Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), is the nation’s eighth largest retailer and a leading membership warehouse club offering superior products and services to more than 47 million members in clubs across the U.S., as well as in Brazil, China and Mexico. Members save an average of 30 percent over traditional retailers. To learn more about Savings Made SimpleSM, visit SamsClub.com, and look for Sam’s Club on Twitter and Facebook.

The size of an average Club is 130,000 square feet. Our Clubs feature shelves stocked with a variety of quality, value-priced general merchandise, including: • Baby products • Books • Electronics • Flowers • Furniture • Grocery items • Healthcare products • Home appliances • Jewelry • Office supplies • Sports Equipments • Toys

Most Clubs also have specialty services including: • Pharmacy • Optical Department • Tire and Battery Center • Photo Department • Liquor Store

Annual membership fees are $35 for businesses and $40 for families. Sam’s Club also offers a $100 Plus Membership and when combined with a Sam’s Club® Discover®, Members can earn up to 2 percent cash back on a variety of purchases.

Sam’s Club was the first warehouse club to introduce paperless coupons in 2009 through its groundbreaking membership benefit program eValues. eValues provide personalized savings on hundreds of items including fresh foods, health and beauty products, office supplies as well as other goods and services available at Sam’s Club locations. The eValues benefit is included in both the Advantage and Business versions of the Sam’s Club Plus® membership.

Sam’s Club has early shopping hours for Plus members and small business owners from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. during the week. All members can take advantage of advance ordering services, Click n’ Pull® to make shopping more convenient. Simply submit an order online by 5 p.m., and items will be ready to pick up the next day. Members can also take advantage of the new delivery and installation program. Tech Experts assemble, deliver and install Sam’s Club items, starting at $59.

Sam’s Club members receive a 20% savings on fees by applying for small business loans through Superior Financial Group. The process is simple and fast for $5,000 to $25,000 loans.

Membership is not required to use a Sam’s Club Pharmacy and each location stocks approximately 300 of the most commonly prescribed medications for just $4. Sam’s Club guarantees it will beat any price for branded prescriptions. Other Health and Wellness services provided by Sam’s Club include optical and free monthly health screenings. In 2010, Sam’s Club pharmacies received the highest score in the Prescription Ordering and Pickup Process factor in a J.D. Power and Associates study. Sam’s Club pharmacies tied for second overall in the mass merchandiser segment of the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 U.S. National Pharmacy Study.

Sam’s Club established the Simple Steps to Saving Green eco-icon to help members identify products that are more environmentally friendly. Working with suppliers, Sam’s Club has also improved more than 40 items that qualify for this label by taking measures that reduce waste, increase recycling, are more energy efficient, conserve natural resources or inspire more responsible living and consuming.

In 2008, Sam’s Club introduced branded reusable shopping bags and estimates it will eliminate 1.9 million pounds of cardboard and package waste from the waste stream or more than 3,200 pounds per club. This translates into 1,800 more recycled material bales per year.

In 2008, Sam’s Club converted nine locations in Southern California to include Home Efficiency Centers. These Centers provide a centralized location to showcase products that improve the efficiency of homes or businesses and include energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) and LED lighting, outdoor solar lighting, high performance furnace filters, high-efficiency toilets and water-saving showerheads. As a result of the success, these key items were rolled out to all clubs nationwide in spring of 2009. As of June 2009, sales of GE CFLs and LED lighting are expected to help Members save more than $360 million over the lifespan of the bulbs, while preventing approximately 5 billion pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere – equivalent to taking more than 430,000 cars off the road.

The three main sustainability goals at Sam’s Club are (1) be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy, (2) create zero waste, and (3) sell products that sustain our environment and resources. To date, Sam’s Club has taken several steps to meet these goals including: - Placing an auxiliary power unit on each truck. The power unit turns on automatically after the truck idles for three minutes. The power unit supplies heat and air conditioning in the truck cab, so the engine can be turned off, which reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. - Reclaiming waste by sandwiching shrink wrap, plastic and aluminum between layers of cardboard and bundling it together in bales. The bales are sent to certified processors for recycling. - Creating an electronic Recycling and Trade-in Program so members can turn in used electronics, such as iPods. –Installing a significant number of micro wind turbines mounted on parking lot light poles to support the energy needs of its Palmdale, Calif., location – the first retailer in the U.S. to do so.

In 2010, the Sam’s Club Giving Program made cash and in kind contributions of more than $89 million which included donating more than 65 million meals. We support community-based programs that empower young people, families and small business owners to make smart-choices that lead to healthy and bright futures.

Each year, Sam’s Club partners with the Salvation Army during the holiday season. During the 2010 holiday season, Red Kettles located at Sam’s Club locations raised $5 million nationwide. These donations and others support a variety of programs and services including to provide food, shelter, rent assistance, summer camps and Christmas assistance to the nearly 30 million Americans served by The Salvation Army each year. Sam’s Club and The Salvation Army also partnered with Off the Field, a professional football players’ wives association, to host the fourth annual Dream Drive on Dec. 16. Through their efforts, 10 needy families in 10 cities across the country received $1,000 worth of food and holiday gifts, including clothes, personal items and toys from their local Sam’s Club to help provide a brighter Christmas.

Last year, Sam’s Club donated more than 38 million pounds of food to U.S. food banks through Walmart’s partnership with Feeding America. The Walmart Stores, Inc. food donation program was first piloted at Sam’s Club locations in 2007.

During the 2008 National Small Business Week, Sam’s Club conducted more than 5,000 invoice comparisons and identified more than $3.5 million in savings for small businesses through products available for purchase on its shelves vs. competitors. In 2009, Sam’s Club visited more than 300,000 small businesses and conducted cost comparisons identifying more than $750 million in savings on products available to small business owners. In 2011, Sam’s Club Managers worked in over 2000 businesses across the United States during May in appreciation of our Business Members that rely on us for their business needs.

Sam’s Club employs more than 100,000 associates in its 610 locations in the United States and is a popular destination for people in all stages of life looking for that first or part-time job and second career. More than 60 percent of club managers were promoted from hourly positions.