Who does Wal-Mart think they are keeping someone from opening a restaurant in the old Golden Coral building? Because they are going to serve alcohol. In the mid-west Wal-Mart sells liquor and liquors, this one and all of the ones around here sell beer and wine, the restaurant is not a threat to their business, so I have to believe that this is just a power trip on the part of Wal-Mart. I am going to be calling the local Wal-Mart Manger and voicing my opinion. Maybe if enough people do this and show support for a new local business they will have a change of heart. I think that we should do everything we can to try and help this business out

Wal-Mart Super Center
4 Charles Town Plz
Charles Town, WV 25414-3954
Phone: (304) 728-2720

Source?

Indeed. With no more info. than this I'm not calling anyone.

This was on TV25 news last night.
Wal- Mart doesnot want the resturant near them.

it came from the channle 25 news at 11:00pm lastnight

I'd like to hear both sides of the story before commenting. Wal-Mart is too often vilified just because they are Wal-Mart.

Here's the story. This story only seems to give one side, and not Wal-Mart's side of the story.

Corporate Wal-Mart did not return our calls for comment.
All Wal-Mart would need to to is give thier side of it , i buy just about everything at Wal-Mart but this is just wrong

So what, you would think John Laramie would have checked this stuff out before he got started.
I'm sure Kimco Realty would rather have the rent from Wal-mart than from a little restaurant so I doubt they will do anything.

Did you ask the local manager of Wal-Mart?

What about any correspondence from Wal-Mart on the matter?

Seems a good reporter could get more info than that article had.

I just don't understand how they can inforce an alcohol restriction when they themselves sell alcohol

Maybe that's what it means a restriction for the rest of the shopping center. That way there is no competition for Wal-Mart.

If the alcohol business is the reason and all this is true, it just doesn't seem right. It's not like customers are going to buy a six pack and a box of frozen hot wings from Wal Mart and sit there and eat them. Just like we can't go and buy a six pack from a restaurant. Totally different businesses we're talking about, no competition issue here! What's the deal???

Ok then maybe they don't want the drunks from the restaurant hanging around their store.
The point is Kimco Realty and Wal-Mart signed the lease with the restrictions now Wal-Mart wants the lease adhered to and their the bad guys.

IMO that's a bunch of BS

I just think the fact that Wal-Mart sells alcohol should void that part of thier lease , and on a sarcstic note i know when i go drinking i just love going to Wal-Mart and camping out there it is everything a man could want in a friday night

The bottom line is, they don't have to give a reason. It is in the lease, and Wal-Mart wants to exercise this option. It is all quite legal and enforceable. The restaurant can go elsewhere and set-up. If you don't like it, that's okay, and you have the option of not patronizing Wal-Mart, complaining to their BOD, writing letters to the editor, etc. but I see no reason to think it is not legit/legal action on their part.

Gah! Not to hijack but...

I was walking out of Wal Mart in M'burg last night. I walk fast so I zipped around this lady and her kid. Really loud, the mom goes, "JESUS CHRIST I'M GOING TO HAVE TO WALK ALL THE WAY OUT THERE TO THE F'ING CAR!?" As I continued to walk further away I could still her cursing and her daughter was right there.

I wanted to grab her by the throat and call her a loser and then scoop her poor child away.

bottom line wal-mart doesn't want a drunk wing eater driver to hit a fat women
yellin' and beatin' her kid in the wal-mart parkin' lot...

That's exactly it Wal-mart sells alcohol for their customers to take home and consume at home. The restaurant's customers will be imbibing and then driving immediately afterwards, endangering everyone in their path, which includes Wal-mart's customers. If the lease says no alcohol, then no alcohol, period.

Right!

Well it is West-by-God-Virginy

Wal Mart is my favorite place to yell & cuss around my kids...whether it's MD or WV!

So essentially you're saying that any restaurant serving alcohol shouldn't be in the immediate vicinity of any store, or other public place, where customers might be walking/driving. Should all restaurants serving alcohol be rounded up and moved to a certain section of town? Or maybe they should all go within that city wall you spoke of?

You have a problem with West Virginia now, bub?

Of course not, we need a safe place for all you .............uhm...........uh............nice people.

Cute.

Aw shucks

You peaking?

I guess you haven't seen how people drive thru the Walmart parking lot now...

also...

whoever said walmart is the local hangout on friday night...have u seen the quality of women that go into the charles town walmart? I rest my case..

Not at all. I am however saying that patrons leaving restaurants after consuming alcohol do pose a definite, if small, risk to the rest of us. Not enough that I think that you addicted scum would ever allow a law to be passed keeping you from your drug of choice.

