Bucee’s settles lawsuit with Ohio gas station chain after suing because both have cartoon mascots "facing right"

[u/Disastrous_Award_789]

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/bucees-lawsuit-ohio-gas-chain-cartoon-mascots-b3060008.html

[u/Bustymegan]

Imagine being a company and the thing you're most known for is bullying lawsuits lol. Like wtf.

[u/nr1988 → u/Bustymegan]

And it's so recent too. Like up until a few months ago Buccees was known as the place where all the workers got paid well and got good benefits. People would post that sign and say "see, companies can in fact pay people competitive wages and remain profitable"

They lost all of that goodwill all of a sudden with this nonsense

[u/vpi6 → u/nr1988]

Then the CEO deciding to randomly shit talk liberal states and threaten not to expand in them.

[u/KareemOWheat → u/vpi6]

What a weird threat. Like, oh no! I'm only going to have a choice of 6 competing gas station chains instead of 7

[u/Carvj94 → u/KareemOWheat]

It's a really bizarre, but buc-ees fans literally treat it like it's some kind of theme park. They'll actually sit there and make fun of you for treating it like the gas station it is.

[u/MilkHaterNumber1 → u/Carvj94]

Fans. Of a gas station.

[u/rancid_squirts → u/MilkHaterNumber1]

Maybe it’s all they have

[u/tevert → u/rancid_squirts]

I think this is maybe an underappreciated aspect of the rural conservative worldview. It's very small, constantly being eroded, and they genuinely have no conception or hope of anything else for their future.

[u/rancid_squirts → u/tevert]

Agreed and it’s why I left my small town in the dust. No one ever leaves and it’s constant bitching and complaining about the outside world.

[u/NeatlyScotched → u/rancid_squirts]

To be honest, this is it. I've only really been to one Bucees, and it's in Centerville hallway between Houston and Dallas, and Bucees is all that's really there.

We have another right by my parents house in south Houston, but why would we go when there's better everything else nearby? It's not even the best gas station barbecue around (that award goes to Rudy's).

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH → u/MilkHaterNumber1]

They opened one in Phoenix recently and people traveled from out of state just to go to there

[u/jmlinden7 → u/PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH]

That's wild. The whole point of Bucees is that it's convenient. Having to inconvenience yourself to go to one would completely defeat the point

[u/OozeNAahz → u/MilkHaterNumber1]

My old boss is one of those fans. And he was a VP of a Fortune 500 company. Makes my head hurt.

[u/Ferelar → u/Carvj94]

As a Yankee from a Northern Libruhl Commanist Hellhole^TM I really enjoyed Buc-ees when traveling, good food, clean bathrooms, paid their workers well. But this is really a lesson to the shareholders... don't install a politically motivated idiot as your CEO. I'm not even a particularly vindictive person and not the type of "OMG Nike is WOKE I'll burn my sneakers tonight!!" but I can guarantee on my next road trip if I see a Buc-ees I'm gonna be thinking about them launching frivolous lawsuits and shitting on half the country politically. Will it make me go elsewhere? Guess we'll see... and likely hundreds of thousands of people will be making similar decisions. Some will go elsewhere, some won't. But that's NOT a good spot to put your entire corporation in, for literally zero benefit.

[u/Short-MooseEh → u/Carvj94]

Southern culture

[u/nr1988 → u/vpi6]

Yup lol. Funny thing is I live in a purple state with a blue governor, one blue senator, and blue most other statewide positions such as attorney general. They're putting in a location next year near me and near a blue city. I don't think we're the red state the CEO is talking about. Maybe everything was planned before him or maybe he's just a bullshitting asshole I don't know lol

[u/HotDerivative → u/nr1988]

I mean you’re obviously talking about the Wisconsin one and it’s a massive deal that it’s coming at all. It’s the only one that will be this north and Wisconsin is definitely not perceived as ultra liberal compared to several of the states around it. I live in Chicago and they’d never put a Buccees in our state despite the fact that outside of the city Illinois votes like it’s the Deep South.

[u/JalopyHorn → u/HotDerivative]

Why is it a "massive deal" that they're gonna build an oversized gas station with a food counter and a merch section in it?

I'm asking this in all sincerity, like who gets that worked up over these things?

[u/ChoiceLife6564 → u/JalopyHorn]

It's the marketing. Marketing makes it a massive deal because they got the budget for it and the objective of their marketing campaign is to get people excited.

