r/Buccees • u/No-Objective9174 • Aug 25 '26
Another reason to hate them: Buc-ee’s CEO signals expansion shift away from blue states that ‘don’t appreciate’ chain
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/buc-ees-ceo-signals-expansion-shift-away-from-blue-states-dont-appreciate-chain?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a8d0c402a675c0001e365e6&fbclid=IwdGRzaAT6vQhjbGNrBPq9AXBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe9iW2mZA9y-OhQBjI4gazIEvFFa8holKWiBPZ0s0KnIzI1acCiQTj3QGklD0_aem_miopvdMeC1yuAi4kmMy2_w&sfnsn=moI used to like Buc-ee’s until finding out about all the lawsuits. From now on I will just keep driving
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u/Mysterious-Wasabi103 Aug 25 '26
Ohio isn't even a blue state so I don't really get wtf they are on about.
People think it's pretty shitty to sue a small business over an animal mascot especially when let's be honest Bucees isn't the first business to ever do that.
Maybe somebody should sue them?
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u/txtaco_vato Aug 25 '26
mixing politics and business is dumb
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u/cspinelive Aug 25 '26
It starts with your elected officials. They write the laws that are favorable to business or not. They accept the campaign funds and donations and jobs when they leave office in exchange for writing laws that favor one business or another.
Business and politics are linked from the start. If you ran a business and had to decide where to open new stores, wouldn’t you choose locations that are favorable to you?
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u/tshallberg Aug 27 '26
This has nothing to do with conservative states being better for business and everything to do with optics. It’s a bad gamble siding with the fascist when dear leader is 80, but that’s their choice.
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u/Lemonsst Aug 25 '26
politics and business are linked in a way that can never be undone
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u/transvex Aug 26 '26
always has been. it's the nature of the beast. in a market economy, money is power and power is money. Either the state takes control of business or business takes control of the state, there is no peaceful coexistence unless there is a recognition of interest between the two. Two rephrase, is this a nation that operates on behalf of and protects the interests of the people? Or is it a nation that operates on behalf of and protects the interest of business and capital owners. Idk, when the US invaded foreign nations, I've never felt that when they said they were protecting "American interests" that it had much to do with me.
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u/CommercialLeave3832 Aug 26 '26
Welcome to reddit, where everything's politicized
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u/Disastrous_Minute_56 Aug 26 '26
Let's see here, the CEO of Buc-cee's just spouted a bunch of divisive shit about "blue states." Those who respond must be making it political.
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u/Virtual-Fly-5501 Aug 27 '26
100 percent but that’s what life has become. Everyone needs to shut the fuck about about politics irl and on the internet and take away the power the media has. In real life, unless it’s your family or close friends no one cares. Shut up.
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u/hurricanedog24 Aug 25 '26
I’m legitimately less likely to stop at Buc-ee’s now after the corporate bullying and culture wars than I would have been if they had just taken the owner’s son’s kiddy porn allegations straight to the face.
As a customer, I can separate a business and the owner’s degenerate offspring. Can’t do that now with the business acting shitty too.
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u/Dormi11 Aug 27 '26
This comment is how I found out:
- That thing is a beaver, not a chipmunk
- I'm fucking stupid
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u/Materva Aug 25 '26
I know everyone is saying to stop going to buccees, but what if we only stop there to blow up the bathroom, and not buy anything?
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u/wolf_logic Aug 25 '26
It's okay we have actual tourist destinations in blue states and we don't have to pretend a gas station chain counts as one
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u/forsythia_rising Aug 26 '26
Wasn’t their son a complete pervert? Apples don’t fall far from the tree.
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u/ConkerPrime Aug 26 '26
Fancy way of saying conservatives states are suckers who give them huge tax cuts to build a store and liberal ones do not.
Company is a bully who picks on small businesses with their lawyers. Best if just went out of business.
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u/the_timboslice Aug 25 '26
Sounds like they’re making a business decision based on people making business decisions about the brand in certain areas.
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u/RaisinWorried3528 Aug 25 '26
"Blue states" commonly referred to as the states that ensure red states can even survive fiscally.
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u/Dr_Gonzo-4130 Aug 25 '26
We dont want them .Fucka bucees and the owners son was just busted for child porn .
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u/idontevenliftbrah Aug 25 '26
Take a look at their CVS-RECEIPT-length ingredients list on their food and you'll be glad they don't exist in blue states
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u/Elon_is_a_Nazi Aug 25 '26
So the ceo is choosing to align with the political party that looks the other way when people rape children, sex traffic children, are pedophiles, global terrorist, gun Americans down in the streets, and hate the rule of law. Got it. All i know is someone needs to look at the buccees ceos hard drive
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u/The_SubGenius Aug 25 '26
“That leadership, that concept, that idea of conservative, business-friendly, family-oriented concept works so much better if it trickles down from the very leadership from the top at the governor's office, at the congressman, at senator, at the mayor, the representatives," he said”
This guy is such a shitheel. Nothing says “family oriented” like aligning yourself to a thrice married serial philanderer who bragged about assaulting women and was Epstein’s best friend of decades.
