You know it's not a good sign when you pull up to a newly built store, and in the parking lot you get a really dirty look from a woman who has a trolley filled with bulk- sized M&Ms.
That should have been our cue to reverse the hell out of here.
However, we were looking for a queen-size mattress topper that the other Sam's Club didn't have and recommended that we look here. Here's what happened:
After five minutes of trying to get in the entrance thanks to the slow crowds who seemed to have all day to spend at Sam's, we finally made it inside where at first I thought we had been magically transported to Costco. The layout was very similar, but in Sam's case, the displays seemed to have been rearranged by the drugged-up looking kids that kept running around our cart while their equally drugged-up-looking parents sat around, looking bored.
We found the bed/mattress section, but the toppers weren't there. Instead we find them all the way across the store, where the food section is five steps away. It felt like a scavenger hunt, except all the obvious places to look for what we needed ended up being dead ends. So we find exactly two queen-size toppers. One box was torn open, revealing the contents inside, and the other box was so caved in that it looked like the aforementioned kids in the store gave it a good beating. Frustrated, we turned our attention to getting the other stuff we needed while we were there. We circled around the snail-like crowds for ten minutes before we found the water that we usually get in between energy drinks. Then it took us another five minutes to get other drinks while a hyper kid danced around our cart while his mother watched.
Needless to say, (but I'm saying it anyway) I was disappointed. The layout was like a maze, and I doubt even a lab rat could find its way around. While it would make sense to group all products of the same nature together, Sam's has them scattered around randomly,
What normally takes us ten minutes to do at our regular Sam's Club took us forty-five minutes to navigate the human circus at this Sam's Club. The one on Highway 90 across from Wal-Mart is never this crowded or disorganized.
If you feel brave enough to navigate a cluttered maze with screaming children everywhere, then this is the Sam's Club for you. I, for one, would like to keep my sanity, so I won't be setting foot here again. read more