Sam’s Club is better. Look in your area for one.
Sam’s Club is better. Look in your area for one.
If you’ve never been to Costco or Sams, and just walk into both, you will be hard pressed to tell the difference. But as you peruse the products, the more you dig, the more apparent the differences are. For me, Costco is Buic and Sams is Chevy, and I’m a member of both and shop both regularly.
However, my nearest costco is almost two hours away. WE go there every two or three months. I drive by a Sam’s club every day on my way to work. If it was reversed, I would not even bother with a Sam’s club membership, but it’s handy for the kind of purchases we make at that kind of store.
Not only does Costco’s selection seem to fit my lifestyle and product needs better, but even when they sell the exact same product, it’s not exactly the same. Case in point: We bought a vacuum cleaner at Costco for $105 a few years ago. Then we went into Sams club and saw the exact same product for $89. We thought Sam’s had beat Costco.
Then we looked at the vacuum cleaner. It didn’t have the attachments the Costco one did and it had a cheap black plastic accordian hose while the Costco one had a nice soft rubbery, semi-transparent hose with coiled wire bracing.
We’ve come across a lot of that. Sam’s is too close to their Wal-Mart roots. Which may be why Sam’s is THE PLACE to go for heavily processed junk food. It’ll make your eyes water.