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BJ’s Wholesale Club: BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc is a membership warehouse club chain located in the East Coast of the United States and Ohio. It introduced the concept of warehouse club for the first time to the eastern United States in 1984. A discount department company known as Zayre started the BJ’s Wholesale Club on the Medford border. The company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the “BJ” mark and holds the 288th position on the listing of Fortune magazine of America’s 500 largest public corporations. As of August 31, 2006, BJ’s wholesale club runs 165 warehouses, two Pro food restaurants supply clubs in sixteen different states and employs more than 19,500 team members. The major rivals of BJ’s Wholesale club are Sam’s Club and Costco Wholesale clubs.
BJ’s Wholesale club provides various special benefits to its members. It includes member pricing, branded products at subsidized rates, and acceptance of several valid manufacturer’s coupons as well as different forms of payment such as cash, check, ATM/debit cards and other major credit cards. Apart from these, it also provides certain value added services such as gas stations and propane filling, to its members, pharmacies and car rentals. BJ’s wholesale club benefits differ from one location to another. It is committed to provide its members with high standard, brand name merchandise at lower prices as compared to those available at supermarkets, super centers, drug stores, departmental stores as well as the specialty retail stores.
BJ’s Wholesale Warehouse: BJ’s Wholesale Club, a brand in warehouse club operates 144 traditional size big box warehouse clubs that averaged around 112,000 square feet, 19 smaller format warehouse clubs around 71,000 square feet and two Profoods clubs averaging around 62,000 square feet. This company offers numerous services to its members enabling them to shop more at BJ’s, thereby encouraging more frequent trips to the clubs. Some of the special services provided by BJ’s Wholesale warehouse include optical centers with complete services, food courts, Verizon wireless centers, photo developing, BJ’s vacations, garden and storage sheds and several others. In the fiscal year 2005, food accounted for around 59% of BJ’s total food and sales whereas the other 41% included a range of common merchandise items. BJ’s food categories include frozen foods, fresh meat and dairy products, canned goods and household paper products. The general merchandise items are consumer electronics, jewelry, health and beauty aids, household needs and computer software, books, apparel and seasonal items.
BJ’s Wholesale store: BJ’s Wholesale club holds the third position as membership warehouse club in the United States. BJ’s Wholesale club stores sell around 6,500 products including canned, fresh and frozen foods. Apart from this, it even sells general merchandise including office equipment, gas, small appliances, house ware and apparel. BJ’s Wholesale store targets mainly individual retail customers that form 75% of its members. Almost 50% of BJ’s wholesale stores sell gas at a discount to its members.
BJ’s Wholesale and travel: BJ’s Wholesale club offers several benefits to its members that add convenience to their life. It provides them with travel gift cards for various destinations. In addition, the company also offers them gas savings benefits for summer travelers. BJ’s Wholesale Club, one of the leading warehouses club chain provides its members with gas savings at over 80 BJ’s Gas stations to enable them travel even during hike of gas prices. It offers gas prices that are around 4-6 cents per gallon lower than average street price. BJ’s Wholesale Club provides consumers with a cost-effective option for fuelling up in the summer travel season so that they can use the saved amount for other significant purchases.