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Sam’s Club has an April deal for new members: Save $25 on a yearly membership
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Spring expenses can kind of sneak up on you. With the weather improving this April, you might be more likely to eat out. Spring break travel can add up. There’s spring cleaning, of course — you may need to pick up a new robot vacuum. And if you’ve been itching to spend time outside this spring, you might want to pick up some new patio furniture or a grill for your outdoor space. Before you know it, your bank account is looking a little… thin.
Here’s the thing, though: There’s a way to save on all those big spring purchases. Warehouse chain Sam’s Club offers deep discounts on all of the above — yes, travel and eating out included. Altogether, you can save thousands of dollars a year.
If you’re not a Sam’s Club member, we have even better news: The warehouse giant is discounting new memberships in April 2024, all the way down to $25 for a yearly Club-level membership. That’s a savings of 50% off the usual $50 yearly membership fee. (Note that you’ll need to be a new Sam’s Club member, and you’ll need to agree to auto-renew.)
We also found a deal on Sam’s Club Plus memberships, which offers 2% cash back on purchases, plus other sweet perks. Sam’s Club Plus memberships are $40 off.
This is a limited-time offer. So tap the button below to sign up for Sam’s Club now at the discounted $25 rate, or read on to learn more about why Sam’s Club is one of our favorite places to shop.
Top 10 reasons why we like Sam’s Club
There are a ton of benefits to a Sam’s Club membership — so many that even long-time Sam’s Club customers may not know about them all. Here are our favorite reasons to sign up for Sam’s Club.
- Sam’s Club offers bulk prices on grocery essentials. No one likes paying full price for toilet paper, garbage bags, laundry detergent and other home essentials. No one likes running out of those essentials, either. Sam’s Club offers excellent prices on items from top brands that your family uses most, with bulk sizing that reduces the need for constant grocery store trips. Tip: Check out the Sam’s Club Member’s Mark brand for even more savings.)
- Sam’s Club offers the most affordable warehouse membership. While there are different benefits to every warehouse store, Sam’s Club offers the lowest yearly membership fee. You won’t be able to beat this $25-per-year offer at another major warehouse chain.
- Sam’s Club members get access to gas discounts — gas at prices lower than competing nearby stations. You can find your local Sam’s Club Fuel Center using the club finder tool on the Sam’s Club website.
- Sam’s Club offers a yearly rebate on purchases (with a Sam’s Club Plus membership). If you’re planning on doing a lot of shopping at Sam’s Club, you can save even more with a Sam’s Club Plus membership. It’s more expensive (currently discounted to $70 per year for your first year), but you’ll earn a 2% rebate on your Sam’s Club purchases. As warehouse store aficionados, we can tell you that the rebate offer pays off, and fast.
- Sam’s Club can save you money on a new car or truck. The Sam’s Club Auto Buying Program makes it easy to sell your used car and get a great price on a new one. Plus, you can take advantage of members-only incentives — right now, you can save an additional $500 to $4,500 on select Mercedes-Benz models.
- Sam’s Club offers everyday deals on home services and repairs. You’ll get a 10% discount on home improvement services — great if you’re planning a remodel in 2024. You can also get discounts on water delivery, home warranties, pest control, home security plans and more.
- Sam’s Club has discounts on travel, including vacation packages, flights, car rentals and more. Don’t head to Disney World or a cruise this year without checking out Sam’s Club’s travel and entertainment deals. Sam’s Club members can get preferred pricing on hotel rooms and rental cars, plus discounts on theme parks, zoos, museums and show tickets. We’ve also seen discounts on airline gift cards at Sam’s Club, so you can save no matter where you travel.
- Sam’s Club can save you money on health care. The Sam’s Club pharmacy offers members-only discounts on prescriptions, with prices starting at just $4 for generics. Select prescriptions are even free for Sam’s Club Plus members. Sam’s Club also offers hearing and eye exams, with designer glasses starting at $59.
- Sam’s Club is a great place to pick up lunch for the family. We love the in-store Sam’s Club Cafe, which offers tasty treats to hungry shoppers at eye-popping prices. It’s hard to beat the $1.38 Sam’s Club hot dog and soda combo. Pizza, salad and brownie sundaes are available too. Or, for a more substantial meal, take home an under-$5, fully cooked Sam’s Club rotisserie chicken — it makes an excellent dinner centerpiece.
- Unlike other warehouse stores, you don’t have to wait in a long checkout line. One of our favorite Sam’s Club perks is Scan & Go, which lets you pay for your shopping trip right from your phone. When you add items to your shopping cart, you can scan their barcodes yourself with the Sam’s Club app. You pay through the app when you’re done, and simply show your digital receipt on the way out.
Convinced? Tap the button below to sign up for a year of Sam’s Club at the discounted rate of $25. (See site for more details.)
Why you should upgrade to Sam’s Club Plus
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There are a lot of perks to a Sam’s Club membership, but there are even more when you upgrade to Sam’s Club Plus. You’ll get free shipping for online orders, free curbside pickup, 2% back on qualifying purchases (up to $500 back per year), free select generic prescriptions and 20% off eyeglasses. Sam’s Club Plus members can also shop sales before other Sam’s Club members. Terms apply. (See the Sam’s Club site for more details.)
The warehouse retailer also has a deal for customers who want to become Sam’s Club Plus members. Right now, you can get $40 off a Sam’s Club Plus membership. That brings the annual price down to $70.
Again, note that you’ll need to be a new member and agree to auto-renew to score this deal.
