Originally Posted by guthmund

A friend of mine was going to expand his fast food franchise and open a second store on some land he was going to lease from Wal-Mart that they weren't going to use. The list of demands came pretty quick. (How highway access was going to be handled; What hours the joint could operate; where employee parking was to be situated, holiday decoration, Wal-Mart reserved the right to forcefully remove them from the premises if they couldn't adhere to these standards, etc....) The list of concessions were ridiculous, but this was the price of doing business with Wal-Mart. My friend chose not to. To be honest, it was one of the reasons I went to work with him while he set up shop.