Customers exit the Buc-ee’s convenience store on June 12, 2024, in Luling, Texas.

Fans of the Texas gas station and convenience store chain Buc-ee’s love it for a lot of reasons. For starters, the chain’s selection of wall-to-wall snacks and its signature offerings like smoked brisket, Beaver Nuggets and sausage on a stick are road trip hits. Its toothy mascot, Bucky the Beaver, is beloved by adults and children alike, and merch that bears the beaver’s face is a subtle nod to ideas about Texas culture.

It also helps that every single location is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week — and many are absolutely massive. Its giant Luling, Texas, store covers more than 75,000 square feet, making it the........

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