Sam's Club shoppers are getting a perk their Costco friends don't have: more time to shop on Sundays. The Walmart-owned warehouse club said Friday that its stores will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily starting this weekend. The biggest shift is on Sundays, which previously had operating hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Costco locations open for executive members at 9 a.m. each day.
That's according to internal company data reviewed by Reuters. The world's largest online retailer registered 5.4 million U.S. sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and during its four-day sales event, which ran from July 8 to July 11. That was around 116,000 fewer than for the same period a year earlier... and 106,000 below the company's own goal, reflecting a roughly 2% decline in both metrics.