Buc-ee’s is not coming to Gastonia, and a fake news story posted to a Gastonia Facebook group was a joke, according to the manager of the Eastridge Mall.
The false story was posted in the group Good News Gastonia on April 2 and attributed to The Gaston Gazette.
It claimed that unnamed “sources” indicated that Buc-ee’s, a popular convenience store, was in “preliminary talks” to acquire the Eastridge Mall…