Management of the Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery store that will be located at the intersection of Westover and Gillionville roads apparently has no qualms about cutting the city of Albany out of utility services for the 41,000-square-foot grocery store.

WG&L interim General Manager Tom Berry told the utility board at its meeting Thursday morning that Wal-Mart officials had tried to negotiate a cheaper electric rate with the city-run utility and told city officials it would instead get its electric power from Georgia Power when WG&L would not agree to the lower rate.

“We could have offered them any discounted rate we felt comfortable with, but we didn’t think that was fair to Publix and Harveys and all the other supermarkets in the city,” Berry said.

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