Sam’s Club hopes to be less like, well, Walmart

Sam’s Club has struggled for years with sluggish sales, and it now intends to take a tack that steers it away from its Walmart roots, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company wants to move away from mainstream consumers — households that earn $45,000 a year — and go more upscale to attract affluent shoppers, the report says. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. created Sam’s Club to bring in small businesses looking to stock up on discounted bulk items. But the two have become more intertwined, to…
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