South Tampa residents will no longer have to hoof it all the way to Brandon for discounted pizzas and bulk sweatpants.
On October 17, Sam’s Club will reopen their 5135 S Dale Mabry Hwy. store with some new additions. According to Tampa Bay Business Journal, the new store will be the only Sam's Club in the country to use a new “Scan & Go” feature, which allows customers to scan and pay for their merchandise from a smartphone, using the Sam’s Club app.
“We’re taking Scan & Go and making it the foundation of the new Sam’s Club Now app, which all members will use to shop here,” CEO Jamie Iannone, wrote in a blog late last year. “This will be an interactive experience and they’ll help us test and refine new features before we launch them nationally. There will always be something new to test as we’ll regularly add new functionality to the app.”
The app was first introduced in 2016 and has since been updated to allow customers to scan the entire item instead of having to search for the barcode (which can be a bitch at times).
Back in early 2018, Sam’s Club closed the South Tampa location and changed the store into a fulfillment center.
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This article appears in Oct 10-17, 2019.