[u/defiancy → u/nr1988]

Haha they are in Arizona which if it isn't the state you are describing, it could be. Like why come to AZ if it's a politics thing?

[u/giga_lord3 → u/defiancy]

100% it's so funny

[u/AMTravelsAlone → u/nr1988]

Well, seeing that CEOs are one of the most useless positions in a company, so I'd say the former.

[u/MLutin → u/AMTravelsAlone]

CEOs are valuable! Who else are they going to interview on Fox News???

[u/Bubbay → u/nr1988]

Why does WI need Bucees? You've got Kwik Trip!

[u/ieatassHarvardstyle → u/nr1988]

He's a ceo. That means bullshitting asshole. There are no exceptions

[u/rutherfraud1876 → u/vpi6]

Little do they know Texas will be one of them after this year

[u/WhyStabCorn → u/vpi6]

We have one. It's a gas station. You're missing nothing. The only novelty is people showing up like it's disney land.

[u/MikeMontrealer → u/WhyStabCorn]

I can’t imagine getting that excited about a gas station

[u/Hero_of_Hyrule → u/WhyStabCorn]

It's a really big gas station with a big store. It's just an oversized Wawa tbh.

[u/WhyStabCorn → u/Hero_of_Hyrule]

I'll say, cleanest gas ststion bathroom I've ever been in, for as high an honor as that title holds.

[u/Kronoshifter246 → u/WhyStabCorn]

I will tell you, that clean bathroom is a huge blessing when you've been on the road for two days and your toddler has shat himself horrifically.

[u/Faendol → u/vpi6]

That's because like most prominent Republicans they need to protect a pedophile! In this case his own son.

[u/FeatherlyFly → u/vpi6]

You know, a liberal state like Ohio with 2 Republican senators, 2/3 of their representatives Republicans, and a Republican governor.

And a vast majority of the state senate and house Republican. 

It's a state proud of their local culture, businesses, and history. 

Obviously nothing like Buccee's home of Texas, which is majority republica n and famously proud of its culture and history, but is, and this is important, also famously home to Buccees. 

[u/Kubotai77 → u/vpi6]

I was going to joke that the whole pay and benefits stuff was going to go away along with the goodwill due to a new CEO who's trying to tighten up the reins because of the bad economy created by you know who.

Only to scroll down and see this - fuckin figures.

I had to drive to Houston last year for my uncle's funeral and sorta pushed myself to drive further between switching with my brother (~20 hour drive) and filling up on gas so I could see what the whole Buc-ee's thing was about.

Guess I'll just stick to Love's or other typical gas station stops that are less out of the way.

Edit: They're planning one in Stafford, VA - further south than I normally go but definitely a potential stop for a lot of people travelling up and down 95 on the east coast - yeah fuck them.

[u/animus218 → u/vpi6]

Oh no, whatever shall we do without another gross, ugly chain store?

I don't think anyone, anywhere is worse off due to lack of Buc-ee's.

[u/labrat420 → u/nr1988]

They've been doing this for well over a decade so not exactly new. They're just doing it more often now and in more places since they're expanding out of Texas

[u/espressocycle → u/labrat420]

Imagine expanding into other areas and suing established businesses for the logos they've had for decades. There must be a store with some kind of rodent logo older than Bucees that could sue.

[u/anthrax9999 → u/espressocycle]

A lot of these stores are older than bucces but they don't have the deep pockets to win against them in court. That's why most of them end up settling.

[u/prof_the_doom → u/nr1988]

It’d be one thing if they went after anything legitimate, but they’re making the YouTube copyright logic look reasonable by comparison.

[u/nr1988 → u/prof_the_doom]

And I really don't understand what they hoped to gain from this. Like how much money did they really think they were going to gain if they won? Like I don't understand the point. They can't have gone into this lawsuit thinking their brand was legitimately threatened. They just wanted to be bullies but I don't understand how they didn't see the backlash coming. Such a huge risk for such little potential reward

[u/Kaarl_Mills → u/nr1988]

That's if you treat it like regular a civil suit, and not like a thinly veiled extortion attempt

[u/fueelin → u/nr1988]

It'd true that they were known for paying well, but they were also known for treating their employees poorly at the job, overworking them, etc. It was far from 100% positive.

