
How Costco, Sam's Club and BJ's won the pandemic
CNN
Few companies have gained more of an advantage during the pandemic than America's warehouse club giants.
During the early days of Covid, shoppers flooded into Costco, BJ's and Sam's Club — which were deemed "essential" businesses and stayed open through lockdowns — to load up on groceries and household staples such as toilet paper. Those customers are still coming 22 months later and many are buying even more stuff for their homes and families than they did before the crisis.
Millions of customers signed up for club memberships for the first time and held onto them, pushing the chains' member rolls to all-time highs.

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