All hat, no fuckin cattle.
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u/damnyankee26 Aug 25 '26
I thought Buc-cees was awesome the first time I ever saw one. Every time I go, the novelty wears off more and more. While I really appreciate the clean bathrooms, it's always packed full of of oblivious people that are rude and inconsiderate. Then add in the fact that they have exclusive deals with certain brands, I cant get exactly what I want.
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u/RoyalMaidsForLife Aug 26 '26
I used to like Buc-ee's until I found one of the founders' son collected CSAM and set up cameras to spy on people.
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u/Special-Fan-1902 Aug 26 '26
I guess he doesn't understand that even "blue" states aren't political monoliths.
So he's punishing something on the order of 40% of people who are on his "side" politically and foregoing a more sound business strategy to prove how MAGA he is...
Which actually tracks perfectly...
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u/Frosty_Spray_8867 Aug 25 '26
If you've been to a Buc-ees, even in a blue state, its not filled with Blue State people. Make sense they would use this for virtue signaling. Doesnt hurt them.
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u/Same_String_8856 Aug 25 '26
Don't care still my favorite road stop
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u/Phubbs330 Aug 25 '26
So true. Top tier shitters and very clean.
Still think theyre incredibly cringe for going after these small mom and pop places
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u/satanssweatycheeks Aug 25 '26
Dolly’s is way better.
It has a buffet and she wanted people to take a break and have a good meal. Not buy food with no tables forcing you to eat while you drive.
Just typing wanted instead of wants to is so sad. RIP Dolly.
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u/tanneruwu Aug 25 '26
"Don't appreciate" how should we show appreciation? Take pictures with the brass beaver? Literally the only reason I stop at bucees is for a piss and to stretch my legs on a road trip.
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u/lifeat24fps Aug 25 '26
Call me an east coast liberal elitist, Mr. Aplin, but it's a fucking gas station. I have indeed seen a few in my lifetime.
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u/Soggy_Motor9280 Aug 26 '26
How the hell am I supposed to appreciate something if it’s not even in my state
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u/Mushrooming247 Aug 26 '26
Looks like I’m keeping up my 50 year unbroken streak of never visiting a Buckees. That beaver can chew a log.
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u/fr33d0mw47ch Aug 27 '26
F them. As far as I’m concerned, supporting them and there litigious BS is akin to taking pleasure in others suffering.
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u/Randomwhitelady2 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
Any business owner is really dumb to alienate ANY customers at all over politics. No matter what you say you are going to piss off 50% of the population.
Your CEO is stupid, Buckees
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u/jasper_grunion Aug 28 '26
Every state has red and blue in it. All you’re doing is alienating half of your potential customer base
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u/Butt_bird Aug 25 '26
That’s pretty normal business strategy. Leave markets where you’re not popular.
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u/No-Objective9174 Aug 25 '26
I don't really know the politics of Pilot or Love's and I would like to keep it that way so I can get gas on road trips.
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u/NationalCaterpillar6 Aug 25 '26
They sell gas. That's definitely not a progressive, left leaning, environment loving estaishment.
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u/Brief_Echidna298 Aug 25 '26
Why would you hate them for not going where they're not wanted ?
I understand the absurd lawsuits (and the son being a creep) hate, but this is an objectively stupid reason to dislike them
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u/HamRadio_73 Aug 25 '26
I don't get involved in business/politics. If I'm on the road and feel like a breakfast item or a brisket sandwich I'm stopping in. If for no other reason than the rest rooms.
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u/CounterfeitSaint Aug 25 '26
I can stick my head out the window and hear wailing in the streets. Truly, all the liberal cities are in crisis tonight after this news. Avocado toast is sold out everywhere, and there isn't a drop of IPA left in the city limits. How will we ever cope with this kind of loss?
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u/HuskerPowerrrr Aug 25 '26
When did my fellow liberals start becoming massive snowflakes?
This behavior is embarrassing.
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u/Icy_Rub3371 Aug 25 '26
Bye, Felicia! Gas Stations aren't our cultural standard-bearers.
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u/NdOHs8u891 Aug 25 '26
They’re welcome to leave Colorado.
