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Cust-#126283139091 - You've just-earned $50-in Sam's Club-Points.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SamsClubBonus)
Mon Feb 27 14:40:48 2017
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:43:45 -0700
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<td colspan="2" id="First"><p>Hello mit-talk-mtg@charon.mit.edu,</p>
<p>Did you know that you have-unclaimed Sam's Club-Points available?</p>
<p>These-points are going to expire-by the end of this week if you have not-claimed them...Please go below here and let us know about your latest-Sam's Club shopping-experience by filling-out a brief-survey.</p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><a href="http://newbonus.seethenewclubrewards.com">Go Here to Get Your $50-Sam's Club-Points Now</a></span></p></td>
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<p>Sam's Club, the no-frills membership division of Walmart, has taken a step toward replicating Apple's (AAPL) futuristic shopping experience at its stores in one way: there's no need for a shopper to wait in line to checkout at a cash register. Sam's Club has recently gone live in all of its 645 U.S. stores with its new scan and go service, Walmart Vice President of Operations Transformation at Sam's Club Shawna Bowen told TheStreet. Scan and go works pretty much as it sounds. While a shopper is in a Sam's Club, they open an app and scan each item's barcode. If the item doesn't have a barcode, it could be easily looked up. The app keeps a running total of the items in the cart. A person can then checkout by paying in the app. They then show the receipt on the phone to an employee standing by the door, known as a greeter, who double checks that nothing has been lifted for free. The service closely resembles how a person checks out at an Apple retail store, with items being purchased getting scanned into handheld devices carried around by employees. </p>
<p>Sam's Club began to test scan and go last August at a location near its home base in Arkansas and in Concordia, Ca. It expanded the test to several more stores in February. Scan and go is also currently being tested in several Walmart locations. Bowen says there hasn't been a reduction in the number of cashiers or cash registers at Sam's Club, despite some early adopters of the app seemingly being turned into cashiers (that don't need to get paid or trained). </p></td>
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<td colspan="2" id="Bottom28"><p>Scan and go is the latest example of the world's largest operator of retail stores more fully embracing technology. Sam's Club recently debuted next-day delivery services for office supplies in Dallas, Miami and Tulsa, Okla. Walmart has a few different delivery models currently in motion. In Miami, Walmart is using Instacart rival Deliv to handle small order sizes and Need it Now to tackle larger orders, such as office equipment. Orders in Dallas are delivered by a Walmart truck driver. Meanwhile, Walmart added grocery pickup to 30 more U.S. markets during the second quarter. It's now available in more than 60 markets and almost 400 locations in the U.S. To use the service, customers place their grocery orders online, choose a time to pick them up and then pull into a designated parking spot when arriving at a Walmart store. From there, a Walmart worker brings the groceries to the person's car. Sam's Club, a big box shopping warehouse, has confirmed that it will add a store in the Nexton community near Summerville. The store will be the second in the tri-county area, according to Jennifer Howard, spokeswoman for WestRock, which oversees the 4,500-acre Nexton development.</p>
<p>Operated by Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, Sam's Club will sit on a parcel on Sigma Drive adjacent to Interstate 26 near the new interchange being developed just beyond the Summerville exit. The store's square footage and opening date have not been determined, she said. It could be 2018. The site is just down the street from a parcel purchased in August by Baker Motor Co. of West Ashley for a future automobile dealership Howard said there is no indication that Wal-Mart will follow with a supercenter near Sam's, like the side-by-side big-box stores near Tanger Outlets in North Charleston. Sam's Club will be the Summerville area's second warehouse store. Massachusetts-based BJ's Wholesale Club is building an 87,000-square-foot store at the juncture of I-26 and U.S. Highway 17A. It's set to open in June. Rival Costco is not sitting on the sidelines either. It's eyeing a 21-acre tract in the Carolina Park subdivision in northern Mount Pleasant. The wholesaler operates another store in West Ashley near I-526 and Savannah Highway. If all of the warehouse stores are built, the Charleston-area will have five club-member wholesale sites. It now has two: Costco and Sam's.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2" id="Lastly82"><p>My husband and I had a membership at Sam’s Club for years. But we dropped it two years ago because we didn’t think we were shopping at the warehouse club enough and benefiting from savings by buying in bulk to justify the $45 annual fee. A funny thing happened, though. I wrote an article for GOBankingRates earlier this year about secret ways to save money at Sam’s Club. In doing research for the piece, I learned that Sam’s had improved its merchandise and food items to compete better with Costco — which, unfortunately, doesn’t have a store where I live. I discovered that it was offering deeply discounted products through limited-time deals and auctions on its website. So I started wondering, “Did we make a mistake by dropping our membership? Should we give Sam’s another try?” You can probably guess what happened. We were lured back in. We decided to fork over $45 for a membership, thinking we’d get more out of it now that our kids are a little older and eating more, especially our 4-year-old son who is an eating machine. To see if our membership is actually saving us money, I did some comparison shopping — something I should’ve done before joining, but hindsight is 20/20. Be aware that I was not looking for the best and worst deals at Sam’s Club. Here’s what I found. I looked at prices on items I would buy at Sam’s then compared them with the prices at Walmart — which is one of the supermarkets where I shop and under the same corporate ownership as Sam’s Club. I did a per unit price comparison to figure out how much I would have to pay to get the same amount or size of an item at Walmart as is available at Sam’s, which sells things in larger quantities. I was skeptical that I was saving enough at Sam’s to justify the annual cost. So I was surprised by what I found after adding up prices on the same item at both stores, adjusting for size and amount. The winner: Sam’s Club by $87. The total for item’s purchased at Sam’s would be $410.93, and the total at Walmart would be $498.09. I know what you’re thinking: What in the world is she buying that costs so much?</p>
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