Growth
Sam's Club against its category
The biggest tracked US warehouse club chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Sam's Club's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costco | +0.6% |
| 2 | Sam's Club | -0.4% |
| 3 | BJ's Wholesale Club | -2.6% |
| 4 | costco.com | - |
| 5 | Taj Wholesale 2 | - |
| 6 | Cash & Carry | -29.4% |
| 7 | Martinez Distributors | +0.4% |
| 8 | Costco Business Center | +11.3% |
| 9 | Tropic Supply | - |
| 10 | Sams Beauty Warehouse | -0.5% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
686 tracked Sam's Club locations across 46 US states and 1 territory. Texas, Florida, and California hold 28% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 103
- Florida 51
- California 36
- Ohio 32
- Georgia 28
- Illinois 26
- Michigan 26
- Pennsylvania 26
- North Carolina 25
- Colorado 20
- Missouri 19
- Tennessee 17
- Virginia 17
- Louisiana 16
- New York 16
- Indiana 15
- Arizona 14
- South Carolina 14
- Alabama 13
- Arkansas 13
- Oklahoma 13
- Minnesota 12
- Kansas 11
- Maryland 11
- Wisconsin 11
- Iowa 10
- Mississippi 10
- Kentucky 9
- New Jersey 9
- Utah 8
- New Mexico 7
- Puerto Rico 7
- Nevada 6
- Nebraska 5
- West Virginia 5
- Connecticut 3
- Hawaii 3
- Maine 3
- North Dakota 3
- Montana 2
- New Hampshire 2
- South Dakota 2
- Washington 2
- Wyoming 2
- Delaware 1
- Idaho 1
- Rhode Island 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Sam's Club
Tracked chains Sam's Club customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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