Yeah, maybe it varies, but the local Sam's has gone way downhill over the last couple decades (I don't think income-demographics have changed much in the area over the same time-span, which makes that really odd) along with the three nearest Wal-Marts. Sam's is now firmly in the same relation to CostCo as Wal-Mart is to Target: basically the same thing, except everything about it is anywhere from a little to a lot worse (except, sometimes, the prices)