Buc-ee's: The Path to World Domination
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, if you’ve never been to a Buc-ee’s, it’s a good bet that you will soon enough. Beaver Aplin built his massive convenience chain into a Texas empire and his tactics are translating outside the state. Here to tell the story is Eric Benson, the man who wrote the definitive story for Texas Monthly about Buc-ee’s and its founder, Arch “Beaver” Aplin.
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