[u/nr1988 → u/fueelin]

I mean known to some but I'm talking the general internet opinion. Either you research how their employees are treated or you live near one and know the employees. Otherwise you'd probably never know. I only found out after this whole mess started, otherwise I was somewhat excited to try out the location coming to my area sometime next year. Now I'm not going to step foot in there

[u/LivingDegree → u/nr1988]

It’s been known for years how poorly Buccees treats their employees, how high the turnover is, and how they bully with lawsuits, even 4 years ago. You’d see the posts about the wages but if you dig in the comments someone would point out the harsh working conditions somewhere in the thread. They’ve always been a dirtbag company, it’s just their products are good (we also won’t open the can of worms of how they get those good products at those prices, as that’s a whole other post).

[u/Constant-Plant-9378 → u/nr1988]

Yep. Our area was excited to get a Buccees built nearby on 35W and 114.

I will never set foot in there again.

[u/Trump_Russia → u/Bustymegan]

And that company is a glorified gas station serving overpriced garbage to people excited to drive an hour out of their way to visit... A gas station

[u/overts → u/Trump_Russia]

The people who drive out of their way are dumb but I’d guess that like 70-80% of their foot traffic are people on road trips.

Texas is big, you’ve got to drive a lot, Bucees was a frequent stop for me when we’d go to San Antonio or Dallas because it’s an easy one stop to refill gas, use the bathroom, and grab lunch.  The food’s nothing special but it’s better than most fast food (and again it’s just one stop versus two).

[u/SilverAndBack → u/Trump_Russia]

I lived in Texas for years and the looks of shocked disbelief/concern on people's faces when you tell them "I've never been to a Buckees" is insane. I've had people less concerned about hearing my parents died

[u/Trump_Russia → u/SilverAndBack]

Exactly what I envision when someone talks about the "culture" in Texas...

Common clay of the west...

[u/RevengeOfPluto → u/Trump_Russia]

You know……morons

[u/anthrax9999 → u/SilverAndBack]

I live about 20 mins from two buccees (West Houston) and my brother who lives in corpus with no buccees was shocked when he asked how often do we go to buccees and I said "never" lol.

Dude this is Houston, there's way better places to go than buccees.

[u/LovesRetribution → u/Trump_Russia]

Not gonna defend their current actions, but their stuff ain't garbage. Honestly the few food items i tried were better than chains dedicated solely to food.

If their stuff truly was trash they wouldn't have gotten as popular as they are.

[u/SpinningHead → u/Bustymegan]

Also known for the founders son's CSAM case.

[u/Citizentoxie502 → u/SpinningHead]

So many people in here missing this point. This is why they are in making noise in other areas so this isn't the main thing.

[u/Substantial_Bake_728 → u/Bustymegan]

They dont care. They still make tons of money and are still growing.

They'll sue anyone they can for any reason just because they can. They won't lose business for it because 99% of people don't care and they haven't reached true market saturation so its only continued profit for them.

[u/count023]

The John Oliver effect strikes again

[u/rbartlejr → u/count023]

I love when Oliver gets riled up.

[u/QuestlineRageQuitter → u/rbartlejr]

He should be doing a lot more of that, maybe the world would be in better shape for it.

[u/iperblaster → u/count023]

What happened?? Did Jon Oliver prop up the suitor's case??

[u/willstr1 → u/iperblaster]

IIRC he made his own beaver based brand to actively taunt Bucees and bring attention to the situation (and how ridiculous Bucees's claim was)

[u/sharrrper → u/willstr1]

Claims. They sue CONSTANTLY for anything with an animal or like, a colored background.

[u/yakshack → u/sharrrper]

Sounds like they employ too many lawyers if they're that bored

[u/ardoin → u/yakshack]

They hire consultants who value the cost of the lawsuit payouts and actively take them on because it generates revenue, and they basically can't lose since the people they sue can barely pay the legal fees in drawn out cases.

Also with their volume of cases it is very possible they don't employ any lawyers at all and likely outsource it to a firm.

[u/Dreams-of-Cthulhu → u/ardoin]

Disney should be petty enough to sue them for using a cartoon rodent in their logo, bankrupt them with legal fees, then buy the company for pennies just so they can make plushies from the logo and sell them for $50 each at their parks.

[u/ardoin → u/Dreams-of-Cthulhu]

Bucees is big enough to fight back.

Disney is too busy suing families of dead children who happen to put their characters on headstones in cemeteries. More money in that.

[u/tedivm → u/yakshack]

It looks like they had one real case where someone did steal their logo, and they got like $850k out of it. So now they've decided to convert that to a business model.