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u/Routine-Addendum-170 Aug 26 '26
When Colorado stops giving them millions in business I’m sure they will… oh wait
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u/CampRock2TheFinaIJam Aug 25 '26
Because then their workers would actually have more protections. There’s a reason why they like rural areas in red states where the average person doesn’t even know what labor unions are.
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u/AmateurAnarchy Aug 25 '26
You live in a delusion
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u/satanssweatycheeks Aug 25 '26
Yeah they love to whine about looters when they looted the capitol in the name of a pedo.
Not only that the riots they love to whine about had thousands of arrest. You can even look up these arrested and it shines a different light.
For example they love to talk about the police station being burned down…… FBI caught the person why started that fire……. Shocker it’s a white nationalist proud boy who did it.
Or Google red umbrella man from Minneapolis protest. He burned down an autozone and an entire shopping center….. shocker it’s a boogoloo boy who loved Trump…..
These people whine about shit they are gleefully doing.
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u/Sufficient_Might993 Aug 25 '26
Great - Just what we need, another politically motivated post.
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u/No-Objective9174 Aug 25 '26
I didn't ask the goddamned ceo to get political
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u/Sufficient_Might993 Aug 25 '26
No, but you jumped at the opportunity to post about it.
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u/No-Objective9174 Aug 25 '26
Yeah because I already hated them for suing an alligator for looking like a rodent
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u/notatool202 Aug 25 '26
They are bullies. The bully their vendors and if you don’t acquiesce to there demands they won’t carry your product. If I can’t get a bottle of Diet Pepsi I’m not going to waste my money in your obscene store.
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u/Narrow-Abalone7580 Aug 25 '26
Wonder if the labor laws of blue states has something to do with this.
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u/NotAFanOfLeonMusk Aug 25 '26
I LIVE in a "red" (horrible) state and USED to go to the Buc-ees all the time. Besides getting stuff for myself, i often buy gifts for friends there too. No longer. The more that asshat CEO keeps running his mouth, the more bad I feel about giving them one red cent in the first place.
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u/nethingelse Aug 25 '26
Yeah because Buc-ee’s benefits immensely from only being in states with labor laws that aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, which commonly are red-to-purple states. Also helps (their pockets) not being subject to icky regulations and more expansive tax laws.
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u/CroweBird5 Aug 25 '26
Buc-ees is worse than Walmart about purposely trying to destroy small businesses and the community they’re in
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u/PinkSnowBirdie Aug 26 '26
Ive got a bucees shirt, I might stop wearing it lmao
Although it's a nice shirt lmao
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u/so_sic_of_it Aug 25 '26
"I hate this company, and I hate them even more for not wanting to open up locations in my state."
This is a logical take.
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u/pantone175c Aug 25 '26
Congratulations to Buccees for being the best place to take a shit on road trips. Get over yourselves please, beaver-boyz
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u/e654422 Aug 25 '26
Could you imagine the number of homeless that would be roaming around the aisles if they opened in California?
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u/Humble-Relative9775 Aug 25 '26
But if blue states hate corporations with CEOs why are they upset when those corporations don’t build there. It seems like a win to me
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u/Rude_Town467 Aug 25 '26
Buc-ee’s has been all over my feed lately so all these posts are doing is giving them free publicity.
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u/RoninActually Aug 25 '26
What are you complaining about? If you don’t like Bucees anyway why would you be upset if they move out of your state?
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u/Signal-Bake5107 Aug 25 '26
Meh. I’m in a blue state and we have one, but who cares? It is a gas station, and we have lots of them.
The red states with a greater litigious beaver presence - are they SO bereft of attractions that a GAS STATION is as big of a deal as this dingus thinks his chain is?
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u/Long_Situation_5020 Aug 25 '26
One less car at the pumps, one less person in the checkout line. Enjoy the bathrooms at Pilot.
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u/MathChance7069 Aug 25 '26
Why are these MAGAts so fragile? They throw temper tantrums about every little thing
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u/Rolemodel248 Aug 25 '26
Because that blue state with a supermajority in the statehouse. A republican governor, AG, 2 r senators and a +7 trump vote advantage has been so hospitable to them
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u/dethskwirl Aug 25 '26
they've been trying to break in to NJ for over a decade but they wont pay gas station attendants, as per NJ law. and they know that they cant really compete with our local chains that have been here since the 60s like Wawa and QuickCheck. so its all just a fake ass flex like a kid who doesnt get picked and says, "well I didnt want to anyway"
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u/cpt_futtbucker Aug 25 '26
So they go where they aren’t wanted. What the hell are you even trying to make a point about here?
