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General => General Discussion & Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: RAD on January 11, 2018, 06:29:17 PM
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The one in my area isn't listed but I didn't see this coming.
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-suddenly-closes-sams-club-stores-2018-1
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Wow you ain’t kidding I would never thought this would happen
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One in Minnesota. They have under invested in the stores. Looking run down too me. Then again I'm a Costco guy
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I am not a big "club" store guy but this is surprising. A little chink in the armor for the Walmart empire..................
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We have a Sam's 15 minutes from the office....but last week I was in Greenville SC ( about 1 hour south down off the mountain ) and went into Costco.
I bought a membership because the variety of goods was better - and it felt like the merchandise in general was just a little nicer.
It is great to have choices.....
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We only have a Sam's in this area. Years ago there was talk about a new Costco but nothing ever came of it.
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Even though my wife has worked for Walmart for almost 20 years (my daughter works for them too), I was never a Sam's Club fan. Their pricing really wasn't any better than local grocers, so I never really saw the appeal.
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Somebody in PR needs to get fired. They have this huge announcement about raising the minimum wage for all employees and paying up to a 1,000 one-time bonus. Walmart is the largest private employer in the world. So it is a huge deal.
Then to have the Sam's club story on the same day. Just stupid
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Somebody in PR needs to get fired. They have this huge announcement about raising the minimum wage for all employees and paying up to a 1,000 one-time bonus. Walmart is the largest private employer in the world. So it is a huge deal.
Then to have the Sam's club story on the same day. Just stupid
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Exactly what I thought!
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Somebody in PR needs to get fired. They have this huge announcement about raising the minimum wage for all employees and paying up to a 1,000 one-time bonus. Walmart is the largest private employer in the world. So it is a huge deal.
Then to have the Sam's club story on the same day. Just stupid
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Agreed about the poor PR. This is beyond stupid. Wait until the politicians and the talking heads on radio/TV twist this around to fit a particular agenda.
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One in Minnesota. They have under invested in the stores. Looking run down too me. Then again I'm a Costco guy
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Costco here also!
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I go to Costco because the one in my area has a great choice of meat at decent prices.
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I hear costco has good frozen burgers
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The whole concept and business model of "big box retail" is changing. Amazon and Whole Foods along with a very tight labor market are forcing the folks in Bentonville to maneuver to a different niche. Interesting to watch.
Hub
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I hear costco has good frozen burgers
they do
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I sure hope they don't close our Sam's club. We do 70% of our grocery shopping there. It is only 8 minutes from our house.
We do another 20% at Walmart, which is only 7 minutes away. The balance of our grocery shopping is split between Kroger, Fresh Thyme, & the like.
Fresh Thyme is opening a second store in our town (was originally supposed to be a Whole Foods, but they wussied out ;D)
I personally like big box stores. I wish we had a Costco, but that probably will never happen.
We do sometimes drive to Indy to shop, usually hitting one of the Gordon Food Service stores, but can't see getting a Costco membership. (It's a 1 hour drive from home.)
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They closed one near us, but I still have 2 more in easy driving distance (1 still open is my "home" store) and there is one of the nicer ones right next to my office. The one that closed was in the area of what I would call a "declining mall" to put it politely.
They did close all of the WalMart Express stores though. All of those in GA were in smaller communities which lacked options in the first place. That sort of sucks for those who lived there.