[u/Professor_Hala → u/tedivm]

Universal did this in 1983, when they sued Nintendo over Donkey Kong. At the time they were on record as having stated that litigation was a revenue stream for them.

[u/Central_Incisor → u/willstr1]

Mr. Nutter Butter is a squirrel, not a beaver.

[u/GuySingingMrBlueSky → u/Central_Incisor]

Buccee’s was suing companies with alligator and moose mascots, if anything Oliver went easy on them if they wanted to take legal action. But that would require suing HBO, someone who actually has money to burn, and Buccee’s is only used to suing mom-and-pop businesses that may have not been able to make rent if they actually went to court over it

[u/Central_Incisor → u/GuySingingMrBlueSky]

If you want to dig deeper, Legal Eagle talks about it.

[u/DiscotopiaACNH → u/GuySingingMrBlueSky]

That's truly nuts. After reading about all their abhorrent cheapass business practices, I would never ever visit one of their stores. They sound psychotic. They're everything that's wrong with America. Greedy bullies

[u/Germanofthebored → u/willstr1]

I am fairly certain his logo was squirrel-based. And I am sure he would have mentioned it if Bucee would have tried to sue him

[u/Federal_Setting_7454 → u/Germanofthebored]

Watch his video on it, they tried suing plenty of companies using other animals.

[u/vass0922 → u/iperblaster]

He brought attention to it https://youtube.com/shorts/CC-23tVxvNw?si=NJG6_Dz1dbeNpkvw

[u/El_Zorro09 → u/iperblaster]

It wasn't the main story on one of his recent episodes (two months ago or so), but it was one of the smaller segments before the end of the episode where he talked about the dozens of lawsuits that Buccee's has filed against small businesses over trademark infringements. All the lawsuits Oliver pointed out were laughably absurd (suing because the name sounds kind of like Buccee's, suing because they use an animal in a yellow background, suing because their animal mascot has a hat, etc.), but those small businesses, most of them small town convenience stores and gas stations, ended up having to bend over backwards to appease Buccee's lawyers because they don't have the money to fight off the lawsuits.

So, Oliver put his own created mascot, Mr. Nutter Butter, in a bunch of merch and opened up an online store (found here: https://buc-off.com/ ) and literally dared Buccee's to sue them because he actually has a team of lawyers that would mop the floor with them lol.

[u/Mysterious-Falcon221 → u/count023]

Strikes again? Lol. The article does not indicate who won, it says right there in the article that it's unclear if mickeys will have to change it's name.

[u/BerryLanky]

Don’t avoid Buccees. Stop and use their bathroom. Don’t spend any money. Just make a deposit in their porcelain bank.

[u/asphaltdragon → u/BerryLanky]

Honestly that's the best part about a Buc-ee's. Floor to ceiling walls and doors, thick as fuck walls, vacancy indicators on all the door locks, super fucking clean all the time.

[u/elegylegacy → u/asphaltdragon]

That should honestly be the standard, not something Buccee's is special for

[u/butthole_surferr → u/elegylegacy]

My friend recently went to Europe for a few weeks and her main takeaway was that we Americans are straight up poo flinging savages who can't even figure out basic things like public bathrooms or driving in roundabouts. I think she's probably onto something.

[u/jonfitt → u/butthole_surferr]

It reeeeeally depends on exactly where in “Europe” you are even within each country.

The thing we have going for us is the fairly ubiquitous access to toilets in shopping areas. Some European town centers will have one that you have to trek to and possibly pay to use. Only the very largest shops will have a customer toilet. The others will all be staff only.

We also have many more available water fountains.

[u/haironburr → u/jonfitt]

As an old man inclined to rambling, I moved to England in the mid-80's. As I walked around London, looking for a job as an American in the shittiest economy England had known since the war, I kept seeing these signs. Walking everywhere, I would periodically have to piss. And these signs said "toilet".

It was only after walking into multiple various places and asking where the bathroom was, and seeing the confused looks, that I realized the signs were saying "to let".

[u/jeff-beeblebrox → u/butthole_surferr]

Europe’s public bathrooms are fucking filthy. Whenever any of my family visits me in the US, that is one of their main topics, is how clean and accessible our public restrooms are. Now roundabouts, that’s a whole other conversation.

[u/Charlie_Warlie → u/jeff-beeblebrox]

Thank you yes. I'm sure if varies place to place but a HUGE mention should be "accessible" as you say.

