On Dec. 16, Sam’s Club [3] opened its new Pudong East store in Shanghai — the seventh in the city — bringing its total to 62 stores nationwide.

The Pudong East store is located at 228 Lichuan Road, Pudong New Area. The store has a ceiling height of around nine meters, main aisles wider than three meters and more than 1,000 parking spaces. The parking area features 50 fast-charging stations alongside more than 100 standard charging stations for electric vehicles.

Sam’s Club first entered China in 1996 with a store in Shenzhen and opened its first Shanghai location in 2010 on Gaoke West Road, Pudong. Expansion in the city accelerated sharply from 2019 onward. By 2023, with the openings of the Zhenru and Jiading locations, Shanghai had six Sam’s Club stores, surpassing Shenzhen as the city with the most nationwide. The recent store opening brings Shanghai’s total to seven, reinforcing the city’s lead in China.

Zhou Lanlan, Sam’s Club’s regional general manager for Shanghai, confirmed that Shanghai not only has more Sam’s Club stores than anywhere else in China but also boasts the most extensive coverage of the company’s express delivery online service. The service now covers almost the entire city, with the exception of Chongming.

In fiscal year 2025 (Feb. 1, 2024, to Jan. 31, 2025), Walmart China recorded net sales of approximately $20.3 billion (147.3 billion Chinese yuan). Sam’s Club accounted for over 100 billion yuan — more than two-thirds — making it the primary growth driver. Based on this, average sales per Sam’s Club store are estimated to be close to 2 billion yuan ($284 million).

Before the end of this year, Sam’s Club is set to open a new store in Liwan, Guangdong, bringing the total number of new stores opened in 2025 to 10, setting a record for the highest number of store openings in a single year since Sam’s Club entered China.

Image: Walmart China

This article was translated from Chinese. Read the original article [4].