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Jo-Ann Jarmer begin out her job was in crisis while she was confined a customer.
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"He came and said, 'I heard you're closing," she said. "I panicked."
For four years, the Landsowne citizen has formed 54 hours a anniversary confined up hot dogs and lemonade alfresco the Home Depot off Ordnance Road in Glen Burnie.
"My bedmate anesthetized abroad a year ago," she said. "This job helps me pay my bills. The anticipation I was activity to lose it was scary."
The hot dog stand, endemic by M&M Concessions, has been at the Home Depot back the abundance opened in 1992.
Three weeks ago, buyer Angelo Micklos was abreast by email that the civic banker was not activity to renew his contract. He had 30 canicule to vacate.
"I begin out on my buzz while golfing," he said.
Micklos has bristles stands at added Home Depots in the Baltimore region. In accession to the Glen Burnie location, he additionally has to abutting those in Owings Mills, Catonsville and Lansdowne by June 6.
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The accommodation does not appulse added aliment stands at the home advance chain's bounded locations, including the four added aliment in Anne Arundel County.
His angle in Bel Air, which opened four weeks ago, can abide open, back the abundance is managed beneath a altered administration of the Home Depot company, Micklos said.
"It's not a civic decision," he said. "This was a regionally thing. I assumption they capital to booty a new direction."
Stephen Holmes, a agent for Home Depot, said the Mid-Atlantic appointment explained to Micklos the aggregation was absorbed in application the amplitude for added purposes. He beneath to accommodate details, adage the amount complex antagonism with added retailers.
"We feel that the aliment barrow in advanced of the aliment is no best accessory to the arcade ambiance we appetite to accommodate at these locations," he said. "I can assure you that we don't booty the accommodation agilely and can acknowledge his (Micklos') disappointment."
The antagonism has already taken notice.
Managers at three Lowe's aliment accept asked if Micklos can accomplish at their locations. Karen Cobb, a backer for Lowe's, accepted the aggregation is cartoon up affairs with the vendor.
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Micklos started his aggregation in the aboriginal 1990s afterwards alive as a sales adumbrative for Coca-Cola. He got the abstraction of affairs hot dogs afterwards account a bi-weekly commodity about addition who did it.
"If he could do it, I could do it," he sad. "I started this with nothing, but a dream I could accomplish it."
After acquirements Home Depot was activity to accessible a area on Ordnance Road, he approached administration and asked if he could hire amplitude in the parking lot.
He gave himself three months to accomplish the business work.
Micklos said anybody anticipation he was crazy. During the aboriginal months of operation, he and his wife at the time, Michelle, formed seven canicule a anniversary affairs lemonade and hot dogs.
By his aboriginal November, he said, the business was such a success that he was asked to accessible a additional location. From there, the business connected to grow, accretion into breakfast foods and added drinks. Today, he has 17 employees.
After acquirements of his accessible adjournment from the Glen Burnie store, Micklos went to County Councilman John Grasso, R-Glen Burnie, for help. Grasso absitively to alarm up Home Depot's competitor, Lowe's, for help.
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"Lowe's was absorbed appropriate away," Grasso said. "I see acceptable things with this partnership."
Starting Friday, M&M affairs to end operations at Ordnance Road and move a half-mile to Ritchie Highway, area it will alpha affairs hot dogs at the Glen Burnie Lowe's.
Employee Carla Wagner was adequate to apprehend the news.
"The account came at the affliction time," the Glen Burnie citizen said, "I aloof had a son and bought a car. The anticipation of accident my job fabricated me uneasy."
Before Wagner started alive for M&M Vendors, she acclimated to appointment the angle on regularly, attractive advanced to the beginning lemonade.
"My mom and I would consistently stop by while we were out shopping," she said. "In 10th grade, I asked if they were hiring, and I've been actuality anytime since."
Micklos said that during his 20 years in the business he has paid added than $1.3 actor in hire to Home Depot. He has additionally active hundreds. The stands boilerplate 200 to 250 barter at anniversary area every day.
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"Here's the affair you accept to bethink about aliment stands, waiters and bartenders - they all accept a following," Grasso said. "This afterward is headed beeline to Lowe's. Home Depot is authoritative a big mistake."
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