3. You really hate shopping in stores Warehouse club stores can be crowded. And if you really only have the option to shop on weekends, you may find that you're constantly looking at packed aisles.

A different kind of club has become popular among consumers: club stores. Sujeet Naik, senior research associate at Coresight ...

In terms of membership fees, Costco now charges $65 a year for basic access, while Sam’s Club has held steady at $50 since ...

Costco has also increasingly installed membership card scanners at its warehouse club stores, and the reaction among members has been mixed. Some say that the scanners cause bottlenecks at store ...

Costco has become one of the biggest names in the membership-only warehouse club store business. The chain first opened under the name Price Club on Morena Boulevard in San Diego in 1976, and ...

BJ’s is also investing in technology to reduce the monetary and time costs of store-based fulfillment, according to Eddy. The warehouse club is using autonomous inventory robots and AI to ...