LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- ABC World News with Charles Gibson has discovered Buc-ee's Ltd. The news program featured the chain of 30 convenience stores in Texas in a segment this week focusing on what made the locations famous—their bathrooms. Buc-ee's touts the cleanliness of its facilities from interstate billboards with slogans such as "Only 262 Miles to Buc-ee's. You Can Hold It." and "Restrooms So Clean We Leave Mints in the Urinals."

ABC News correspondent Ryan Owens spoke with Buc-ee's owner "Beaver" Alpin (thus, the name Buc-ee's and the rodent mascot). Alpin, he said, "follows a simple business model—it's all about the bathrooms."

PHOENIX -- The dual trends of recessionary spending and growing online communities are reshaping shopper spending habits and changing the game for convenience store operators, according to speakers at CSP's 2009 Consumer Insights Forum in Phoenix.

To start, numbers are showing that shoppers are easing up on their penny-pinching ways, according to Al Meyers of Retail Forward. He said that consumers post-recession will still be making "mindful" choices, opting to remain frugal in ways they find meaningful.

JERICHO, N.Y. -- After racking up 36 "top-notch" sites for $24.5 million from ExxonMobil in late September, c-store property owner Getty Realty is keeping the door open for additional acquisitions from Exxon and the other major oil companies.

"They intend to divest themselves of much of their retail operations or distributor operations," Getty Realty CEO Leo Liebowitz said, "and we are approached continuously and do have opportunities to make additional acquisitions."