My first and last experience with one of these places was many years ago. I didn’t know it was anything special, just assumed it was yet another random truck stop gas station deal and I needed to stop for gas while on a long trip.
BIG MISTAKE
The customers themselves driving through the massive parking lot, it was like Mad Fucking Max, and that was enough to let me know that I needed to move on to some place else and never go back. It was literal non-stop absolutely bat shit insane drivers, running stop signs, laying hands on their horns and just letting it blare for a minute+ because a pedestrian dared cross through a crosswalk. People driving every which way down the lanes as though it was all one way or something. Squealing tires because people are going several times faster than the posted speed limit and then have to suddenly slam on brakes … IN A FUCKING PARKING LOT.
NEVER AGAIN
I suppose learning this bullshit philosophy of the owners / management it all sort of comes together and makes sense. The worst kind of people as customers, the worst kind of people running it.
Buccees sucks. I hate going into them. There are 10000 gas pumps that are always occupied and trying to get around the parking lot is a hazard. Inside is even worse with 1,000,000 lumen fluorescent lights and being packed full of gawking people.
“Business-friendly” doesn’t really sound like them at all after seeing that John Oliver episode on them attacking tons of other businesses over logos.
As much as I did want to visit one someday just to try a few things I dont think I will he going out of my way if the chance does arise. Also announcing your political allignment should be a death sentance for any company… nobody wants to know this info.
Business friendly just means lower corporate income tax I’m pretty sure.
I’d say it just means socially worse for those folks, because a bad social net clearly corresponds 1:1 with corporate friendliness.
Lower taxes, less regulation, less enforcement, maybe some union busting and general worker suppression.
Super shitty education system so you have a large pool of cheap labor
I hear they pay pretty good. I don’t think they have a union problem.
What’s “a union problem”?
I read “union problem” as “a problem that can be fixed with a union” such as low pay. But yeah, just because your company isn’t currently choosing to exploit its workers doesn’t mean they won’t choose to later - the trick is to prevent them from having the choice in the first place.
A union doesn’t have to be an antagonistic force, exclusively beating exploitative companies into submission - it can just be the voice of the workers to speak on equal terms with an attentive employer, working together to grow the business for the benefit of everyone, instead of just those in the executive suite.
It’s a menu to choose from. Not a list where everything has to be true it to apply.
But how brain washed do you have to be to cal unions a problem. Unless you own the business. In which case you only have yourself to blame for making the workers angry enough to organize.
You are reading way too much much into that. My parents were both in unions and I’m pro union. Relax.
Edit: also I don’t really even like Buc-ee’s. I went once, it was a gas station… I never went again lol.
I just hear they pay well from people I’ve known who worked there.
Or having the government pay for improvements that the business owners would normally have to do.
Indeed, the location in DeForest, Wisconsin is “on hold” because the village can’t afford the $17 million highway interchange for it. (No chance of the company helping fund it, nosiree, that’s communism or something.)
"Business friendly“ means friendly to “my” business. It always has. One company’s business friendly is another person’s business hostile.
And fewer worker’s rights.
currently they are suing a small chain, that has the beaver as a logo.
the ceo thinks blue areas need the stupid gas station chain in thier state, good riddance if they leave.
Also announcing your political allignment should be a death sentance for any company… nobody wants to know this info.
There’s an app called Goods Unite Us which tells you what political parties different companies donate to, and it’s searchable.
In case you do want to know that info.
You’re not missing out. It’s a touristy gift shop for a mascot with convenience store amenities and some mid food. I really don’t understand why people love it so much
We’re talking about people who have never done something interesting in their entire lives. They never make anything, so spending money is their only source of fulfillment.
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It’s my fault for thinking that buc-ees pay and benefits and seemingly positive attitude towards employment meant they werent shit fucks.
The owner is a pretty big Greg Abbott supporter and has been for many years
They only operate in states with like zero employee protection laws
actual cultural attactions and don’t need to pretend their gas stations are one
Bro has never been to a Wawa. Or a Sheetz.
Okay. We have cultural attractions aside from our gas stations. Better?
Oklahoman here - small town youth literally go Walmart for date nights. So grocery stores, too.
That’s sad. They deserve better
They deserve better
Eh… I’ll wait and see who they voted for before I decide if they deserve better than date night at walmart.
I k.Oklahoma is a bad environment but young people aren’t allowed to vote and aren’t allowed to leave until they’re adults. No one should be stuck in a place that sucks that hard for that long
Yeah I was gonna say, people in NJ take Wawa seriously, even if it’s not as good as it used to be
Hey now Wawa Canada has a giant goose. 😃
After the novelty wears off, I don’t understand the appeal of Buc-ee’s. It’s a shitty convenience store, because it’s not quick or convenient, and everything it has that other convenience stores don’t is either shitty, overpriced, or both. You want food? Food is higher quality elsewhere, and about as convenient. Clothes? Higher quality and cheaper elsewhere, and about as convenient. The only reason to go there is if you want Buc-ee’s branded souvenirs. The bathrooms are nice, I guess, but a decent convenience store like Casey’s or QuikTrip has bathrooms just as nice and you’ll be in and out much quicker.
