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MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — Sensa Products last week announced that its weight-loss product Sensa is now available at Sam's Club stores nationwide. To help kick-off the launch, Sam's Club offered $10 instant savings off the Sensa Weight-Loss System through Labor Day weekend.

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — BJ's Wholesale Club is opening three new club locations, including one in Virginia and two in New York.

The stores will open in Gainseville, Va., Deer Park, N.Y., and Ithaca, N.Y.

"BJ's is thrilled to join these three thriving communities," BJ's Wholesale Club CEO Laura Sen said. "From prepared foods to certified organic and all-natural produce, to name brand electronics and merchandise, we're proud to open our new locations and delight Members with our selection and convenience."

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Costco membership seems to defy current consumer trends as the warehouse club announced Wednesday that it would raise its annual membership fees as it reported increases in fourth-quarter sales and earnings.

BOSTON — With an eye toward achieving better alignment between their companies and the nation’s leading retailers, executives from more than 20 noncompeting vendor companies gathered in June in Boston — after several days of selling at NACDS Marketplace — for the most recent meeting of the Mack Elevation Forum.


The June meeting featured an exclusive presentation on how to break through at Sam’s Club by Jason Reiser, VP family health and wellness for the fast-growing warehouse club retailer.


NEW YORK — Sales during the month of April edged up for wholesalers Costco and BJ's Wholesale Club, the companies reported Thursday.

Issaquah, Wash.-based Costco reported a 17% increase for the four weeks ended May 1 to $6.8 billion, compared with the year-ago period. For the period ended April 30, BJ's disclosed a sales increase of 12.2% to $871.7 million, compared with April 2010.

PITTSBURGH and BENTONVILLE, Ark. — After providing its products to Rite Aid customers through a co-branded store format for more than a decade, GNC is making its foray into the warehouse club for the first time by offering select private-label products at Sam's Club locations.

GNC's products will boost Sam's Club's current health-and-wellness offerings by extending GNC's specialty retailing brand to mass-market customers.

NEW YORK Rumors have surfaced that wholesaler BJ's is looking to sell.

The news first was reported by the New York Post, which cited a source close to the matter. The report said that BJ's is looking to hire an adviser to aid its business-making decisions, including a possible sale to a private equity, naming Los Angeles-based firm Leonard Green & Partners as its likely buyer.