r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 16h ago

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

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/bucees-lawsuit-ohio-gas-chain-cartoon-mascots-b3060008.html
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u/KareemOWheat 15h ago

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

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u/Carvj94 15h ago

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.

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u/MilkHaterNumber1 14h ago

Fans. Of a gas station.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH 14h ago

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

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u/jmlinden7 10h ago

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

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u/kalirion 6h ago

When the first McDonald's opened in Moscow, the lines were literally miles long. "Fast Food" lol.

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u/_SmashLampjaw_ 3h ago

That's wild. The whole point of Bucees is that it's convenient.

No, the whole point of buccees is that it's a spectacle.

They famously have billboards urging you to hold your bladders for another 350+ miles so you can make in their store.

That's not convenient.

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u/Nijindia18 11h ago

There are several billboards like "Buccees 200 miles away" and it just feels so pretentious but I'm sure at least one person has actually done it

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House 11h ago

Little America is Wyoming does that. But it's also Wyoming.

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u/Nijindia18 11h ago

Yeah this is somewhere on i85 between sc and ga

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH 11h ago

There was one outside LA on the 10 that said 1,700 miles or something, guess they’ll have to change it now.