Walmart Adding New Liquor Store to Fairhope Location
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
April 1, 2026
FAIRHOPE, Ala. Another first for Fairhope now allows a big box store to sell liquor instead of just beer and wine.
No, this is not just another April Fool’s joke!
The Fairhope city council has voted to allow the Walmart Supercenter store on State Highway 181 and CR 48 to sell liquor and will issue them a liquor license.
One of the peculiar things that we noticed about the new ‘Liquor Box’ package store is that it could be destined to be placed right up front, possibly where the McDonald’s restaurant once stood or in another prime spot close to the front doors, making it easy for thieves to snatch and run.
This venture is only the second one in an Alabama Walmart store with the first one being in Tuscaloosa.
The timeline for opening the new addition has not been determined yet.
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