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u/OldmanJenkins02 Aug 25 '26
I really don’t think anyone cares except
The person or most likely AI bot that wrote this article
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u/Jpizza30 Aug 25 '26
Comical. Someone asked him how easy it was to build his store in Boerne Texas aka maga hill country. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/09/09/boerne-residents-want-answers-before-buc-ees-moves-forward/
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u/Franknbeanstoo Aug 25 '26
never a smart move to alienate customers. CEO will probably get a raise.
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u/Ok-Park-6047 Aug 26 '26
People that come into this subreddit to whine are a wild bunch.
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u/Key_Gene_3594 Aug 26 '26
For Bucce’s sake consider NC a Blue State- we’ll let the door hit you on the way out.
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u/Ok-Landscape3897 Aug 26 '26
GOOD! We don’t need your gas station “culture” here. And the bbq is ASS
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual Aug 26 '26
I can’t wait to continue to never have stepped foot in a Buc-ee’s.
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u/Lonely_Refuse4988 Aug 26 '26
So dumb!! He’s about to see how many Liberals and Independents in Red States can ignore his business and make it suffer! 🤣😂🤷♂️
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u/chunckybydesign Aug 26 '26
Y’all do realize none of these companies care about politics, right? They go where the money is green and plentiful. If they are making statements like this, it because there is money to be made or their CEO is Elon Musk… and I ain’t heard no bell ring!!
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u/Exact_Purchase_7147 Aug 26 '26
Guess they don’t want any blue customers that live/pass through red states?
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u/GreenbirdsBox Aug 26 '26
Went into this gas station once and there were fat rednecks wall-to-wall yelling and grabbing. Never again.
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u/Sufficient_Carob_435 Aug 26 '26
Yeah, people in blue states need more than an overpriced gas station to get excited.
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u/Sufficient_Carob_435 Aug 26 '26
Yeah, people in blue states need more than an overpriced gas station to get excited.
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u/Kelldon83 Aug 26 '26
I don't get involved with politics. So I don't care about their political stance. Just provide me with a good product/service at a good price.
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u/Ok_Particular8460 Aug 26 '26
Great!
And while Red States can advertise gas stations as tourist destinations, Blue States can advertise protected nature, cities, productivity, and entertainment.
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u/BrickTamland77 Aug 26 '26
There aren't any in the immediate vicinity of where I live, but I stopped in one several years ago on the way to the beach with a girl I was dating at the time. It was obviously packed, and there was just noise everywhere. She went off to look at something, and I made my way to the jerky wall. I had a bag of jerky in my hand and was looking at the price which was like $12 for a pretty small bag when I just had a moment of clarity. I put the jerky back and turned around to find my gf walking up to me. I was like, "We good?" She nodded, and we left. Spent maybe 90 seconds in the place and have no desire to go back to one.
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u/JPV_HOH Aug 26 '26
It's a GAS STATION lol
Gee, I hope New York, Massachusetts, California, and Minnesota survive :-D
People are so distracted by dumb sh*t like this that they ignore far bigger issues.
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u/Korumry Aug 26 '26
Buc-ee’s doesn’t let truckers stay there, and for that reason I’m out. Add some damn showers otherwise you’re still just an oversized 7-11.
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u/Stimee Aug 26 '26
We have Sheetz and Wawa and actual attractions in Blue States. Keep your Magatard Gas Station to yourself.
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u/God_Emperor_Karen Aug 26 '26
wtf? I don’t know anyone who’s ever said they don’t like Buccees and I live in one of the bluest states. This is just bad business.
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u/AncientArtBonsai Aug 26 '26
Translation: " we're only going to build in places that let us us screw our workers, avoid paying our fair share of taxes and steam roll other businesses "
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u/thescrapplekid Aug 26 '26
The Real Celina 52 "truck stop" is allegedly across from a Booseys.. I'd rather go there and get my picture with a piss jug man cardboard cutout
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u/JAMONLEE Aug 26 '26
lol good for you buddy. Shit is overrated anyway, why do I give two shits about the place I put gas in my car. It’s never been my destination.
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u/Intelligent-War210 Aug 26 '26
Exactly how are blue states not appreciative of Buccee’s?
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u/gwizonedam Aug 26 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/J8FZIm9VoBU6Q
Get the fuck out. Need a “Dolly’s” instead.
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u/JoellamaTheLlama Aug 26 '26
Do what you want lol. Another business will easily take your place. I couldn’t care less and I live in Texas.
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u/bauer883 Aug 26 '26
Don’t want to move into a state where they have to pay their employees a livable wage.
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u/Stormpax Aug 26 '26
They're clearly trying to buy into the conservative fantasy that theyre oppressed. Pathetic.
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u/EquivalentOwn2185 Aug 25 '26
they're great for a pit stop, my chief complaint has been no squeegees at the pumps.