La Plata Walmart

roadrunnermoore

roadrunnermoore

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Seriously LaPlata??? The town council would actually consider letting WalMart build another store 300 yards from the current one and abandon this property? How ridiculous!! Please everyone send comments to the LaPlata Town Council --
The La Plata Town Council will hold the record open until Sept. 14 on a proposed annexation of a 14-acr...e parcel on Rosewick Road that will contain an 180,000-square-foot Walmart that will be located in the La Plata Crossing complex. The annexation includes the rezoning of the parcel from Charles County's community commercial to the town's commercial highway zone. Send comments to dmandley@townoflaplata.org or La Plata Town Hall, Attention: Danielle Mandley, 305 Queen Anne St., La Plata, MD 20646. Call 301-934-8421.

Larger Walmart on different site proposed in La Plata
 
TurboK9

TurboK9

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roadrunnermoore said:
Seriously LaPlata??? The town council would actually consider letting WalMart build another store 300 yards from the current one and abandon this property? How ridiculous!! Please everyone send comments to the LaPlata Town Council --
The La Plata Town Council will hold the record open until Sept. 14 on a proposed annexation of a 14-acr...e parcel on Rosewick Road that will contain an 180,000-square-foot Walmart that will be located in the La Plata Crossing complex. The annexation includes the rezoning of the parcel from Charles County's community commercial to the town's commercial highway zone. Send comments to dmandley@townoflaplata.org or La Plata Town Hall, Attention: Danielle Mandley, 305 Queen Anne St., La Plata, MD 20646. Call 301-934-8421.

Larger Walmart on different site proposed in La Plata
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Will it create more (low income) jobs? I hear there are a bunch of people living in tents there that could use the work. :shrug:

Can I have the old building? I need a nice place to fly my little helicopters.
 
chernmax

chernmax

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What's the big deal, BAE Corporation (jobs) now uses the old Lowe's down here in California MD when Lowe's opened a bigger location across the street!
 
pelers

pelers

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chernmax said:
What's the big deal, BAE Corporation (jobs) now uses the old Lowe's down here in California MD when Lowe's opened a bigger location across the street!
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Yeah, but it doesn't seem like a lot of places are in the market for giant retail spaces. How long did Waldorf's Circuit City sit vacant?
 
StadEMS3

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I heard rumor from a Waldorf Walmart employee that the Waldorf store was going to turn in to Walmart warehouse and a new Super Walmart will be built down on 228 toward 210?

It's amazing how fast the DC/PG sprawl is moving south...
 
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slowlane

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It's just ridiculous. LaPlata, with only 15,000 residents, can hardly support the THREE supermarkets it already has (Everyone says the newest one, 'Giant' seems to be struggling). Now 'Target' is starting to add a grocery department, and then WalMart will have one. That will make FIVE groceries in town. All five will have to financially bear the same level of overhead costs that they now have (staff wages, electricity, heating, A/C, advertising, and property taxes), but all 5 groceries will have to compete for the same customer base (although granted the local population will have grown a little by then), giving each one a smaller market share than it enjoys now.

After Super Walmart opens, I predict that 'Giant' will have to close. Then that will leave TWO empty big-box buildings within one mile.
 
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vince77

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slowlane said:
It's just ridiculous. LaPlata, with only 15,000 residents, can hardly support the THREE supermarkets it already has (Everyone says the newest one, 'Giant' seems to be struggling). Now 'Target' is starting to add a grocery department, and then WalMart will have one. That will make FIVE groceries in town. All five will have to financially bear the same level of overhead costs that they now have (staff wages, electricity, heating, A/C, advertising, and property taxes), but all 5 groceries will have to compete for the same customer base (although granted the local population will have grown a little by then), giving each one a smaller market share than it enjoys now.

After Super Walmart opens, I predict that 'Giant' will have to close. Then that will leave TWO empty big-box buildings within one mile.
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Was in the Target today..the "food" portion is a little bigger than a 7/11, certainly not a food store. I would agree the Giant isn't busy, but I don't think they or Safeway will be that effected by a Super Walmart. Different clientele. I do believe Food Lion will be effected,... same clientele as WalMart.
 
acommondisaster

acommondisaster

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vince77 said:
Was in the Target today..the "food" portion is a little bigger than a 7/11, certainly not a food store. I would agree the Giant isn't busy, but I don't think they or Safeway will be that effected by a Super Walmart. Different clientele. I do believe Food Lion will be effected,... same clientele as WalMart.
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The new food section is open?

The Giant is nice, and generally empty. Personally, it's too dang big and cold for me.
 
lovinmaryland

lovinmaryland

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slowlane said:
It's just ridiculous. LaPlata, with only 15,000 residents, can hardly support the THREE supermarkets it already has (Everyone says the newest one, 'Giant' seems to be struggling). Now 'Target' is starting to add a grocery department, and then WalMart will have one. That will make FIVE groceries in town. All five will have to financially bear the same level of overhead costs that they now have (staff wages, electricity, heating, A/C, advertising, and property taxes), but all 5 groceries will have to compete for the same customer base (although granted the local population will have grown a little by then), giving each one a smaller market share than it enjoys now.

After Super Walmart opens, I predict that 'Giant' will have to close. Then that will leave TWO empty big-box buildings within one mile.
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Really :confused:

I live in Leonardtown and I actually make a special trip a few times a month to shop at both the Safeway and Giant in La Plata because they are so nice. Safeway is ALWAYS packed no matter what day or time I go.
 
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OldHillcrestGuy

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slowlane said:
It's just ridiculous. LaPlata, with only 15,000 residents, can hardly support the THREE supermarkets it already has (Everyone says the newest one, 'Giant' seems to be struggling). Now 'Target' is starting to add a grocery department, and then WalMart will have one. That will make FIVE groceries in town. All five will have to financially bear the same level of overhead costs that they now have (staff wages, electricity, heating, A/C, advertising, and property taxes), but all 5 groceries will have to compete for the same customer base (although granted the local population will have grown a little by then), giving each one a smaller market share than it enjoys now.

After Super Walmart opens, I predict that 'Giant' will have to close. Then that will leave TWO empty big-box buildings within one mile.
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Dont know what the population of LaPlata is, but I'd much rather shop the LaPlata stores then go to the Waldorf locations. Im in Charlotte Hall, those stores draw people other then LaPlata residents. Maybe the old Walmart could become a Sams Club since they having the same owner.
 
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