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Sam's Club-Reward Notice #102413257623


Hello lojban@lojban.org,

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This reward will-expire at the end of this week on Friday February 17th however, so please make sure that you do not miss-out.

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Sam’s Club operates in the shadow Wal-Mart Stores Inc., but if it were a stand-alone business, the warehouse club that posted $56.4 billion in revenue last year would be the eighth largest U.S. retailer. That’s more than the Gap, J.C. Penney and Kohl’s rang up cumulatively in 2012. Sam’s major warehouse club competitor, Costco posted $97 billion in sales last year and continues to lead the club retail category. Though it trails competitor Costco in total sales volume, Sam’ Club has 620 locations with a total of 82.65 million square feet of space with plans to add eight more clubs this year. Sam’s Club, which now employs more than 110,000 workers, recently celebrated 30 years as a division of Wal-Mart. Each club location averages more than $80 million in sales annually with a membership of 47 million and growing. Sam’s also is the third largest grocer in the country, with grocery and consumables accounting for 55% of the clubs’ $56.4 billion in net sales. BORROWED IDEA
Sol Price, founder of Price Club and FedMart, is considered the pioneer of the “warehouse store” retail model. He opened his first warehouse club in San Diego, Calif., in 1976. The warehouse club concept involved selling high volumes of a small variety of goods, at supposedly wholesale-level-low prices, to a select group of customers — who pay a membership fee in exchange for the right to shop there.

Legend has it that Sam Walton dined with Price in California and a few months later (April 1983) he opened the first Sam’s Club. A retail pioneer himself, Walton would never shy away from borrowing the ideas of others. “Sam considered borrowing good ideas a form of flattery. But he had one stipulation on borrowing: It was mandatory that we do it better,” said Tom Coughlin, a retail consultant and retired executive of Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart Stores. Coughlin said the early team who got Sam’s Club off the ground were mavericks and incredibly dedicated to this new concept, which was very different from the Wal-Mart model. He said the warehouse club segment quickly gathered steam throughout the mid 1980s. A protege of Price, Jim Sinegal, launched Costco in September 1983, five months after the first Sam’s Club debuted in Midwest City, Okla., and years later Sinegal bought out Price Club giving Costco more locations in densely populated coastal cities. Just as Costco absorbed Price Club, Sam’s swallowed up 80 Pace Clubs from K-Mart in 1994. Other retailers staked claims throughout the country such as Pace Clubs of Denver. B.J.’s began on the east coast and Club Wholesale got underway in Boise, Idaho. Sam’s Club focused on cities throughout the southern central U.S. in towns like Springdale, Lawton, Okla., and Tyler, Texas. GETTING SAM’S STARTED “I’ll always admire the four guys who got the first Sam’s unit up and running. They did it very quietly behind the scenes, with very little, or no, computer system support from the company, “ said Ron Loveless, Sam’s first president.

 

He said the merchandise mix, with multiple-item packaging and larger sizes, differed considerably from that of Wal-Mart, so the sourcing and distribution power behind the parent company wasn’t much help to those few on the front lines at Sam’s Club. Rob Voss led the merchandising effort, Dick Palmer was over operations while Mike Villines and Clyde Hulett assisted with merchandising and set-up. (This maverick group, though mostly retired today, remains in contact and recently gathered in Branson to celebrate the 30th birthday of Sam’s Club. The event was hosted by Voss, who was Walton’s choice as head merchandiser for the new venture in 1983. In that first year Sam’s lean crew worked to get the merchandise mix and operations off to a good start. They had to overcome obstacles such as leaking roofs and cracked concrete floors in the cheap-rent industrial building that was home to Sam’s Club No. 1 near Oklahoma City. Loveless said the profit margin for the first warehouse clubs were essentially the membership income as operating revenue from sales went to cover labor and cost of merchandise.

“The low priced goods would nearly sell themselves, our biggest challenge was figuring out the best way to market the memberships. Our gross margins were very low in hopes of pushing through more volume, but members were the key to profitability,” Loveless said. By the end of the first year, Walton had agreed to open two more clubs, one outside of Kansas City and one on Garland Road in Dallas. CLUB MERCHANDISING A typical Wal-Mart store has between 100,000 to 120,000 stock items, but Sam’s Club had under 5,000 items that could be sold in high volume.

Jim Branam joined Sam’s Club in August 1983 after he closed his apparel store in Rogers. Branam was responsible for the apparel, home goods and office supplies as senior merchant for Sam’s Club. One of the biggest challenges Branam faced was getting apparel suppliers to recognize that Sam’s Club was not Wal-Mart.

 

 

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