Great Deals, limited selection, amateur website, be careful
Written: Mar 16 '07 (Updated Mar 16 '07)
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This review applies to only buying food and household stuff. Everything else is ignored.
Sams Club is a business to business retail store. The main business of the store is to sell bulk goods to businesses ranging from eating places to offices. But they also have a mix of good deals for more normal people that have a reason to buy in bulk, such as a large family.
What I use the online store for is selecting goods ahead of time for my next trip to the local sams club. As far as I can tell they have the items, prices, and quantities correct. That is about all they do correctly.
Problems:
1) Links constantly go dead. It is really irritating to have most of the navigational links on the site stop working. Sometimes reloading the browser helps, but not always.
2) Shopping List trouble. Of course I use their shopping lists as I can. But if I enter my account page and then try to see the list, Sams Club claims there isn't anything in the list. I have to enter the list through the order from shopping list link to see the items.
3) Messy pages. I entered the site from a computer that didn't have flash player installed. In the middle of the content the page displays an error message on a portion of the site.
On the good side:
1) some wonderful deals: I make pizza for myself and family on a regular basis. Pepperoni and Canadian Bacon are inexpensive to an extreme. Pepperoni is better than half cost of what is in normal retail stores. I have to buy 5 pounds, but I can freeze it and use it slowly over a few months easily. Cereal prices range from the same as retail to about 25% off. Who can't use up 2 or 3 boxes worth of cereal? Milk is sold by the gallon at 20 to 50 cents less than most retail.
I'm afraid that 1 is the only good side. It will keep me a member. I'm not afraid of being careful and comparing prices with local retail. This place is a bargain shopper's heaven and nightmare all wrapped up in one.
Recommended:
Yes
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