Sam's Club in California

samsclub.com · Specialty Retail · the Q3 2026 release

Sam's Club has 254 index records in California, its 3rd-largest state of the 45 it operates in.

Every figure in this block is measured inside California. Nothing in it is a rate.

Sam's Club: local figures for California.
Figure	Value	What it measures~~California only~~
Index records in California	254	Records the US location index holds for Sam's Club inside California right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time.
Rank among Sam's Club's states	3rd of 45	By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor.
States with a published Sam's Club page	45	States where the brand has at least 3 index records. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published.
Index records across those states	5,156	The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor.
California's share of that footprint	4.9%	A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate.
Index opening records in California	13	A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today.
Cities with index opening records in California	12	Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table.

The two counts above are measured differently and are both correct. Index records in California is a presence snapshot of what operates there now; index opening records counts what opened inside the tracked window. A chain that already had 40 locations in California and opened none reads 0 openings.
It is a count of OPENINGS, not of stores. Openings are diffs against the previous release, so a mature operator that finished its California buildout before the window opened shows a large location count and no openings at all.
The index files Sam's Club's departments and facilities as separate records — pharmacy, fuel, optical, service and charging points each count as a location — so the record count is not a store count. Net new stores, growth and the quarterly pace are withheld rather than published in a unit they were not measured in.
Sam's Club's opening records arrive overwhelmingly as supplier batches rather than as dated store openings, so they are labelled index opening records and no quarterly pace is published from them.

Where Sam's Club has opened in California

Cities with index opening records recorded for Sam's Club in California. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Sam's Club index records.

Sam's Club index opening records by city in California, largest first.
City~~modal spelling in the index~~	Index opening records~~inside California~~	Share of California openings	Spellings folded~~raw variants in the index~~
Glendora	2	15.4%	1
Concord	1	7.7%	1
Folsom	1	7.7%	1
Lathrop	1	7.7%	1
Moreno Valley	1	7.7%	1
Ontario	1	7.7%	1
Oxnard	1	7.7%	1
Palm Desert	1	7.7%	1
Palmdale	1	7.7%	1
Riverside	1	7.7%	1
Santa Clarita	1	7.7%	1
Vacaville	1	7.7%	1

12 cities with index opening records in California.
Spellings are folded the same way the city URLs are built, so "St. Louis" and "St Louis" are one city rather than two. The most frequent raw spelling wins the label; "Spellings folded" is how many the index actually holds.
Cities are NOT linked: a city page is published only where at least three brands clear the floor, so a link from here would frequently point at a page that does not exist.

Sam's Club in every state we publish

The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. California is highlighted in place.

Sam's Club index records by state.
Rank	State	Index records~~presence snapshot~~	Share of footprint~~published states only~~
1	Texas	738	14.3%
2	Florida	408	7.9%
3	California — this page	254	4.9%
4	Ohio	232	4.5%
5	Georgia	218	4.2%
6	Illinois	214	4.2%
7	Michigan	210	4.1%
8	Pennsylvania	201	3.9%
9	North Carolina	192	3.7%
10	Colorado	157	3.0%
11	Missouri	155	3.0%
12	Virginia	128	2.5%
13	Louisiana	124	2.4%
14	Tennessee	117	2.3%
15	Oklahoma	116	2.2%
16	Indiana	114	2.2%
17	Arizona	112	2.2%
18	Alabama	111	2.2%
19	Minnesota	111	2.2%
20	South Carolina	111	2.2%
21	Maryland	92	1.8%
22	New York	86	1.7%
23	Wisconsin	83	1.6%
24	Kansas	78	1.5%
25	Arkansas	77	1.5%
26	Kentucky	77	1.5%
27	Utah	72	1.4%
28	Iowa	70	1.4%
29	New Jersey	67	1.3%
30	New Mexico	66	1.3%
31	Nevada	63	1.2%
32	Mississippi	62	1.2%
33	West Virginia	43	0.8%
34	Nebraska	40	0.8%
35	North Dakota	21	0.4%
36	Maine	20	0.4%
37	New Hampshire	19	0.4%
38	South Dakota	18	0.3%
39	Wyoming	18	0.3%
40	Montana	16	0.3%
41	Hawaii	14	0.3%
42	Idaho	10	0.2%
43	Connecticut	9	0.2%
44	Delaware	9	0.2%
45	Massachusetts	3	0.1%

A state appears here only with at least 3 index records. States below the floor are in the index but have no page, so this total is smaller than the national count.
Index records are a presence snapshot at the Q3 2026 release. They are not openings and they are not a change.