Their bathrooms are nice, their food is good by rest stop standards, and their gas is on the cheaper side. It’s a solid choice to stop at when you’re on the road if you’re unsure about nearby options. That’s it. I don’t get the white suburbanite consumerist cult integrating a gas station into their personality. It’s like funko pop people but somehow worse
maybe appeals to truckers, because they often lean conservative, and bucc-ees predominately is in the south more?
They’re explicitly anti tractor trailer. They have signs plastered all over the entrance. They’ll accept anything else though. I’ve even seen a few campers at one.
It’s a good place to stop for decent gas, selections of road trip food you want and especially ample clean bathrooms. Looking slightly behind that, it’s worse than a Walmart on the inside with grounds of people shoving through each other for meh-quality fresh food.
I think another part of the equation is that by the time the novelty wears off, the local competition will likely be wiped out or be less formidable at very least.
Their gas is super cheap compared to everyone else in my area. Like - I paid 2.99 a gallon there yesterday and another place nearby was like 3.79.
I actually don’t fully understand why their gas is so cheap. I would think it was to get people in the store, but Bucees doesn’t generally have the gas prices posted on signs like everyone else.
In Florida they post the price. I think it’s the law there because of the shady gas stations near airports over charging
Wawa put in a gas station near Orlando international airport because their CEO was visiting and got pissed off by the price gouging gas stations nearby, last time I was there the Wawa was still charging reasonable prices and at least one of the other gas stations was still way overpriced (although that might be the gas station in Orlando that doesn’t want to be a gas station, they just want to be a convenience store but zoning forces them to keep gas pumps so they price the gas at obscene rates to try to keep people from buying it).
I’m thinking of the gas station near Outback stake house near the airport. They are crazy with thier prices.
Okay, I just looked it up, that one is just price gouging the tourists with rental cars. The one that doesn’t want to sell gas, at least according to local rumors, is the one on Vineland, I definitely recall it from going to the outlet mall but I don’t completely remember where on Vineland it is.
Never been to a buckeys. Don’t see a reason to ever visit one. Good marketing campaign.
Ooooh, now that Last Week Tonight episode makes so much sense
sigh no brisket for me. keep your jerky too.
I guess bucees doesn’t want my money then.
I’ve seriously never understood this hype; as far as cool gas stations with shopping amenities go, I’ve seen great ones in Europe, and I doubt Buccees has anything to add in that realm.
Look, “amenities” for us is bathroom doors that don’t allow someone to watch you poop (for free). We don’t even hope for clean. Perhaps an interesting filth that we can record and show our friends.
At least in my experience, it’s just a novelty, like a mall with a roller coaster inside. I have a Bucc-ees full body swimsuit because my wife looked at them and physically recoiled because of how tacky they are (I went back alone to get one and surprised her when we went swimming). They have branded 1/4 lb “chocolate” disks with the horrible skin-beaver imprinted on them. They sell “beaver nuggets” that are something like Corn Pops and Cheetos had a baby, but drier. They have a jerky counter (somehow more expensive than regular jerky, never tried it), a fudge counter (lots of flavors, pretty sure I tried it, but it left no impression), and grab and go barbecue sandwiches (the brisket’s more fat than meat, but the rest are decent). I have no complaints about the hot (temperature) candied nuts. I actually don’t think I can get those anywhere else nearby. Then there’s a kitschy home goods section and a clothing department that sells things with the skin-beaver printed on them. That’s about it.
It’s a bit like Disney opened a gas station, but worse (They should. Some people would kill for access to Dole Whip). It was absolutely packed at first, but not now, as far as I can tell. I think the rarity is the selling point, and people will stop caring as they expand.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks that beaver looks creepy af
Lol, these companies are so lost.
More small businesses is great!
Bucees is actually suing a bunch of small businesses for using any logo with a beaver right now. It’s super fucked up. Fuck them.
More then just a beaver. Any animal they think looks similar.
Because we all know moose look so much like beavers…
Any logo with a cartoon animal
They ain’t a small business.
No one called Bucces a small business.
Bucees is actually suing a bunch of small businesses for using any logo with a
beavercartoon right now.Doesn’t the Hoover Dam use a beaver in some of its older stuff? Legit would love to see how badly they’d get dragged through the mud because the Hoover Dam gift shop has some of those retro style reprints sitting around.
Also fun fact the Colorado does in fact have a beaver population.
Canada been real quiet since those suit done
republicans and culture dont mix, they would rather wage war on culture.
That’s not true, they have a strong Epstein culture.
buccees is well known, not for its gas stations, but to sue other small businesses in the area as them.
