SAN ANTONIO – Sam's Club abruptly closed some of their stores across the country, including one location in San Antonio.
Shoppers found the store at 12919 San Pedro Ave. on the north side suddenly shut down on Thursday. The store will reopen on Friday but will officially shut down on Jan. 26, according to a sign on the door.
Similar signs have been place on stores in Florida.
Walmart, which own Sam's Club, released no formal statement about stores closing. However the Associated Press reports that 63 Sam's Clubs around the nation will be shut down.
Around 10 of those stores will be repurposed into "e-commerce distribution sites," but the company has not said which locations.
Only four Texas stores will be closed: the San Pedro location and three stores in Houston.
Members of the closing clubs will be able to change their memberships to another location or cancel their membership, according to the company's Twitter account.
The sudden closing has also raised questions for customers who have prescriptions at these locations.
The closings come the same day that Walmart annouced it will increase its starting wage and give employees cash bonuses.
The employees at the San Pedro store will still recieve a bonus, according to Walmart spokesperson Anne Hatfield. They will also be given the chance to tranfer to other Walmart or Sam's Club locations, and employees who do not will be given severance pay.
Hatfield was unable to say how many employees are at the San Pedro store, but most Sam's locations employ on average of 150 people.