Sam's Club nationwide

Context for the local figures above. None of it is a California number.

Sam's Club: national figures, for context only.
Figure	Value~~United States~~	Basis
US index records	5,171	At the latest vintage, Q3 2026.
US index records at the window start	4,927	The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024.
Net new over the window	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings.
Growth over the window	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	Percentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide.
Growth as a multiple	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	The same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count.
Growth against its category	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	The brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out.
Mean quarterly change	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub.
Verified openings in the window	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide.
Openings pace, latest step	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step.
Openings pace, prior step	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	The same measure one step earlier.
Direction	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	Accelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed.
Latest pace as a share of the base	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	The latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage.
Prior pace as a share of the base	withheld: these records are departments, not stores — see the note under this table	The same measure one step earlier.
Reported openings pace, latest	+205	The server's own pre-aggregated pace. Shown because the page ranks on the series-derived figure above and the two must agree.
Reported openings pace, prior	+5.9	The same, one step earlier.
Largest single step's share of the change	100%	One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings.
Steps that moved the same direction	57%	A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter.
Passes the credibility filter	no	Largest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero.
Cleared to print a percentage	yes	Whether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything.
Openings corroborated by coverage	117%	Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step.
Records matching the brand's own website	100%	Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain.
Records sharing an address with another operator	48%	High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases.
Entity class	chain	Anything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier.
Category	Retail > Pharmacy	The index's own category path for this brand.
Segment	Specialty Retail	The published grouping the category rolls up to.
Match name in the index	sam s club	The string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name.
Display name	Sam's Club	As published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's.
Domain	samsclub.com	The key every table on this tier is joined on.
Tracked window	8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026	How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across.
Vintage stamps	2024-11-19\|2024-12-03\|2025-03-06\|2025-06-10\|2025-09-09\|2025-12-16\|2026-03-18\|2026-07-09	Every release these figures were built from, oldest first, pipe-separated. It is a LIST of dates rather than one date, which is why nothing on this page prints it as a timestamp.

Every figure in this block is NATIONAL. It is identical on all 45 of Sam's Club's state pages and is not apportioned to California — dividing a national percentage into a state is not a fact about anything, which is why no California growth rate is published anywhere on this page.
Openings are individually dated records new to the index; net new is the difference between two count snapshots. The two answer different questions and rarely match.
The index files Sam's Club's departments and facilities as separate records — pharmacy, fuel, optical, service and charging points each count as a location — so the record count is not a store count. Net new stores, growth and the quarterly pace are withheld rather than published in a unit they were not measured in.
Sam's Club's opening records arrive overwhelmingly as supplier batches rather than as dated store openings, so they are labelled index opening records and no quarterly pace is published from them.

Sam's Club's count by quarter, nationwide

The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.

Sam's Club: US index records at each tracked vintage.
Quarter	Vintage date	US index records	Indexed~~100 = first vintage~~	Change vs prior
Q4 2024	2024-11-19	4,927	100	—
Q4 2024	2024-12-03	4,924	100	-3
Q1 2025	2025-03-06	4,930	100	+6
Q2 2025	2025-06-10	4,923	100	-7
Q3 2025	2025-09-09	4,924	100	+1
Q4 2025	2025-12-16	4,879	99	-45
Q1 2026	2026-03-18	4,926	100	+47
Q3 2026	2026-07-09	5,171	105	+245

Indexed values rebase the series to 100 at the first vintage with a non-zero count. A brand first measured at zero enters at 0 and reaches 100 one step later.
National figures. Not apportioned to any state.

Sam's Club's openings by vintage step, nationwide

Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.

Sam's Club: index opening records per vintage step, with the real step length each pace is normalised by.
Step ends	Quarter	Openings~~in the step~~	Step length~~days~~	Pace~~per 91 days~~	Batch-suspect~~share of the step~~
Dec 3, 2024	Q4 2024	2	14	+13	0%
Mar 6, 2025	Q1 2025	2	93	+2.0	0%
Jun 10, 2025	Q2 2025	0	96	0	0%
Sep 9, 2025	Q3 2025	4	91	+4	0%
Dec 16, 2025	Q4 2025	16	98	+15	13%
Mar 18, 2026	Q1 2026	6	92	+5.9	67%
Jul 9, 2026	Q3 2026	255	113	+205	82%

Steps are irregular, so a pace is openings divided by the step's real length and multiplied by 91 days rather than a raw quarterly count.
A batch-suspect share above half means the records were created on an index-wide vendor ingest day or bunched into a few days of the step; it impeaches the timing, not the existence of the stores.
National figures. Not apportioned to any state.

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