{"id":16038,"date":"2025-09-23T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16038"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:30:20","slug":"mega-saver-mega-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/mega-saver-mega-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Saver, mega recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was entirely dumb luck (stopping at a Marion Kum &amp; Go that was in the process of becoming not-a-Kum-&amp;-Go) followed by the usual &#8220;This data set\u00a0has to exist somewhere. It doesn&#8217;t? <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/20-iowa-kum-and-go-gas-stations-becoming\">Guess I have to find out myself.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That, dear reader, is how I scooped the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/money\/business\/retail\/2025\/09\/05\/maverik-sells-20-iowa-kum-go-locations-to-mega-saver\/85989542007\/\">how my work appeared in the print paper (Sept. 8<\/a>) for the first time since I left there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/20-iowa-kum-and-go-gas-stations-becoming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16039\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_megasaver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_megasaver.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_megasaver-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/substack_megasaver-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinsoncountynews.com\/articles\/dickinsoncountynews-2\/mega-savers-iowa-plans-take-shape\/?pubid=dickinsoncountynews\">Also the <em>Dickinson County News<\/em>.<\/a> Hi there! Thanks for reading!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was entirely dumb luck (stopping at a Marion Kum &amp; Go that was in the process of becoming not-a-Kum-&amp;-Go) followed by the usual &#8220;This data set\u00a0has to exist somewhere. It doesn&#8217;t? Guess I have to find out myself.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/mega-saver-mega-recognition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16040,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions\/16040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}