No, Sam has a membership system and sells more things, while IKEA is the main product of the public and sells more household items.

Sam member store has suddenly become a new fashion punching place, attracting bloggers from food shops to experience it. The 3-meter-wide aisle in front of the checkout counter is often crowded with customers queuing to check out, while the shopping cart is full of online celebrity roast chicken, online celebrity beef rolls, online celebrity crispy noodles and online celebrity durian Melaleuca cake.

as early as 1996, the first Sam member store landed in Shenzhen. But at that time, not to mention member stores, even Shangchao was not fully popularized in China, and China consumers had not been able to adapt to this emerging consumption format in terms of consumption habits and consumption ability. Therefore, the early storage supermarkets have experienced a very difficult period of time.

Metro, also an early player in the warehouse supermarket, opened its first store in Putuo District of Shanghai in 1996, but in 21, the membership system was cancelled.