re: Is Sams Club worth it?

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The fact that you can walk in, scan your items and walk out without being stopped makes it better.

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What is this witchery you speak of, heathen?

I filled up this past weekend @ Sam's in Lafayette for $3.589gal, is currently $4.199gal in my hometown. $0.61 is considerable for a 20gal purchase($12.20)...

Generally, gas can be between $0.10 to as much as $0.60 lower at both Sam's and Costco, so it you live close by it's worth it just for that, especially if you aren't WFH.

All the things previous mentioned, and their produce is significantly cheaper. 6 heads of Romaine lettuce for the same price as 3 in Wal-Mart. Apples, fresh and frozen broccoli, riced cauliflower, etc. if you have the freezer room, it’s definitely worth it.

Protein shakes, club $2 pizza slices and $9 full pizzas, cheaper wine (not cheaper than Total Wine), delicious cakes (sheet cakes and cookie cakes). Grab and go meals like the taco kit, chicken Alfredo, enchiladas. Chicken salad needs a little work- I add brown mustard, pickles and celery seed

This might be a coincidence, but I find more often than not that my cart averages out to $10/item.

ETA: my parents and brother have a card on our account, and the cash back pays for the renewal every year, plus $50-75.

Both Costco and Sam's have their pluses and minuses but costcos constant of scanning the membership card and checkout process is crazy in this day and age.

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Sam’s scan and go is so much more efficient.

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If sams were good enough to be packed like Costco, you wouldn't save time. You only save time because Sams is empty from being subpar and people with any sense know it.

Costco hasn't implemented their version of scanNgo because they've shown that from in to out the door, it doesn't save their shoppers time.

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What is this witchery you speak of, heathen?

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You have scan your card to get in, wait in line who knows how long to check out, then wait in another line to get your receipts and items checked before you can exit. You can do business with Costco but only cult members defend it.

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Costco hasn't implemented their version of scanNgo because they've shown that from in to out the door, it doesn't save their shoppers time.

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I don’t believe any of that. How could it possibly not save time to scan as you shop instead of waiting in line at the end? Only way I can see this being true is if you have a large portion of your customer base that can’t do it right and have to be stopped on the way out. I’ve only been stopped one or two times coming out of Sam’s for either forgetting to scan an item or still having an item scanned that I ended up putting back.

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I prefer Sam’s to Costco This is how you out yourself as low I.Q

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if he lives in South Louisiana, Sam’s & Costco are basically equivalent

The quality of their steaks beats all of our local grocery chains. Gasoline prices keep us happy especially on cross country trips.
But there are two additional things that haven't been mentioned enough:
Place your order from home, and then next day or day after drive in, and have it delivered to your car in a one hour period: never have to go into the store.
And then there's home delivery for a lot of items they don't have in store (like a really quality extra virgin olive oil, the thai coconut milk that i prefer for Thai curries, bulk canned cat food that they have trougle keeping in the store because the price is so much better than other grocery stores.

We live in the country and it's about twenty miles to town. Getting things delivered to our door (Prime Membership) saves at least two gallons of gas, and time it would take to wander through the store with a list in hand.