That’s what I thought. So, for someone without nostalgia, Stuckey’s are basically a convenience store where you can easily stop for bathroom breaks — for both you and your dog — while you ...

Stuckey’s, the Georgia-based convenience store chain once widely known by road-tripping families, is adding another owner to join a granddaughter of the chain’s founder. The move is expected ...

The Stuckey's convenience store chain was not born in Texas, but it got here as fast as it could. The stores became famous for kitschy souvenirs (think alligator figurines and rattlesnake eggs ...

A 1995 article in the Society for Commercial Archeology Journal calls Stuckey’s “the forerunner of the modern convenience store.” In the first years of the interstates, it was often the lone ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Although Stuckey's got its start when founder W.S. Stuckey began selling pecans and candies on Georgia roadsides during the Great Depression, most convenience store operators ...

Her grandfather, W.S. Stuckey Sr. opened his first Georgia pecan stand in 1937. As the Eastman-based company grew, the convenience stores became synonymous with their famous pecan log rolls.

Stuckey quickly set a new course, focusing on pecan treats and the nostalgic power of her family name rather than on building new brick-and-mortar convenience stores. She revved up online candy ...

Now she owns Stuckey’s Corporation, including a pecan and candy factory in Wrens, Georgia, that employs 120 people. And she has ambitious designs to bring back the stores that her grandfather ...

R.G. Lamar is president of Stuckey’s Corp., a convenience store chain. Lamar is also a third-generation pecan farmer whom we met a few years ago on a reporting trip to Georgia. Lamar spoke to ...

Stuckey’s rode the good times for the better part of 30 years. At its height the chain owned 368 stores in 40 states, most of them clustered in the South. “For a while in the 1960s ...

Stephanie Stuckey bounds up the driveway of Houston’s Beer Can House in red sneakers, white jeans and a souvenir-stand T-shirt. She whips an iPhone from her back pocket and starts recording a ...