With ongoing financial challenges prompting consumers to make more conservative spending changes, major membership wholesale clubs’ latest promotions suggest they are having trouble getting shoppers to spring for full-priced memberships. In the last few weeks alone, Costco brought back its $20 membership deal, BJ’s Wholesale...
As grocery retailers look for ways to make their curbside pickup businesses more profitable, membership warehouse club chain BJ’s Wholesale Club is using robots to drive margins by lowering labor costs. The Massachusetts-based retailer, which has more than 230 locations across 20 states, shared on...
Membership chains such as BJ’s Wholesale Club are seeing the gains they made at the highest points of grocery inflation hold strong, even as price increases moderate. BJ’s, for its part, a membership warehouse club chain with 238 locations across 19 states, discussed this trend on a...
With the Digital Food & Beverage Conference kicking off Monday (June 12) in La Jolla, California, where industry executives gather to learn, among other subjects, about how to best leverage technology to drive loyalty, PYMNTS research reveals some of the key ways that grocers are...
November 24, 2022
As consumers look to get their food needs met in the face of sky-high inflation, digital coupons are proving essential for driving continued engagement. BJ’s Wholesale Club, for one, noted earlier this month on a call discussing the retailer’s third-quarter financial results that “digitally enabled” sales rose 43% year over year, helped by the brand’s […]
March 16, 2022
When consumers receive a delivery from Amazon, they’ve prepaid online with a credit card. Commercial consignment works differently. When companies deliver a large quantity of commercial products — whether it...
April 24, 2017
This week we saw scientists march, the French go to the polls and a $400 high-tech juicer turned out to be an innovation on par with something that everyone already...
August 25, 2025
BJ’s Wholesale Club says memberships have jumped 55% since the company went public. The warehouse retailer released earnings on Friday (Aug. 22) showing a new membership milestone of 8 million, with 90% of those members renewing their subscription. The company’s comparable store sales were down 0.3% when factoring in fuel because of declining fuel costs […]
September 16, 2022
Aiming to offer its members flexibility and convenience, membership warehouse club operator BJ’s Wholesale Club has begun accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) payments when members...
April 29, 2022
BJ’s Wholesale Club on Friday (April 29) opened its first BJ’s market concept club in Warwick, Rhode Island, unveiling a location that’s 43,000 square feet, about half the size of...
August 19, 2021
Comparable club sales at BJ’s Wholesale Club went up 4 percent in the second quarter of fiscal 2021, ending July 31, a continued upswing that saw the retailer grow its...