Only the states that let them bully small businesses into bankruptcy.
The intentional irony of my avatar while being on lemmy.ml is starting to become more obvious.
What’s your avatar ? (Voyager doesn’t show them)
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.
TN here - They don’t have garbage cans or squeegees / window cleaners. The crap they sell is overpriced swill. The bathrooms are very clean. Food is fair and overpriced. I’d rather go to a Loves any day.
Basically yeah. They’re impressive because they have big clean bathrooms and lots of gas pumps, that’s it. They have occasionally save my butt and having to buy a last-minute Christmas gift for my brother-in-law, but other than that everything is garbage. Expensive garbage.
Oh no! No giant gas station!? I’ll have to make do with my locally run book stores, restaurants, coffee shops, and farmers markets! How will I live?!
Chat is this real?
Bucee’s sucks shit, no doubt
But I’m weary of this liberal notion that red States have nothing to offer the world. What the hell does it mean to “have actual cultural attractions”? Do red States not have culture?
Does Louisana not have a culture? Does the Black Belt, throughout the South not have a distinct culture? Does New Mexico, or Texas not have significant Hispanic population that heavily influence their respective cultures? How about South Dakota’s heavy indigenous population? Or Oklahoma? How about Appalachia?
Whiteness in America is, admittedly, not unlike the Borg, wherein all cultural artifacts and language of the many white ethic groups which immigrated here, were assimilated. They gave up the lifeways of their homelands in exchange for a kind of security, and thus for their great grandchildren to be run over by a Ford F250 in a Bucee’s parking lot.
But that doesn’t mean these places are without rich, deep, and important cultures. The United States is a prisonhouse of nations. Oklahoma, alone, is where we shoved a significant portion of this continents indigenous people. The fact that they’re state government is lorded over by the most unhinged gringos America has to offer doesn’t make it a place worth ignoring or giving up on. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I took the comment more of an attack on how Bucees itself is paraded as a cultural attraction
New Mexico is not a red state
From Wikipedia:
40.3% voters registered as Democrat 31.2% voters registered as Republican
Democrat governor, Harris win the state in the last presidential election.
Also there is no Bucces in NM.
It’s not so much that -as a Connecticut Yankee that moved into the south. The south is a wonderful place rich with history, great wilderness, and a fairly decent people that still value hospitality. It’s also full of sparsely filled main streets and ghost towns with only 2 Dollar Generals and a host of mom and pop stores that have gone out of business. This person is trying to convey this difference and is an inarticulate asshat. I’ll tell you this - I can’t get good healthcare but I can get a smoked tenderloin biscuit at 6 places on the way to work that puts fast food to shame. It is also not very healthy. I no longer care.
Don’t ever group new Mexico and Texas. They may be close in proximity but are lightyears apart
Yeah the “south” and the “south west” are two different things. The “south” ends at Texas. Though Arizona does do some stupid shit.
“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.
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
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.
Business friendly just means lower corporate income tax I’m pretty sure.
Lower taxes, less regulation, less enforcement, maybe some union busting and general worker suppression.
I hear they pay pretty good. I don’t think they have a union problem.
It’s a menu to choose from. Not a list where everything has to be true for it to apply.
But how brain washed do you have to be to call 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.
I hate them for the same reason I hate Chick-Fil-A: they can’t fucking spell and their mascots bother me on a fundamental level. Every other awful thing is just confirmation that I’ve made the right decision.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
I would say they should go, the blue states then only gets ethical companies and we will see where people want to liveXD
Them words are gonna be real awkward when Texas turns blue this election…
As a Texan I can CONFIRM that I would rather MURDER my ENTIRE Family then to Vote for the person trying to LOWER my Taxes while GIVING me Healthcare!
Been told that’s happening “The very next election” since Obama
The more I read about Buc-ees, the more I hate them.
It’s my fault for thinking that buc-ees pay and benefits and seemingly positive attitude towards employment meant they werent shit fucks.
Bucees 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.