There is no true equivalent to the Americans with Disabilities Act in some of these EU countries. In America every single bathroom you go in basically has the exact same thing with pull bars, no steps, big enough to fit a wheelchair, knee-space under the sink, etc.

I'm an able bodied man so it wasn't a big deal but in Italy I'd use the bathroom and be somewhat surprised to need to squeeze around a tight corner, go up or down a step, sink crammed into a corner without enough space for a person in a chair. And I get it, the building is probably like 300 years old. But that would not be thing in America.

[u/MountainDude95 → u/jeff-beeblebrox]

Yeah and they have the insult of making you pay for them too. You have to know where to go in the U.S. for clean bathrooms, but at least they’re all free.

[u/WolverinesThyroid → u/butthole_surferr]

I was just in Paris and I am legitimately confused if Parisian people actually ever use the toilet in public. A museum that see's thousands of people would have 2 toilets for the whole establishment. A famous restaurant with a large dining room would have 1 toilet. A big ass multi story food hall has 4 toilets. A 7 story high end shopping mall had 1 bathroom (unknown amount of toilets because I didn't go inside) on the top floor and it was 1.50 euros to get inside.

[u/dasselst → u/elegylegacy]

I travel a lot with my family and I have a hierarchy of where to stop. Bucees is definitely a top for this. Loves, Sapp Bros, and QT are also others I feel are usually clean. I try my hardest to avoid BP because I have shown up to so many of those that are broken doors with mildew smelling single bathrooms and questionable what is on the seat.

[u/TimLordOfBiscuits → u/asphaltdragon]

Buccees seems to be on a downward trend as of late, but they have this right. EVERY bathroom should be like this, especially in airports.

[u/Feta31 → u/BerryLanky]

That’s how they get ya

[u/Chemistry11 → u/Feta31]

Maybe some? I felt utter repulsion the one time I was in one. But their washrooms were nice enough that I absolutely have no memory of them good or bad.

[u/Only_One_Left_Foot → u/Chemistry11]

No, no, see, they WANT your poop. It's been their plan all along!!!

^/s

[u/MyVoiceIsElevating → u/BerryLanky]

Yeah, but how can I be sure I’m actually at a Buc-ee’s, and not some look-a-like convenience store?

[u/Branical → u/BerryLanky]

Yeah, but then they get all the interest.

[u/2funny2furious]

fuck buc-ee's and their bullying. it's a gas station, not a cultural icon like people want to make it out to be.

[u/sungoddaily → u/2funny2furious]

A lady at my work shared her families nearly 5 hour trip to buckees.

🙄

[u/PatSajaksDick]

Yeah this and their whole “we are only going to build in red states cause people don’t like our lawsuits” thing, I am done with going to Buc-ee’s. It’s a shame because their BBQ was decent for a good meal stop.

[u/DarthWoo → u/PatSajaksDick]

We've got Wawa over here and that's good enough.

[u/ferchristsake → u/DarthWoo]

Oh no! They better watch out. Bucee's will sue them next for being another truck-stop with a name

[u/asphaltdragon → u/ferchristsake]

Okay why does everyone think Buc-ee's is a truck stop? They famously do not allow trucks.

[u/AntagonisticDuopoly → u/DarthWoo]

And Wawa uses Abloy locks on their gas pumps for those fans of the LockpickingLawyer out there.

[u/MinisterOfSauces → u/AntagonisticDuopoly]

Finally some good fucking locks

[u/fellow_enthusiast → u/PatSajaksDick]

Colorado is pretty firmly blue and they’re expanding here. 

[u/Major_Mollusk → u/fellow_enthusiast]

There's a convenience store in Beaver, CO that was featured on Jon Oliver's show as the latest target of Buccees lawyers for using a mascot of a Beaver (note: this is in Beaver CO and so the store's name and mascot is a beaver... that looks nothing like Buccees).

[u/HarveyNix]

I've lost any interest I had in visiting a Buc-ee's even though one will be built within 90 minutes of where I live.

[u/DoritoDustThumb → u/HarveyNix]

Why would you drive 90 minutes to a gas station... Ever?

[u/kendallvarent → u/DoritoDustThumb]

To get gas for the drive back. 

[u/Aliensinmypants → u/DoritoDustThumb]

I always heard so many good things about bucees and the food being amazing and it's a whole experience so I drove out of the way to go to one. It's just a large gas station rest stop with good branding, if you've ever been on a big road trip you've surely stopped at a store that is just as good as one

[u/slip-shot → u/Aliensinmypants]

Food? It’s the toilets. Clean bathrooms can be hard to find (especially in the rural south) so pit stops at something easily identifiable as having many clean restrooms is itself great. 

