Holiday gas stations are converting to Circle K in Anchorage

Circle K located connected Tudor and Old Seward Highway successful Anchorage connected Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)

Holiday state stations successful Alaska are being converted to Circle K. The alteration comes 7 years aft Circle K’s Canada-based genitor company, Alimentation Couche-Tard, bought Holiday.

Circle K’s head of communications, Chris Barnes, said successful an email that nan institution has been converting stores passim nan state during nan past 2 years. 

He said nan institution is taking a marketplace by marketplace approach. Alaska started seeing these changes earlier this year, but he said he was “unsure of wherever we are successful nan timeline.”

There are 25 Holiday and Circle K locations successful Alaska, 17 successful Anchorage, 4 successful Fairbanks, 2 successful Wasilla, and 2 connected nan Kenai Peninsula. All 4 Fairbanks locations had transitioned to their caller marque by mid-May, but a fistful of Anchorage stores haven’t been made-over.

Couche-Tard primitively said it planned to support nan Holiday sanction citing its nickname and reputation. But wherever they’ve converted, Barnes said consumers tin still bask nan aforesaid products and services offered astatine Holiday. 

Barnes said Circle K décor and uniforms person been successful section stores for respective years.

The institution told nan Anchorage Daily News successful February that they expected nan conversion to beryllium complete successful nan coming months, pinch upwind being a factor.