Save money at other stores: Best Sam’s Club gift card deals
Here’s a Sam’s Club secret you might not know: Your membership can save you money while shopping at other stores, too.
If you plan on eating out this spring, you can save a lot of money at Sam’s Club by buying gift cards for your favorite chains. You can get $60 in Wendy’s gift cards for $48, $50 in California Pizza Kitchen e-gift cards for $40 and a $50 Krispy Kreme e-gift card for $37.50.
Sam’s Club is a great place to get discount movie tickets to an AMC Movie Theatres or Regal Cinemas theater near you. And there are gift card deals for gamers, too — get $100 in Nintendo eShop gift cards for $90. (Some great Nintendo games are coming this spring.)
There are so many gift card deals at Sam’s Club that we don’t have the space to list them all here. Tap the button below to see all of Sam’s Club’s discount gift card offerings and start saving no matter where you shop or eat.
Severe thunderstorms blew out windows in high-rise buildings, downed trees and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Houston area Thursday as Southeast Texas got pummeled for the second time this month.
Flash flood and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for multiple counties, with damaging winds and even tornadoes possible into the evening, said Houston’s National Weather Service office.
“Take shelter now if you’re in the path of this storm. Head to the lowest floor!” the NWS office warned on social media.
Streets were flooded and trees were down across the region. CBS affiliate KHOU-TV showed images of shattered windows on an office building in downtown Houston, with glass littering the street below. Video posted to social media showed a downtown street covered in debris.
Video also appeared to show water being blown into Minute Maid Park, the home of the Houston Astros, despite the stadium’s roof being closed.
Flights were grounded at Houston’s two major airports because of the weather. Sustained winds topping 60 mph were recorded at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
In total, just over one million customers were without power in Texas as of Thursday evening, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.
Of that, more than 842,000 customers were without electricity in and around Harris County, which contains Houston. The county is home to more than 4.7 million people.
“Please avoid the roadways if possible, but if you’re out, please use caution and be on the lookout for debris,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote on social media. Gonzalez shared an image of vehicles attempting to traverse around a massive tree that had come crashing down into an intersection.
The Houston Independent School District announced all schools would be closed Friday.
Heavy storms slammed the region during the first week of May, leading to numerous high-water rescues, including some from the rooftops of flooded homes.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced an effort to shorten the time it takes for U.S. immigration judges to decide the asylum cases of certain migrants who enter the country illegally along the border with Mexico.
Migrant adults released by federal border officials after crossing into the U.S. unlawfully will be eligible to be placed in the program, under a joint initiative between the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, which oversees the nation’s immigration courts.
The effort’s objective, senior U.S. officials said, is to speed up the process of granting asylum to migrants with legitimate cases, and rejecting weak cases. Federal officials under Republican and Democratic administrations have said the current years-long timeframe to decide asylum cases serves as a “pull factor” that attracts migration by economic migrants, who don’t qualify for humanitarian protection, but who often use the asylum system to work in the U.S.
Over the past years, the backlog of cases received by the immigration courts has ballooned, leading to wait times that often surpass four years. Fewer than 800 immigration judges are overseeing more than 3.5 million unresolved cases.
Single migrant adults who plan to live in five major U.S. cities — Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City — could be selected for the new process, which will instruct immigration judges to issue decisions within 180 days, instead of years.
Since the Obama administration, the U.S. has set up several similar programs, colloquially known as “rocket dockets.” While officials have portrayed them as ways to discourage illegal immigration, advocates have said the rocket dockets trample on migrants’ due process by making it more difficult for them to secure lawyers in time for their hearings.
The scope of Thursday’s announcement was not immediately clear, as U.S. officials declined to provide an estimate of the number of migrants who would be placed in the fast-track proceedings. Ten judges have been assigned to the program, one of the officials said during a call with reporters.
The latest rocket docket is the most recent step taken by the Biden administration to curtail unlawful border crossings, which spiked last year to record levels. Last week, the Biden administration published a proposed rule that would allow immigration officials to more quickly reject and deport asylum-seeking migrants who are deemed to endanger public safety or national security.
Last year, the administration implemented a regulation that presumes migrants are ineligible for U.S. asylum if they enter the country illegally after failing to request refuge in another country. It paired that policy with a vast expansion of avenues for some would-be migrants to enter the U.S. legally.
President Biden, who has increasingly embraced more restrictive border policies, has also been considering a more sweeping measure that would further restrict asylum for those entering the U.S. illegally. The move, which would rely on a presidential authority known as 212(f), would almost certainly face legal challenges.
Administration officials have argued they are exploring unilateral immigration actions due to the collapse of a border security agreement that the White House forged with a bipartisan group of senators earlier this year. While the deal would have severely restricted asylum and increased deportations without legalizing unauthorized immigrants, most Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, rejected it outright.
“This administrative step is no substitute for the sweeping and much-needed changes that the bipartisan Senate bill would deliver, but in the absence of congressional action we will do what we can to most effectively enforce the law and discourage irregular migration,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement Thursday.
The Biden administration has faced unprecedented levels of migration along the southern border, including over two million migrant apprehensions in each of the past two years.
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In recent months, however, migrant crossings have plunged, bucking historical patterns that have seen migration soar in the spring. Last month, Border Patrol recorded nearly 129,000 migrant apprehensions, down from 137,000 in March, according to government data. U.S. officials have credited increased deportations and an immigration crackdown by Mexico for the surprising drop.
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