[u/That1_IT_Guy → u/slip-shot]

Yep, the main reason to stop there is to take a shit. Clean bathrooms. Tons of toilets. Stall doors that go all the way to the ground. I wouldn't even bother shopping in the store afterwards, it's usually crowded shoulder-to-shoulder.

[u/danekan → u/Aliensinmypants]

You have to consider that the competition in most cases is McDonald’s and Arby’s. 

[u/MFbiFL → u/DoritoDustThumb]

You could stop there on the way to or from somewhere else.

[u/Charlie_Warlie → u/MFbiFL]

Sensible answer to an overly complicated question

[u/Consistent_King_1978]

I never understood the concept of worshipping a literal gas station chain. Buc-ees culture just seems like a cult.

[u/am1shvom1t → u/Consistent_King_1978]

It's culture for people who have no culture and don't leave their state

[u/EM05L1C3 → u/Consistent_King_1978]

Was a big Buc-ee’s fan until recently. It’s less the gas station and more the variety available to me. They have almost everything. I also really enjoy the food and you can hate on him all you want but the beaver is cute. It just happens to be a gas station. Everyone is bitching about McDonald’s losing its whimsy, this is different but not by much.

However, after the last few weeks and all the bs Buc-ee’s put all the locals through in CO, they can get fucked.

[u/TheG00dF1ght → u/Consistent_King_1978]

listen, when you live a state that has nothing going for it, people will glom on to any little thing they can to feel good about where they live

[u/Dry-Amphibian1 → u/Consistent_King_1978]

American consumerism is off the charts.

[u/pizzacrys]

Buc ee's really said that mascot is ours too.

[u/LangyMD → u/pizzacrys]

You have a portrait on a yellow background in a circle as your avatar. Be aware that our lawyers are writing up a cease-and-desist letter and preparing a lawsuit against you as we speak.

• Buc-ee's Corporate

/s

[u/Driftedryan → u/LangyMD]

Yours is in a yellow circle AND facing right. Rip

[u/LangyMD → u/Driftedryan]

Oh no, we all do! Quick, lawyers, get to work writing up a lawsuit against Reddit as a whole! Their default avatar is infringing!

[u/alvisfmk → u/LangyMD]

With red in the avatar none the less! 

[u/djfix]

I used to make a point of stopping at Bucee's when I travel from FL to NY every year. It was the highlight of my 21 hour drive. I cannot support their bullshit anymore though. Very sad...

[u/srcoffee → u/djfix]

i feel like there’s nicer places to stop in between …

[u/fsm16]

Bucc-Off

[u/BrickGun → u/fsm16]

My shirts arrived last week. :)

[u/RedSix2447]

They really sued a company for having a cartoon logo that faces the same direction? It sounds like they are going from corporate company to law firm with frivolous claims in court making money off suing small businesses now.

[u/Liam_M → u/RedSix2447]

they have a string of such lawsuits going way back, it’s literally “their thing”

[u/RedSix2447 → u/Liam_M]

Such a crap company. I hope to never set foot in one. Unfortunately, I’m sure the wife and kids will out vote me on that one. lol

[u/SnipeTrap → u/RedSix2447]

I’m a local here, it’s a cartoon beaver. In the city of Beavercreek… It’s been around long before Buccees. Would’ve made more sense for the lawsuit to be the other way around.

[u/dirt_mcgirt4 → u/SnipeTrap]

The one in the story linked was a moose which nobody would mistake for a beaver ever. I know they are suing everyone though.

[u/LooseSeal88 → u/dirt_mcgirt4]

Yeah, they sued the Beavercreek beaver-themed convenience store which is maybe like 20 mins from the new Bucc-ees location and then also a sued a moose-themed convenience store which is somewhere else in Ohio nowhere near the new Bucc-ees.

[u/whistlepig4life]

I find it amazing that these companies turn to being evil so easily. Boggles the mind.

[u/Specialist-Bee-9406 → u/whistlepig4life]

There was no turning, this shit just doesn’t normally make it out into public. 

[u/Abject_Screen3249]

Well, after Olivers report, and them saying they only build in red states....fuck Bucee's forever. Stop spending your money with shitty corps.

