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Few questions generate more passionate disagreement among warehouse club shoppers than the Costco vs Sam's Club debate — partly because both clubs are genuinely good at different things, partly because the answer is more household-specific than most comparison guides acknowledge, and partly because the competitive landscape between these two behemoths shifted meaningfully in 2025 and 2026 in ways that most older comparison articles have not caught up with. In the battle of Co