Why gas stations are at war

There's a war going on. A delicious war.

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[LakeLyfe]

I've been a truck driver for over 20 yrs. I can say with the utmost confidence that the food from these convenience stores all suck. Go to a local diner instead

[admiralcapn]

I feel like Buc-ee's almost deserves its own video. "Massive canopies with SIXTEEN pumps..." Buc-ee's laughs in triple digits.

[C_M_R]

Kum & Go not mentioned due to threat of demonetization. 😂

[DasGreenCow]

1:07 As a Florida resident, the wawa invasion happened in about a year. There were no wawas, next year they were everywhere, with free air for tires and undercutting the local circle k and 7Eleven gas prices by as much as .10 a gallon.

[FirstDagger]

I think I am too European to understand this video.

[RBzee]

The milk man in the first picture definitely stole that guy's wife 😂

[BenjamintheTortoise]

So interesting. My dad owned a Chevron service station from the 40s to the 90s, so he saw all the trends. I always loved hearing his stories. He didn't make much on gas, so he focused on selling tires where he could. It wasn't until the 90s when he finally got electric gas pumps and a compurtized cash register, and started selling CPGs. When he sold the station in 2000, the new owners closed the 2 service bays and made the whole thing a mini mart because that's where the money is...

[TylerMcHenry]

Having grown up around Philadelphia, it always seems weird to hear people describe Wawa as a gas station. To me, they were always a convenience store first and foremost, and some locations also happened to have gas.

[Rextraordinaire]

I maintain that Casey's is not a gas station & convenience store that serves pizza, it's a pizza chain that just also sells gas, snacks, alcohol, etc. on the side

[drewe]

Just days ago, i started having conversations about how gas stations don't make their money on gas, and more and more people are treating them as a legitimate grocery store.

The culmination of my questioning is, that people clearly want a bodega style place across the country. Why can't we have more corner grocery stores in neighbourhoods and serve people in a more walkable way?

The crux that was brought up was Dollar General.

[JscoLP]

As a Canadian who hasn’t been to any of them… I’ve always wanted to go to Buc-ee’s

[fordsmith]

People from upstate New York have an undying loyalty to Stewart’s ice cream/convenience shops. Whatever they’re doing, they’re doing it right.

[jayh]

The rural Iowa town I grew up in had a curbside pump until summer 2020, when it was unfortunately damaged beyond repair by a derecho. The way it worked was each house had a key to use on an attached panel. The local gas company would mail you a bill at the end of the month for whatever you pumped. It was such a loss but a cool relic from the past.

[duckdodgers]

I use to tour a lot as a professional juggler, and my favorite gas stops were always those quirky ones that weren't part of a chain and often had random things like antique stores attached.

[jacklussier]

I work in hazardous waste cleanup and removal.
I promise there is absolutely NO ‘stapling’ a gas station in, at least in any state that cares about their drinking water. The installation, maintenance and replacement will be an astronomical cost.
This coming from a Massachusetts resident, so we obviously have severe environmental precautions. But just the process that allows you to pump gas/diesel from that nozzle is an underground maze of pumps, lines, and 2-10, 8-25k gal tanks. If you go to work early enough or get home late enough, and stop to fill up, you’ll see tankers dropping fuel 2-3 times a week even at the smallest places.
Deserves a whole documentary by itself.

[mageover]

Buc-cees isn't a gas station it's an amusement park.

[stogieguy]

Why this works so well: yesterday on my way from work, I know we needed some milk and one or two other basic things. I also had less than 1/2 tank of gas. Made a plan to stop at Kwik Trip on the way home (different exit) and got those items + a cold drink in probably 5-6 minutes. Multiply this by millions and you’ve got a nice industry.

[BrewBTS]

Now I regret not submitting my video! I mentioned that, growing up, Wawa wasn't even a gas station. It was where we got our lunch meats and sandwich bread (hoagie rolls). A charter school I attended as a kid even got its cafeteria cartoned milk and juices from Wawa! I still go to Wawa for ice and milk multiple times a week.

What's apparently surprising is that I think Sheetz is really cool! Every time I'm on a road trip through Sheetz-country, I make sure I stop at one along the way.

Still, there's no place like home. I'll always prefer Wawa!

[jack.h]

As a midwesterner it goes like this: Casey's is for pizza always and Kwik Trip/Kwik Star for everything else. Also QT is the impostor Kwik Trip don't trust anyone who goes in there.

[chrisronin]

1:54 quick trip? or kwik trip? these are very important distinctions! phil’s fanning the flames of the turf war over here!