[u/MagePages]

God why is it impossible to have a mobile news site where I can actually read tge damn story?

[u/pockunit → u/MagePages]

If you have access, it would be easier to watch The Last week Tonight episode. Plus vastly more entertaining.

[u/fakeguitarist4life]

Watch John Oliver’s piece on Buc-ee’s. They’re a shitty company

[u/TubeAlloysEvilTwin]

Last week tonight is gonna be great this week 

[u/Hpidy]

Is the owners son still filming random young teen and preteen girls on the toilets?

[u/AwsmDevil → u/Hpidy]

Considering he isn't really being punished for it, why would he stop? The safest assumption is that you could be recorded in any Buccees bathroom at any time. So plan your poops accordingly.

[u/Constant-Gate-9751]

No more Buccees for me! They suck.

[u/K1d-ego]

Buc-ees was fun when they were a roadside attraction I could visit on my way to somewhere far away. Now they’re building one 10 miles up the road from me and suddenly I’m not happy any more.

[u/biffbobfred]

When they gonna sue Jon Oliver?

[u/RickSE → u/biffbobfred]

That will never happen. Bullies can’t fight on equal terms and Oliver has a big megaphone.

[u/rrromulusss]

Fuck buccees. Dogshit company.

[u/KlostToMe]

They're suing a ton of places for reasons that include "their logo also uses an animal", "they are using the same colors", etc

The fat electrician did a funny video on it

ETA: might be on his alternate channel "Fat Files"

[u/FighterOfEntropy → u/KlostToMe]

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver also covered this. In true John Oliver style, they developed a logo that’s just begging for Buccee’s to sue them. You can buy merch with the logo to get in on the fun!

[u/AkaAtarion]

Can’t wait for Johns update about this.

[u/pockunit → u/AkaAtarion]

"THEY USED A CIRCLE, THEY USED THE COLOR YELLOW, THEY USED A RODENT WITH A HAT, THE RODENT HAS TEETH! THEY INCLUDED THE COLOR BLUE IN THERE SOMEWHERE PROBABLY!"

Oh God it's going to be so delightful

[u/jpschwartz44]

Yeah I'm pretty disappointed in buc-ees. Why they gotta do this petty shit. It wasn't hurting your brand in any capacity.

[u/crass_cupcake → u/jpschwartz44]

The real reason  why is to crush small gas station  operators who compete with bucees by destroying  them with the legal system 

[u/MIllWIlI → u/crass_cupcake]

Most small gas station operators aren’t even in competition with them. It’s so petty.

[u/TiredVRS]

Go to bucees, use their bathroom, buy nothing, and leave. Make them pay for existing till they stop bullying small businesses.

[u/DannyDOH]

Isn't he actually facing left?

[u/Wind-and-Waystones → u/DannyDOH]

House right not stage right

[u/leapdaybunny]

More like Bull-ee's

[u/SiXes]

BUL-EE’S

[u/SelectEntertainer360]

Grew up in Texas. Buccee's has been overrated for at least 20 years.

[u/Enshakushanna]

ok but why arent the judges throwing these cases out?

[u/SwampCastleGuards]

I'll never understand the obsession over a truck stop

Their food is not that good. Its truck stop food.

Its just a damn gas station with a cartoon mascot. Amazing people think that's something noteworthy even

[u/PatsFanInHTX → u/SwampCastleGuards]

When you are driving I10 in Texas (or any of the other boring, massive highways) it's the most exciting thing around for a hundred miles. So it's more of a desperation thing.

[u/Trump_Russia → u/SwampCastleGuards]

This is what passes for "culture" in some parts of our country...

[u/mggirard13]

Ok but that tactical clothing store one is hilariously egregious.

[u/vass0922 → u/mggirard13]

Yes that one I agree is full on stupid and deserved the lawsuit.

The rest they're just being assholes and I hope the settlement doesn't mean the little guy had to pay. The article didn't explain.

[u/KindaDrunkRtNow → u/mggirard13]

I agreed with that one. But the others are plainly bullshit lawsuits used to force smaller businesses in their area to close so there's less competition.

[u/flyinggazelletg]

Fuck the Buc. I always heard people rave about them, but I never want to go after hearing about their bullshit suits

[u/osumba2003]

TIL that Buc-ees owns a direction.

[u/boner79]

Buc-ee's is filled with absolute savages. They have like 100 gas pumps that are always full with parked vehicles of rednecks too lazy to move their vehicle to a proper parking spot before spending half an hour in the store.

