Buc-ee's has trumpeted its 'world record' titles for years.
JERRY LARA/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSWhile the chain of colossal travel centers has for years touted that it is the largest convenience store in the world and hosts the longest car wash in the world, those titles are not recognized byKylie Galloway, a spokeswoman for Guinness World Records, told the Express-News that the buck-tooth behemoth’s Katy location no longer holds its 2017 title for“There is no current record holder for this title,” Galloway said.
The general counsel for Buc-ee's, Jeff Nalado, says the company started bragging about its size when it built its “ “To a certain extent, Buc-ee’s is a sort of ambassador to Texas, where people just say, ‘Oh yeah, they’re from Texas and everything is bigger in Texas,’” said Jeff Lenard, a spokesman for the National Association of Convenience Stores, a trade organization that represents about a third of the industry.
Gordon Spradley, of Houston, gasses up at Buc-ees, on IH-10 east of Luling, Texas, Tuesday, August 24, 2010.Like other convenience stores, Buc-ee’s had extended hours, a convenient location and a limited range of household goods and groceries. But that changed when Buc-ee’s opened its first travel center in Luling in 2003.The large store along Interstate 10, which has doubled its original size in recent years, resembled what most Buc-ee’s fans recognize today.
“They’re actually trying to turn the concept of convenience on its head,” said Venky Shankar, the Coleman chair professor of marketing and director of research at the center for retailing studies at Texas A&M. “Buc-ee’s is basically reinventing this idea of gas and convenience store. It’s a category on its own.”A breakdown of key state and local races and candidates in the May 24 primary runoff.“I don’t think size is driven by a desire for size,” said Nalado.
If a company can make the economics work, the larger the store, the greater the quantity of items it can sell and the cheaper it is to operate, Shankar said. While increasing the size of Buc-ee’s stores might not have an enormous economic advantage, it does give the company news value and bragging rights, he said.“It’s a slippery slope,” Shankar said. “You can be the largest convenience store until somebody else overtakes you with the next biggest store.
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