Wal-Mart's Sam's Club to shut stores after 'review'

Reuters ^ | January 11. 2018

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Sam’s Club, a unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc, closed a series of stores following a review, the membership-only store chain said in a tweet on Thursday.

The tweet came after a series of reports from local news outlets said some Sam's Club stores were closed abruptly on Thursday, with employees learning of the move as they arrived for work.

[T-Bird45]

I guess that WMT announcement about a minimum wage increase and bonuses for those with over 20 years won’t apply to those workers/locations.

[tired&retired]

Where?

[BipolarBob]

I didn’t see a list of the stores locations that were closed. pretty poor public relations on the part of Wal-mart/SAMS.

[MplsSteve]

Never shopped in a Sam’s Club before. Only Costco - and that’s because my wife wanted a membership there.

Does anyone out there like it? How does it compare to Costco?

[mrmeyer]

http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-suddenly-closes-sams-club-stores-2018-1

[DoodleDawg]

Where?

List is in this article.

[mothball]

All you have to do is go in a Sam’s one time, and that’s all you need to know. Costco is light years ahead on products and service.

[Bitman]

All over the US.about 60 clubs.
Guess they are trying to hide it by trumpeting their bonus payouts in the news.

[faithhopecharity]

I’ve n ver bern in a Sams. Have been hoping to get to one. Now hope to get to see one before it closes. Have friends near Sams Who like it and say it’s competitive with Costco, which they also like and patronize I’m betting Walmart knows how to run a pretty good Sams

[tired&retired]

Thanks for the link

I noticed that the majority of the store closings are in Democrat areas..

Here’s a list of closures rounded up from local media reports and Sam’s Club employees that contacted Business Insider. The list will be updated as we learn of additional locations.

8801 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK 99515
17835 Gale Ave, City of Industry, CA 91748
12540 Beach Blvd, Stanton, CA 90680
69 Pavilions Dr, Manchester, CT 06042
355 FL-436, Fern Park, FL 32730
5135 S Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33611
2994 Turner Hill Rd, Lithonia, GA 30038
501 N Randall Rd, Batavia, IL 60510
21430 S Cicero Ave, Matteson, IL 60443
900 S Barrington Rd, Streamwood, IL 60107
1055 McHenry Rd, Wheeling, IL 60090
808 S Illinois Rte 59, Naperville, IL 60540
460 S Weber Rd, Romeoville, IL 60446
3015 W 86th St, Indianapolis, IN 46268
10859 E Washington St, Indianapolis, IN 46229
4024 Elkhart Rd #1, Goshen, IN 46526
9598 Cortana Pl, Baton Rouge, LA 70815
9750 Reisterstown Rd, Owings Mills, MD 21117
81 International Dr S, Budd Lake, NJ 07828
2649 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse, NY 13224
720 Fairmount Ave, Jamestown, NY 14701
700 Elmridge Center Dr, Rochester, NY 14626
1600 Marketplace Dr, Rochester, NY 14623
4825 Marburg Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45209
9570 Fields Ertel Rd, Loveland, OH 45140
1805 Getwell Rd, Memphis, TN 38111
1615 S Loop W, Houston, TX 77054
13331 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77077
901 S Grady Way, Renton, WA 98057
1101 Outlet Collection Way, Auburn, WA 98001
13550 Aurora Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133

[logician2u]

That could be true.

However, I don't usually patronize places run by leftists in Seattle. (Even that well-regarded coop, REI, which bestowed on me a "lifetime membership" about 40 years ago.)

Sam's is the lesser of two evils.

[kaktuskid]

Sam’s is more business oriented than COSTCO, Sam’s takes all credit cards, COSTCO only takes VISA

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Thanks. FYI: if ever you see any Walmart / Sam’s Club closures in Arkansas, then you know the chain is in serious trouble.

[montag813]

Walmart really sucks balls. My sister went to her SC this morning to go to the pharmacy, was escorted there by a guard, and she said employees were “sobbing” inside the store because they had no idea the store was closing today. They couldn’t have sent a freakin’ email or text to workers last night, let alone the 2 weeks notice companies used to have?

[arkfreepdom]

Sams are great. Get lots of different stuff there. Not for everyone I guess.

[BlackAdderess]

The only one I know of on the list is in a questionable area.

[SFConservative]

Exactly my experience. The Sam’s we went into, when they offered a membership deal years ago, was dank, cramped and weirdly organized. But I must admit that the customers dressed “more creatively” than those at Costco!

[Sybeck1]

They closed one in Memphis. My employer was supposed to deliver a load of milk and just learned this

[HonorInPa]

A lot of the stores are in high tax states - CA, IL, NJ, NY - coincidence?