Buc-ee’s convenience store sits outside Athens, Alabama, like a giant squatting beaver.
This Texas-based gas station place is not a mere gas station. Buc-ee’s is a dwarf planet. You’re looking at Six Flags Over Circle K.
And the place is packed today.
“We’re packed every day,” says an older employee wearing a cowboy hat. “Every day is like a Who concert in here.”
If you go to Buc-ee’s, be prepared to wait in a line of traffic. There are 120 gas pumps jammed full of SUVs, compact cars and oversized trucks. They come from all over. The license plates read Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont and Alaska.
Walking into the store is like going into an Alan Jackson concert, only less organized. We’re talking 53,470 square feet of commercial retail space. You see people from all walks. Rich and poor. Old and young. Yoga pants and partial nudity.
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Buc-ee’s features a Texas-style barbecue pit with line cooks wearing cattleman hats. The brisket is good. The employees call you Sugar, which is sweet, but also weird inasmuch as some of the employees are old enough to be your great-grandchildren.
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