If Wal-Mart has a lease that says the restaurant isn't supposed to serve alcohol, then I can understand their desire to enforce it. I'm not saying we should pass a LAW banning all alcohol sales at restaurants, but I AM saying that property owners have a right to set whatever limits they want on their tenants as long as they don;t offend a protected minority, and drunks (excuse me - "people who choose to consume alcoholic beverages") aren't a protected minority.

it's not the property owners that put the clause in there. It was Walmart, the tennant that added the clause. I have a feeling that there might be a parking issue if someone new were to move into that building.

Walmart doesn't want parking spaces taken up by a new restaurant/bar that would definately attract a large loyal diner base. So they point out that their lease has a "we dont want our customers to have to compete for parking spaces" clause and it's done and done.

The least they could do is tear down the structure and make more parking spaces out of it...



I personally think the building looks like poo-poo. It's a total eyesore. Golden Corral didn't even bother to take down the last message on the marquee.

I can't see why you would think it was a parking issue, it is not like anyone is parking in the spaces around the old Golden Coral building and walking to Wal-Mart. Another question I have is why would the property owner agree to lease the building to the gentleman wanting to open his business? They knew of the clause in there lease agreement with Wal-Mart. i know it is in their lease but with them (Wal-Mart) selling alcohol i think it should void that part of their lease. I have also emailed NBC25 to see if they are going to do a follow up on the story, in hopes that they will

HUH? Have you even read this lease that you are accusing Wal-Mart of violating and that you therefore say has been voided?

Whether you are capable of grasping the concept or not, there is a difference between selling acohol for consumption ON the premises versus OFF the premises. In my opinion, Wal-Mart's selling alcohol for people to take home with them has no bearing whatsoever on the issue at hand.

Whatever legal obligations are etablished in the lease, all parties thereto are bound by them, period. All of our silly talk about anything outside what's in that contract in black and white amounts to nothing.

i didn't say it has been voided , read what i say before you try to slam me , i said it should void out that part of their lease , and no i haven't read the lease do you know how i could get a copy of it i would love to see what else it gives them control over

Why? Just because you say so? The provisions of the lease ought to be clearly written. Usually such things are written so that violation of any one part does not render the other part unenforceable, so unless they have a poorly-written lease, what YOU say should be should in fact, not. In any event, whatever the lease says is what goes... it's not subject to your (or my, or anyone else's) half-baked opinions, it's clear and simple legal language.

I just don't think it is rite for Wal-Mart to determine what business can open where , and isn't this the place for me to voice my half-baked opinions ?

It's not personal, B1t3me. He speaks to everyone that way.

i was starting to think i owed him money or maybe did his sister wrong or something, ever since i came to ths forum he has been slamming everything i post

Charming, isn't he?

Oh, yeah . just the thought of him replying to me makes my palms sweat and my heart race



Edited by Heather...Whoa there! You made it look like I said that! Fixed quote brackets for you.

B slams everything you post? I am astonished! I can't imagine that.

That means he likes you

I think the first time I posted on here he remarked "duh" to my comment! I felt so warm and fuzzy inside

I feel so honored , i think he just hates me , but he's got company i ought to hook him up with my ex so they could hate me together

ok this got way off topic , i still say Wal-mart is in the wrong but then that is just my half-baked opinion

Oh y'all can just go stick it where the sun don;t shine. I mean, really. I am so tired of the "let's all gang up on BMIC" tripe. No wonder I don't treat many of you with much respect - it's mutual.

My point is this whole thing is governed by the language of the lease. If Wal-Mart got their landlord to sign a lease that gives Wal-Mart the power to tell everyone else in the shopping center what to do, then I say more power to 'em! Regardless, none of our opinions either way matter for anything. The lease says whatever it says and is a legal contrract and therefore ought to be obeyed. That's just the way it is.

The whole notion that any of your opinions should matter when it comes to a matter of enforcing a legally-binding contract is just plain stupid.

And of course your opinion is the only rite one , let me bow down before almighty, I hope i spelled everything rite

Your humble obeisance is duly noted. I will spare you further ridicule for the rest of today.

So let it be written. So let it be done.

OK I THINK WERE BEATING A DEAD HORSE HERE , AND BESIDES BMIC IS RITE AND NOW WE ALL KNOW THIS

Hmmm . . . Someting tells me biteme is obsessed with having the last word... now let's see if he posts another useless message just to prove my point.

i'm not obsessed with having the last word but i couldn't let the almighty BMIC be wrong i just wouldn't be able to live with my self . i would be scared the world would come to an end , whatever would we do

Point proven, thank you very much.