Sam’s Club

So I visited this sams club to get an official card after getting the free one year membership for new moms starter kit flyer thingy ma gee stuff in the mail. The members services people were overall friendly but their card machine was not working so they gave me a temporary card and told me to come back so finally I come back and I’m ready to check out the lines are horrendous like can we get a line traffic directing person? the staff is ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ some of them are nice the others do not even acknowledge you. Then I ventured to the food court that was not a good decision their icee machine was down I ordered a large veggie pizza good price btw but only to find out the pizza was raw in the middle I mean like doughy cheese still cold in the center. So much for convenience! No more foodcourt for me and I don’t see the wow factor in the store overall.

Just called to get pricing on a car battery. I called the main line, waited for someone to answer (3min). They transferred my to tires, waited (2min) someone picked up the phone and hung up.
Going to Sears.

Items that I usually buy here are starting to go away! Such as chili like dressing and tamales! The new manager is not so helpful and is not the best one to contact if something’s missing!

Beware! This place was a 4 star it’s a 3 star s now. Whenever you get items from here please check your receipt after sometimes they scan the item twice meaning they charge you twice for an item or possibly even more. It happened to me. So a tip check your receipt after you come here

very slow, even not any customers, they should improve it!!!

What really bugs me about this place is that the bathrooms are never clean and once in a while, I see at least one toilet clogged and it is nasty. I like how cheap the stuff is, but I’m not huge on the clothes here. It’s out of style and this place isn’t the best for me to collect them. I did like the boxers my mom got me. They fit me well. Whenever we go to the restaurant in there, the pizza is too greasy and cheap. I prefer getting pizza that is frozen in the freezers. This place I’d say is okay. I’m not big about cheap stores.

We ordered a grill, a week later got a notification that it was delivered… to make a story short, they lost it!
How do you lose HUGE 150 lbs box!!!

Sams Club Tires–
I had four new tires installed yesterday at a cost of $ 570. The installer called me about 1.5 hours after dropping of my vehicle that they had broken the tire sensor and he would show it to me when I returned. Upon returning he informed me that the he never told me he broke it and that it was broken when I dropped off the vehicle. I left the tire dep’t with the new tires installed and noticed a bad vibration. The next day I went to the Sams Club in Hagerstown MD for a rebalance. The installer in Hagerstown told me that the new tires were never balanced when they were installed.

My family and I have a Costco membership, but this past weekend we decided to stop at Sam’s Club instead because they were having a «no membership needed» weekend entry. The selection and price at Sam’s club is pretty much the same as Costco. We went on a Friday night, parking was easy and the lines weren’t bad, around a ¹⁰⁄₁₅ minute wait.
What irritated me was their lack of information regarding the no membership needed weekend. We walked in and showed them the flyer we received in the mail and was let in with no problem. It wasn’t until we got to the cashier did he tell us, we had to go to membership desk to receive a special card for non-​members. It would of been nice to know that before, but okay that’s fine. But then, we get to the membership desk and the woman rudely states there’s a 10% extra surcharge for non-​members! I explain how there was never any mention of an extra fee, and she apathetically says «sorry, do you still want it?» No thanks! There’s nothing there I can’t get at Costco or another store, and without an attitude. I wish there was at least fine print on the flyer or a sign somewhere before I wasted my time there.

It’s ok. Have to go on off hours to avoid the lines. Personally, I would rather drive up to the club in frederick as that one is much nicer and has cheap gas.
Lines aren’t too bad weekdays at 4:00. If I go and see long lines, I usually just leave because it’s not worth the aggrevation. Lines move very slow and there is always some idiot ahead of me paying with quarters or something.
The store in frederick has self checkouts if you have under 10 items and there is never a long line.
I think with better staffing and self checkouts things would be better.

SUCKS!!!

i think they got good prices and good quality to go with it. i just want to warn those of you in love with plants that their stuff is not A+ and can and will die on you especially the packs of bulbs. dont even go near those bulbs

They have a generous return policy. This location is more expensive then the location in sterling VA and doesn’t have as big of a selection. but its convenient. They sell more «novelty items» like sour punch straws an sour patch kids and just mini individual products that costco doesn’t. I still love my costco membership but recently I feel like things are cheaper at sam’s club. I don’t buy groceries or anything I buy all vending products.
This location has samples of food just like costco, the parking lot is on a slant so its hard to keep the cart in place.
Their little food court place thing isn’t as good as costco’s. At least they take different different credit cards. Discover, Mastercard and debits.

This review is specifically for the auto part of the store. The staff there is very friendly. I brought in a flat tire and they were able to replace the tire quickly and efficiently.

good deals
they sell different things from Costco
parking is not as bad as the Costco in Gaithersburg
also gives out samples but i’m not sure what days

Friends have told me they go to Frederick Sam’s Club because it’s cleaner, aisles are wider, less busy. But from Silver Spring, Gaithersburg is far enough. They have good prices on many items, even better than sale items at local groceries. But today they went down a notch in my review. I found a bag of name brand onion rings in the frozen food section, all alone, sitting on top of boxes of onion rings. Threw the bag in my cart. When cashier, a really nice guy, went to scan them no response from computer. He set them aside and asked a lady at the front desk to check the price, she punted to another male employee. After we were wrung up neither had responded so I said I’d close out my purchases (a hefty amount) and pay for the onion rings with cash when they had a price. Long story short, the second guy fiddles around, flirts with other employees and finally tells me he can’t find the item in their computer and thinks they might not be one of their products. What! So does Costco sneak in at night and put huge bags of Alexia Onion Rings in the Sam’s Club freezers?! Wow! Scary! Had to say after waiting 10 minutes or more, on the principle of the thing, that finally I gave up and I would pass on the onion rings.
And p. s., hello Wheaton Costco. Let’s see what you have to offer.

This is a review for the OPTICAL/​EYE CARE Department inside Sam’s Club.
You don’t need to be a Sam’s club member to visit their Eye Care Center. When you first enter just tell them that you are going to optical and they let you in without the card.
Since my crappy student health plan doesn’t cover eye care, I visited Dr. Zhang to get a new prescription for contacts. Until then, I had already exhausted my most recent supply and had been walking around with lenses that expired two years ago and were the wrong prescription. Dr. Zhang takes walk-​ins, but I had an appointment made anyway. She charges $ 95 for an appointment, which is considerably less than what I’d have to pay for an annual appointment my family optician in Rockville. The quality of the visit was absolutely the same, I saw no discernable difference between the two doctors.
The biggest reason why G-​burg Sam’s Club Optical gets 5 stars from me is because the rest of their staff is absolutely stellar and amazing. They’re really helpful, polite, professional, and way overqualified for what they do. One of the women who worked there was bilingual and spoke French to one of the customers. Another has an accounting degree and really should be doing stuff other than scanning my grocery items (which they allowed me to ring up at Optical so long as it didn’t exceed 5 items). They informed me that even though my health care provider doesn’t cover eye care, I can still apply for a reimbursement after the fact and they immediately printed out and made copies of all the paper work I didn’t even know I needed to make that happen. I just felt like hanging out there all day or something, they were so friendly.
And for your snobs who wouldn’t consider getting glasses at anywhere below Lenscrafters, I heard that even a congressman or two gets his glasses made at Gburg Sam’s Club. I didn’t pay a lot of attention to prices for glasses — but I noticed one pair was like $ 73. They have 3 or 4 different types of soft lenses. Acuvue Oasys $ 25/​box, Acuvue Advance ($ 18+/box), and regular Acuvue for like $ 13/​box. Then there is this extra expensive other brand I don’t remember.