Garlic, Tiffani N. (March 9, 2010). "Three police officers are honored for quick response to Virginia man with arsenal in Branchburg motel room". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ^ "Man with weapons, map of military base arrested", CNN, January 26, 2010, accessed January 26, 2010
- ^ "Murphy USA Announces Agreement to Acquire QuickChek—One of". 14 December 2020.
- ^ "Murphy USA Completes Acquisition of QuickChek".