How Costco, Sam's Club, B.J.'s Wholesale Took Over America

When a tornado tore through her hometown of Grapevine, Texas, in 2022, assistant principal Daniela Flores Alvarez remembers being in her office, frantically considering with other officials how best to keep her students safe. Later, as she drove home through a maze of upended trees and downed power lines, she says she felt “relief that no lives had been lost and it didn’t hit our school. But then I got worried—when would the Sam’s Club reopen?” Read Full Article »