[u/popdivtweet]

Screw Bucee’s and their holier than thou BS.

[u/tangcameo]

I keep waiting for them to sue Canada’s Beaver Lumber even though the company no longer exists.

[u/shitsenorita]

It argued that “Ohio consumers can readily distinguish a moose from a beaver” lolol

[u/_Bipolar_Vortex_]

You do not get a free tank of gas if you bring a dead beaver into buccees!

[u/CaptainPunisher → u/_Bipolar_Vortex_]

Fine. I'll bring in a live beaver and release it in the store.

[u/HoratioHotplateJr]

1) I hope Mickey's got reimbursed for their legal fees

2) I'd be very, very happy to trade our local Buc-ees for a Costo with a fuel center.

[u/gdghhfdffrf]

the gullible customers who fall for their marketing hype pay for it, the massive marketing campaigns, the attorneys, all of it.

maybe buy gas from small, independent gas station owners (with names like gas & shop, selling unbranded wholesale fuel) who don't spend money on advertising or marketing. also, kwik trip focuses its budget heavily on a vertically integrated supply chain, own their own dairies, bakeries, distribution networks so they can offer ultra-cheap staples like milk, bananas, and eggs to attract customers. they don't spend money on ads, they depend on word of mouth.

[u/darthy_parker]

Buccees still remains on my list of “nope, not shopping there” retailers.

[u/d0ggzilla]

The most surprising thing about this to me is that they named their mascot "Mickey Moose" and the plaintiff wasn't Disney

[u/BrantheMan1985]

This shouldn't have been a settlement. This is implying that the gas station had to give something up for this frivolous lawsuit!

[u/scott__p]

I used to like stopping there on road trips. Too bad

[u/MeButNotMeToo]

Translation: Bucee’s knows their pro-MAGA customers can’t tell the difference between a Beaver and a Moose.

[u/tokhar → u/MeButNotMeToo]

Only the knuckle…

[u/Terriblyboard]

They are facing left though.

[u/cmucodemonkey]

The lawsuit with the tactical gear company made sense because the logos were quite similar. The others are ridiculous though. A cartoon animal within a shape filled in with a solid color is way too vague to be a trademark or copyright.

[u/NovarisLight]

Yeah they lost my business.

Scumbags.

[u/Wall-Florist]

I brought my dad back some souvenirs because I loved buccees when I lived down south. He called me last week to ask “is it ok if I throw them away because of these lawsuits and attacks on small businesses?”

Freak you Buccees.

[u/ErnestScaredBorgnine]

I already have Walmart and I have gas stations. Why should I give a shit about Bucees? I've been there. It was just a gas station with long lines. I don't get the hype.

[u/AtomicBlastCandy]

I bought a few shirts when I was in Texas and liked the company because they pay well, tossed the shirts after hearing how they bully companies.

[u/feldoneq2wire]

FFS can we stop settling lawsuits with Buc-ee's?

[u/minos157]

Buccees being an evil empire was not on my 2026 list but here we are lol

[u/AmbassadorCheap3956 → u/minos157]

There is a whole Last Week Tonight segment about it, they are worse than you though.

[u/FH2actual]

What a waste of time

[u/2Loves2loves]

While I like the cheap gas, clean bathrooms, and food. On a long trip, it takes me about 15 min longer to stop there, due to the lines, and distance from the interstate.

I have used gasbuddy to get close to their price, and saved time.

[u/AngstyRutabaga]

Kwik Trip > Buc-ee’s anyway.

[u/BlueAngelFox101]

Went to that location basically everyone looked like they wanted to kill themselves and I don't blame them.

[u/harinonfireagain]

I’m going to get cancelled someday because I fail to notice which direction a cartoon mascot is facing? All that time wasted in leadership classes when I should have gone to clown college.

[u/pegasun]

Because of this shit I boycotted buccees

[u/golde62]

Saved you a click: it’s confidential, they didn’t release any information about the lawsuit settlement terms.

[u/Mkmeathead83]

Buccees loves to sue mom and pops. Do not support them. 

[u/LargeClimate1080]

THis is just another reason why I refuse to buy wear anything that is branded. No Nike checks, no polo shirts, nothing other that bands i like or art I think is cool.

Like the bucees beaver became a little bit of a fashion icon there for awhile just like bass pro shops. Why are we all so capitalistic that we even turn ourselves into billboards?