BJ’s Wholesale Club Shows How Warehouse-Club Supply Chains Are Evolving

In 2020, Logistics Viewpoints argued that BJ’s Wholesale Club was an underappreciated supply chain story. The company’s advantage was not e-commerce glamour. It was operational discipline: direct purchasing, cross-docking, limited SKU complexity, truckload buying, fast inventory turns, and no-frills store execution.Six years later, that argument still holds. But the BJ’s story has broadened.The original article explained why warehouse-club economics could outperform more comple