Dillons Fuel Center coming to 13th and West

dillonsWICHITA — Construction starts next week on a new Dillons Fuel Center at the Dillons at 13th and West. It will be similar to the company’s fuel center at 13th and Tyler and should be open by late summer.

“It’s all abut convenience,” says spokeswoman Sheila Lowrie.

The center will be at the southwest corner of the Dillons parking lot.

It will have five fuel pumps as well as a service kiosk that sells things like cigarettes, newspapers, lottery tickets and candy bars. There also will be vending machines.

A QuikTrip is located across the street on the southeast corner of 13th and West. But Lowrie says that’s not why Dillons selected this new location.

“Really, it’s about feedback from our customers,” she says. “It’s a convenience that our customers tell us they really enjoy.”

Lowrie says the fuel center will allow customers to easily redeem Dillons’ fuel-saver rewards while stopping off for groceries. That’s 2 cents off every gallon with a Dillons Plus Card, or 10 cents off a gallon if customers are part of the Dillons fuel-saver rewards program.

Lowrie says customers can shop, get their rewards for grocery purchases and “fill up right there at the store.”

12 Comments

  1. egge3
    Posted July 9, 2009 at 3:49 pm | Permalink

    Good news. Always good to see Dillons Expand and not another China Walmart outlet.

  2. podunkboy
    Posted July 9, 2009 at 4:24 pm | Permalink

    Yippee Skippee – I’m tired of earning those $.10/gallon discounts at one grocery store and then having to drive several miles to another store to redeem them. It was silly going to Central/West or 13th/West and then driving halfway to Maize to find a Dillons gas pump.

  3. hobo
    Posted July 9, 2009 at 5:48 pm | Permalink

    I don’t think they have room at that location; the parking lot is alway full?

  4. newspaper
    Posted July 9, 2009 at 7:48 pm | Permalink

    i like food and gas.

  5. bth
    Posted July 9, 2009 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

    I eat food, I get gas …

    ;)

  6. frankcr0072004
    Posted July 9, 2009 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

    The parking lot will be expanded to the east, toward the credit union next door.

  7. Pondunkville
    Posted July 10, 2009 at 6:51 am | Permalink

    Frank

    Nah,their parking lot is already at the property line of the Credit Union to the east.

    It will be on that southwest corner where that bank was years ago.

  8. davideugene
    Posted July 10, 2009 at 7:10 am | Permalink

    Good luck if you want cigarettes. This location has very few to offer.

  9. johnnyg66
    Posted July 10, 2009 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

    Its about time Dillons. Hope the will have E-85. Remember there used to be a kwik shop at that corner till early 90’s.

  10. bth
    Posted July 12, 2009 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    Isn’t Kwik Sho owned by Kroger/Dillons?

  11. Melvis
    Posted July 12, 2009 at 11:33 pm | Permalink

    Yes it is.

  12. slcks
    Posted July 13, 2009 at 3:42 pm | Permalink

    It’s about time! Now can we maybe get a recycling collection point at that location?