Sam’s Club

After being a SAMs Club member for over 16 years, I canceled my membership and became a member over at the New Costco, better location, the store is much cleaner and the stores staff is much more helpful and friendly, this is important when I am paying to shop in your store.

This review is for the tire and auto department. I am giving them 2 stars due to the extremely long wait. I arrived at SAMs around 8:45 and asked for a simple rotate and balance for my vehicle. The guy at the front desk told me it should be finished in an hour. I come back to the desk at 10:15 and my vehicle still is not ready. There is now a lady at the front desk and she said it should be another 30 minutes. So I decided to wait on a bench beside the working bays. At 11:00 they haven’t even STARTED on my vehicle! It has been 2.25 hours and they haven’t started! I have used other SAMs location for this service due to the price and I have never had this issue. I have always been in and out in 30 – 45 minutes. Very disappointed with this location!

Yikes. I feel like everyone here is in a generally grouchy mood. The parking is atrocious. Really a miserable place to shop.

Perfect place to buy anything in bulk. They have tire center, eye center, decent wine choices, and anything you need for the home.
Lines can be long at times, but they move quick. The worse thing about this Sams Club is its location. Parking can be a major drain. This has to be the worst parking lot in America.
If you are like me, bring a list and stick to it. If you don’t, you’ll pay for it later.

There is a fine line between being educated and being smart. A good case to point out of someone being too educated is the current location of the Sams club in Mobile. Leaving it at its old location or relocating it to a more uncongested accessible area would have been smarter in my opinion!
For anyone who lives in Mobile it is a well known fact that Airport Boulevard traffic around the vicinity of the Bel Air Mall reaches its apogee. It has always been this way since the malls were built back in the 50’s and 60’s. Why anyone would want to locate Sams club at the old Gayfers location is beyond the best of my knowledge! It would have been better off to leave it where it was. Getting in and out at this location is a horrid nightmare! A better location would have been across the interstate from the Hank Aaron stadium. I used to shop at their old location regularly and its because of this current location that I rarely shop at Sams club anymore!
***Update 2/​16/​14***
Recently I learned that Cosco is going to build their location exactly where I mentioned in my comment above. Looks like they are the smarter ones I guess! I’ve heard a lot of good positive comments about Cosco and I hope they live up to what I’ve been told.