Ava Laing

There are many factors that I see affecting the common food selection by the public. To me,
stores like Sam’s Club, BJ’s, and Costco are the most popular grocery stores for the common public. I
have noticed that it is at stores like these where there are so many people, that most of the time you
will not find a place to park. Whether it is a weekday or a weekend, these stores are always packed.
There are many reasons why this is true.

One factor why these stores attract so much publicity is because they sell their products in a
bigger package. For example, if you are buying a small bag of flour for about 2 dollars at a regular
grocery store, you can buy a three times bigger bag at one of these stores for less than double the price.
So you are paying less and getting more. I think this is one of the major reasons why people shop at
these stores.

Another reason why people come to these stores more than others is that they have a personal
memberships for gas. Usually gas is cheaper if you have a Sam’s Club membership than if you go to a
nearby Shell or any other gas station. So when most people come here to buy gas, they also do their
groceries for the week so they don’t have to worry about going to a local grocery store where prices will
be higher.

My last reason for my claim is that in stores like Costco, there is always a day or two where
people are giving out free samples to different products. Usually, on the weekends, these stores offer
free samples to foods like pizza samples, a new type of cracker, trail mix, vitamin drinks, etc. These are
the type of things that people go and try because they have nothing to lose. And the truth is that once
most people take a bite to a sample, they want to purchase that product. This is a great way of
attracting more people to these stores.