Isn’t Buc-ees the company that’s suing small businesses over cartoon logos they’ve had since before Buc-ees existed?
I’ll never step foot in one.
Yeah, and they’ve gotten themselves into a beef with Beavercreek OH over it.
Personally, I’m glad they won’t be coming to my state
“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.
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.
Super shitty education system so you have a large pool of cheap labor
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 phrasing. 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.
What’s “a union problem”?
I read “union problem” as “a problem that can be fixed with a union” such as low pay. But yeah, just because your company isn’t currently choosing to exploit its workers doesn’t mean they won’t choose to later - the trick is to prevent them from having the choice in the first place.
A union doesn’t have to be an antagonistic force, exclusively beating exploitative companies into submission - it can just be the voice of the workers to speak on equal terms with an attentive employer, working together to grow the business for the benefit of everyone, instead of just those in the executive suite.
Or having the government pay for improvements that the business owners would normally have to do.
Indeed, the location in DeForest, Wisconsin is “on hold” because the village can’t afford the $17 million highway interchange for it. (No chance of the company helping fund it, nosiree, that’s communism or something.)
"Business friendly“ means friendly to “my” business. It always has. One company’s business friendly is another person’s business hostile.
I’d say it just means socially worse for those folks, because a bad social net clearly corresponds 1:1 with corporate friendliness.
And fewer worker’s rights.
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.
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
We’re talking about people who have never done something interesting in their entire lives. They never make anything, so spending money is their only source of fulfillment.
They’re NPC’s and pedophile protectors
currently they are suing a small chain, that has the beaver as a logo.
the ceo thinks blue areas need the stupid gas station chain in thier state, good riddance if they leave.
I remember when Buc-ees came to my state and everyone went “Hell, yeah, I’ll work at a gas station for $22/hr!” Pretty soon, word got around that you’re not even supposed to sit on your breaks. The people enthusiastically screaming “Fresh brisket on the board!!” Rapidly gave way to a tone that said “I am contractually obligated to say ‘Fresh brisket on the board’ at an at least mildly elevated volume.”
Still, I’m surprised by this story. The pay made a hell of a first impression, and the sitting thing made me think some kind of weird religious kink, but overtly political messaging was not something I expected. I’m just so used to “Fuckin’ burger-flippers want $15 an hour, you b’lieve ‘at?!” that Republicans never crossed my mind.
Lol, these companies are so lost.
More small businesses is great!
Bucees is actually suing a bunch of small businesses for using any logo with a beaver right now. It’s super fucked up. Fuck them.
Bucees is actually suing a bunch of small businesses for using any logo with a
beavercartoon right now.More then just a beaver. Any animal they think looks similar.
Because we all know moose look so much like beavers…
Doesn’t the Hoover Dam use a beaver in some of its older stuff? Legit would love to see how badly they’d get dragged through the mud because the Hoover Dam gift shop has some of those retro style reprints sitting around.
Also fun fact the Colorado does in fact have a beaver population.
Any logo with a cartoon animal
Canada been real quiet since those suit done
So small businesses in blue states with beavers as part of their logo won’t have to worry about getting sued? Sounds good to me.
Only the states that let them bully small businesses into bankruptcy.
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.
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
maybe appeals to truckers, because they often lean conservative, and bucc-ees predominately is in the south more?
They’re explicitly anti tractor trailer. They have signs plastered all over the entrance. They’ll accept anything else though. I’ve even seen a few campers at one.
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
Wawa put in a gas station near Orlando international airport because their CEO was visiting and got pissed off by the price gouging gas stations nearby, last time I was there the Wawa was still charging reasonable prices and at least one of the other gas stations was still way overpriced (although that might be the gas station in Orlando that doesn’t want to be a gas station, they just want to be a convenience store but zoning forces them to keep gas pumps so they price the gas at obscene rates to try to keep people from buying it).
I’m thinking of the gas station near Outback stake house near the airport. They are crazy with thier prices.
Okay, I just looked it up, that one is just price gouging the tourists with rental cars. The one that doesn’t want to sell gas, at least according to local rumors, is the one on Vineland, I definitely recall it from going to the outlet mall but I don’t completely remember where on Vineland it is.
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.
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 crowds of people shoving through each other for meh-quality fresh food.
America is such a shithole that clean bathrooms at a gas station are a selling point.
You’ll have a hard time finding dirty bathrooms in gas stations in the EU.
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?!
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.
Instead there are Alsups, which have the best convinence store chimichangas and breakfast burritos available anywhere.
The fried burrito with that alsups sauce just hits right
Y’all got convenience store chimichangas‽
Don’t you fucking lump New Mexico in with Texas. New Mexico may be a big square state but it is a blue state that is holding the line. It is the first state to have universal child care, was a fairly early adopter of LGBT rights, is a reproductive healthcare sanctuary, has a wide variety of interesting cultural traditions and events, and has better chile than anywhere else.
Don’t ever group new Mexico and Texas. They may be close in proximity but are lightyears apart
I grouped them insofar as we stole them from Mexico ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Yeah the “south” and the “south west” are two different things. The “south” ends at Texas. Though Arizona does do some stupid shit.
Texas is difficult. It is its own thing in many ways, and fiercely so. But it’s also large. El Paso is definitely southwestern. Beaumont is definitely Southern. DFW would identify as Texas first, definitely not Southern and definitely not Southwestern.
Part of the Confederacy, part of The South. Fuck em.
You raise a great point. The culture is there and blue states don’t inherently have a greater inventory, per se. In response to the OP, would it be fair to say blue states celebrate and display that culture versus red states?
I would say yes? But it’s a hesitant yes. For example, New York City is in a blue state, and is very proud of showing off its diverse cultural fabric.
But even in the bluest of states, the problems of colonialism and the United State’s fraught [understatement of the millennia] relationships with the indigenous peoples of this continent still persist.
Yeah, I’m sad that as a queer person I feel unsafe visiting the deep south because I’d love to see more of the country, especially those areas you discuss. When I lived in Kentucky I developed a complex relationship with Appalachia that includes some love for it.
Fundamentally, I also just think it’s tactically foolish to say that we don’t want the cultures of red states to join us on the left. We don’t dislike these places for the things worth loving about them like their food, their general ways of doing things, etc. We would gladly stand side by side with an inclusive, labor protecting Mississippi. Even Texas which is as annoying as California would be welcome in a blue coalition without having to give up its Texaseyness
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.
republicans and culture dont mix, they would rather wage war on culture.
That’s not true, they have a strong Epstein culture.
Buc-ee’s ain’t nothing but a tacky 30 year too late knock-off of Sheetz but with worse ownership.
It’s my fault for thinking that buc-ees pay and benefits and seemingly positive attitude towards employment meant they werent shit fucks.
The owner is a pretty big Greg Abbott supporter and has been for many years
They only operate in states with like zero employee protection laws
Well I guess I’m boycotting that business too except to use the restroom because let’s face it, they’re cleaner than most any other business.
Wear your politics on your sleeve and I’ll vote with my wallet.
"I just need some shit I could get at 7eleven, but I really want the inconvenience of an old fashioned trip to the mall. I know… Sheetz! Or Bucees! Or Pilot! Or FlyingJ!
Hey, sheetz has good gas prices and seems to pay their employees well.
MTO is way better than fast food at about the same price point, as well
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.
