Sam's Club employees are seeing green. As participants in a pilot project, they are measuring their fossil fuel consumption and taking small steps to make a difference. ...more

October 29, 2007

39,000 Number of sampling events in Sam's Club, weekly 68.5 Percentage of customers who buy item after sampling 200 Percentage rise in impulse buys at the most successful Sweetbay Supermarket sampling events $16 Average hourly wage samplers can make with some companies $2 billion Annual retailer and manufacturer investment for in-store sampling 11,200 People employed as samplers by Sam's Club Sources: Sweetbay Supermarket, Wal-Mart Stores, Mass Connections, Supermarket News, Promotion Marketing Association ...more

October 20, 2007

The 160 families living around Lake Wilson and Little Lake Wilson share a few common bonds. ...more

October 17, 2007

When the downtown shops started to flee, one by one, during the giddy prosperity of the 1950s, leaving for those newly constructed gems called shopping centers on the south side of town, the Hayman Jewelry Co. stayed put. ...more

October 9, 2007

Cargill Inc. is voluntarily recalling more than 840,000 pounds of ground beef patties distributed at Sam's Club stores nationwide after four Minnesota children who ate the food developed E. coli illness, a Cargill official said Saturday. ...more

October 7, 2007

The Take Stock In Children program of the Pasco Education Foundation has received grant funding from the local Sam's Club. ...more

September 19, 2007