{"id":292457,"date":"2025-10-10T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:12:12","slug":"sams-club-to-extend-store-hours-for-all-members-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292457\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam\u2019s Club to extend store hours for all members \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam&#8217;s Club members have new shopping hours starting Sunday, the warehouse club said on its website. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extended club hours, coming soon!&#8221; a website banner on a Chicago-area Sam&#8217;s Club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsclub.com\/club\/6228-vernon-hills-il\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.samsclub.com\/club\/6228-vernon-hills-il\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">location<\/a> read. The new hours, which go into effect Sunday, Oct. 12, mean Sam&#8217;s Club stores will be open until 8 p.m. daily for &#8220;all members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, most stores were daily until 6 p.m., reports said, though hours may vary by store and membership tier. Walmart, which owns Sam&#8217;s Club, did not immediately respond to NBC Chicago&#8217;s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>The change comes more than a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/costcos-new-vip-hours-for-certain-members-now-in-effect\/3818215\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/costcos-new-vip-hours-for-certain-members-now-in-effect\/3818215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costco extended its shopping hours<\/a>, but only for certain members. As of Sept. 2, Costco executive members can now enter stores as early as 9 a.m. on weekdays and Sundays, giving them an extra hour of private shopping. On Saturdays, those members can enter at 9:30 a.m., with stores opening to all other members at 10 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Costco&#8217;s executive membership costs $130 a year, compared to the Gold Star membership, which costs $65 per year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/customerservice.costco.com\/app\/answers\/answer_view\/a_id\/1013504\/~\/membership-fee-increase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Those membership fees increased<\/a>\u00a0on Sept. 1, 2024, from $120 for Executive membership, and $60 for Gold Star.<\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s Club memberships start at $50 per year for a club membership, or $110 for a plus membership. <\/p>\n<p>Both Costco and Sam&#8217;s Club are typically open on Columbus Day, which falls on Monday, Oct. 13. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam&#8217;s Club members have new shopping hours starting Sunday, the warehouse club said on its website. &#8220;Extended club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":292458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,6270],"class_list":{"0":"post-292457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-retail"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115350991144770424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}