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05-24-22, 12:58 PM
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05-24-22, 01:06 PM
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There's already gas stations there sufficient to meet demand.
05-24-22, 01:09 PM
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Stop thinking of Buc-ee's as a gas station, and start thinking of it as a diversified rest stop with bathrooms that are always clean. The two principal owners are stacking it big time.
05-24-22, 01:15 PM
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Yep, like Kum n Go, QT, and some of the newer Maverik stations. 20 kinds of slushees, a dozen different crappy coffee pumps, etc.
05-24-22, 01:25 PM
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There are not Buc'ees sufficient to meet demand. Try to keep up.
As Mojo alluded to, it's not just "a gas station". It's:
1) a gas station (with zero wait for pumps in super bright lights and covered)
2) sparkling-clean bathrooms with dozens and dozens of facilities (no waiting on a road trip for someone to walk out of leaving a Superfund site)
3) a convenience store with everything you discovered what you suddenly remembered you forgot for your trip
4) a restaurant with hot food and even things AG and I can fit into our restricted diets ready-to-go
5) an oasis on a road trip
6) a pillar of the community, employing at $15/hr in the middle of nowhere in Texas with insurance and vacation
Seriously, it humiliates every other place you've ever stopped. Sometimes it's ok to admit you just don't get it.
As Mojo alluded to, it's not just "a gas station". It's:
1) a gas station (with zero wait for pumps in super bright lights and covered)
2) sparkling-clean bathrooms with dozens and dozens of facilities (no waiting on a road trip for someone to walk out of leaving a Superfund site)
3) a convenience store with everything you discovered what you suddenly remembered you forgot for your trip
4) a restaurant with hot food and even things AG and I can fit into our restricted diets ready-to-go
5) an oasis on a road trip
6) a pillar of the community, employing at $15/hr in the middle of nowhere in Texas with insurance and vacation
Seriously, it humiliates every other place you've ever stopped. Sometimes it's ok to admit you just don't get it.
05-24-22, 01:25 PM
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Kind of hard to do when there's like an acre of gas pumps in front of it. There's got to be like four times as many gas pumps there as anywhere else in the area.
05-24-22, 01:25 PM
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05-24-22, 01:26 PM
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The only thing that approaches Buc'ees is the nicest Love's. And y'all might remember how much time I've spent driving across the country.
05-24-22, 01:32 PM
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There are not Buc'ees sufficient to meet demand. Try to keep up.
As Mojo alluded to, it's not just "a gas station". It's:
1) a gas station (with zero wait for pumps in super bright lights and covered)
2) sparkling-clean bathrooms with dozens and dozens of facilities (no waiting on a road trip for someone to walk out of leaving a Superfund site)
3) a convenience store with everything you discovered what you suddenly remembered you forgot for your trip
4) a restaurant with hot food and even things AG and I can fit into our restricted diets ready-to-go
5) an oasis on a road trip
6) a pillar of the community, employing at $15/hr in the middle of nowhere in Texas with insurance and vacation
Seriously, it humiliates every other place you've ever stopped. Sometimes it's ok to admit you just don't get it.
As Mojo alluded to, it's not just "a gas station". It's:
1) a gas station (with zero wait for pumps in super bright lights and covered)
2) sparkling-clean bathrooms with dozens and dozens of facilities (no waiting on a road trip for someone to walk out of leaving a Superfund site)
3) a convenience store with everything you discovered what you suddenly remembered you forgot for your trip
4) a restaurant with hot food and even things AG and I can fit into our restricted diets ready-to-go
5) an oasis on a road trip
6) a pillar of the community, employing at $15/hr in the middle of nowhere in Texas with insurance and vacation
Seriously, it humiliates every other place you've ever stopped. Sometimes it's ok to admit you just don't get it.
As Mojo31 pointed out, they barely make any money from the gas. Yet they're taking up all that space + maintenance costs for unneeded pumps.
See, I do get it!
05-24-22, 01:34 PM
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There are not Buc'ees sufficient to meet demand. Try to keep up.
