Sam’s Club Just Opened Its First New Location in 7 Years. It Doesn’t Have Any Checkout Lanes.

As U.S. consumers continue to eat meals at home and look for easy, satisfying breakfast options, Beyond Meat is rolling out its first-ever breakfast product in club stores with the debut of Beyond Breakfast Sausage Patties at ALL Sam’s Club stores nationwide starting October 1. …

Local Bounti Corporation announced that it has expanded distribution with its customer, Sam’s Club, for its leafy greens production with service commencing from the Company’s recently opened CEA facility in Mount Pleasant, Texas.  Local Bounti is now fulfilling shipments to six of Sam’s regional distribution centers from two of its facilities, including Byron, Georgia.  …

Sam’s Club’s rapid deployment of its exit technology represents the largest-scale implementation of member-facing AI-powered technology in the retail industry. The retailer’s announcement of reaching the milestone of deploying at 20 percent of its clubs in the first quarter comes as other retailers have struggled to deploy similar technology at scale, with some abandoning efforts, just starting initial pilots, or have not shared plans to enhance customer experiences through checkout and store exit technologies. …