Sam’s Club is ramping up its expansion along with its investments in existing stores.
The Walmart-owned, membership warehouse club retailer plans to remodel all of its approximately 600 locations across the country as a “strategic growth investment,” Sam’s CEO Chris Nicholas said at Walmart’s annual investor day. Nicholas said the company is confident in the capital returns it will see in sales and membership income.
Sam’s Club also is accelerating its expansion plans. The company in January 2023 said it planned to open more than 30 new clubs across the United States during the next several years. But it now expects to build a pipeline to 15 new clubs every year after that for the foreseeable future, expanding its physical reach.
In October 2024, Sam’s Club opened a digital-first store format in Grapevine, Texas. The store, which will be the model both for remodels and new clubs going forward, has no traditional checkout counters or self-checkouts. Instead, customers use the retailer’s app-based Scan & Go tool, which allows them to use their mobile devices to scan items as they shop, complete payment and skip the checkout line entirely.
