page_title: Sam's Club
section_title: Payment options and store credit products
hierarchical_section_title: Sam's Club / Payment options and store credit products
caption_attribution_description: English: Sam's Club Gas Station in Santa Clarita, California.
context_page_description: Sam's West, Inc. is an American chain of membership-only retail warehouse clubs owned and operated by Walmart Inc., founded in 1983 and named after Walmart founder Sam Walton. As of January 31, 2019, Sam's Club ranks second in sales volume among warehouse clubs with $57.839 billion in sales behind rival Costco Wholesale.
  Its major competitors are Costco Wholesale and BJ's Wholesale Club.
  As of July 31, 2020, Sam's Club operates 599 membership warehouse clubs in the United States in 44 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S Virgin Islands. The only states where Sam's Club does not operate are Alaska, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia. Walmart International also operates Sam's Club stores in Mexico and China. It has 163 locations in Mexico, and 27 in China. Grupo Big, formerly Walmart Brazil, which was de-consolidated from Walmart in August 2018, also operates Sam's Clubs in Brazil. Locations generally range in size from 32,000–168,000 sq ft, with an average club size of approximately 134,000 sq ft.
  On January 11, 2018, Sam’s Club announced the permanent closure of select stores.
caption: Some Sam's Club stores in the U.S. include gas stations.
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