After a tornado struck the Dallas area in December 2022, injuring five people and destroying the Sam’s Club in Grapevine, the plan was to permanently close the location.
The Walmart-owned warehouse club had experienced a period of pullback in its store portfolio: It had last opened a new location in 2017, and it abruptly closed 63 stores in 2018.
The store count remained flat as the company increased net sales by nearly 50%, to $86.2 billion, last year.
The fate of the Grapevine store changed after Sam’s Club announced last year that it planned to open 30 locations by 2030.
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