As Mojo alluded to, it's not just "a gas station". It's:
1) a gas station (with zero wait for pumps in super bright lights and covered)
2) sparkling-clean bathrooms with dozens and dozens of facilities (no waiting on a road trip for someone to walk out of leaving a Superfund site)
3) a convenience store with everything you discovered what you suddenly remembered you forgot for your trip
4) a restaurant with hot food and even things AG and I can fit into our restricted diets ready-to-go
5) an oasis on a road trip
6) a pillar of the community, employing at $15/hr in the middle of nowhere in Texas with insurance and vacation
Seriously, it humiliates every other place you've ever stopped. Sometimes it's ok to admit you just don't get it.
As Mojo alluded to, it's not just "a gas station". It's:
1) a gas station (with zero wait for pumps in super bright lights and covered)
2) sparkling-clean bathrooms with dozens and dozens of facilities (no waiting on a road trip for someone to walk out of leaving a Superfund site)
3) a convenience store with everything you discovered what you suddenly remembered you forgot for your trip
4) a restaurant with hot food and even things AG and I can fit into our restricted diets ready-to-go
5) an oasis on a road trip
6) a pillar of the community, employing at $15/hr in the middle of nowhere in Texas with insurance and vacation
Seriously, it humiliates every other place you've ever stopped. Sometimes it's ok to admit you just don't get it.
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05-24-22, 01:45 PM
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I'm willing to concede it's the awesomest not-gas station ever. That still doesn't justify all the pumps.
As Mojo31 pointed out, they barely make any money from the gas. Yet they're taking up all that space + maintenance costs for unneeded pumps.
See, I do get it!
As Mojo31 pointed out, they barely make any money from the gas. Yet they're taking up all that space + maintenance costs for unneeded pumps.
See, I do get it!
05-24-22, 01:55 PM
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I'm willing to concede it's the awesomest not-gas station ever. That still doesn't justify all the pumps.
As Mojo31 pointed out, they barely make any money from the gas. Yet they're taking up all that space + maintenance costs for unneeded pumps.
See, I do get it!
As Mojo31 pointed out, they barely make any money from the gas. Yet they're taking up all that space + maintenance costs for unneeded pumps.
See, I do get it!
If you've ever driven with a female, you know they will have you drive all over creation in search of a clean toilet. Well, Buc-ee's is the place.
The guys know what they are doing. They are making serious bank.
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05-24-22, 01:56 PM
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His opinion is unsullied by actual experience.
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05-24-22, 01:59 PM
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So the two Texansformer yank and enlightened Texan by proclamation and displaced New Yorker who have experience with Buc'ees say it's amazing. It's successful enough that it's expanding into your state. Buuuuuut you (who has never been to one) know better than the rest of us?
My daughter and her fiance (he's had never been to a Buc-ee's before this) stopped for gas and a break once. He went in to get some snacks for the drive while she filled up her car. He stayed in there for an hour wandering and buying junk before she called him back to the car. The places are traps.
05-24-22, 01:59 PM
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05-24-22, 02:23 PM
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WTF!!! Image manipulation has now gone beyond reasonable or even worthwhile.
05-24-22, 02:31 PM
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05-24-22, 02:34 PM
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05-24-22, 02:35 PM
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New next door neighbors are moving in. Includes a young child/baby and two much older kids. Maybe late teens and/or early 20s. The boy rides. Saw his new looking Trek road bike. He looks like a serious cyclist. They also have a cute pooch named Nina. Hope she’s not happy. They came from Boston.
05-24-22, 02:37 PM
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05-24-22, 02:39 PM
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All I said that is the one they're building in Crossville has too many gas pumps. Not sure why you "Texans" are taking it personally. SMH.
05-24-22, 02:42 PM
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05-24-22, 02:45 PM
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It's not too many gas pumps; it's more gas pumps than you're used to. You're going to be shocked when you walk into the restrooms the first time too and probably say it has too many facilities.
05-24-22, 02:45 PM
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Nothing personal on this end as I have nothing to do with the company. I'm just surprised that you would pass judgment without any apparent understanding of the business model.
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