Overview
Sam's Club is an American warehouse club retailer and Walmart subsidiary that operates one of the world's largest fleets of autonomous floor cleaning and inventory scanning robots. Nearly 600 Brain corp-powered autonomous floor scrubbers (manufactured by Tennant Co.) are deployed across Sam's Club locations nationwide, equipped with Inventory Scan towers for shelf auditing.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Scale
Stage
Parent
Robot fleet
Robot manufacturer
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Sam's Club has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Brain Corp1× joint
- 2Tennant Co.1× joint
Most recent
- Sam's Club x Brain Corp x Tennant2020-10-01with Brain Corpoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Latriece Watkins President and CEOsecondary-verified
Former / Previously (1)
- Sam Walton Foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Sam's Club.
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Recent coverage
Sam's Club in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Sam's Club has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Sam's Club x Brain Corp x Tennant2020-10-01with Brain Corpoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Brain Corp1× joint
- 2Tennant Co.1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Sam's Club x Brain Corp x TennantwithBrain Corp,Tennant Co.deployment2020-10-01operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Sam's Club’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipSam's Club x Brain Corp x Tennant
2020-10-01Sam's Club deployed nearly 600 autonomous floor scrubbers manufactured by Tennant Co. and powered by Brain Corp's AI operating system across its nationwide warehouse club locations, equipped with Inventory Scan towers for shelf auditing.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 11, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-07
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-07
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Sam's Club.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Sam's Club from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Big-Box Briefing: Sam’s Club targets high-retention members with new tire benefit
The latest addition to Sam's Club's most premium membership aims to attract some of its stickiest members.
Walmart Tap to Pay: Contactless Apple Pay is finally coming to Walmart
Walmart and Sam's Club stores will soon accept contactless "Tap to Pay" payment methods, including Apple Pay.
Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay
Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select"…
Walmart extends Scintilla data platform to Sam’s Club
Sam's Club merchants and brands will soon be able to use Walmart's data analytics platform to better understand and predict member behavior.
Sam's Club meal kit feeds a family for under $16 as shoppers seek affordable dinners
Sam's Club's $16 Member's Mark Chicken Shawarma Kit aims to solve the busy family dinner dilemma, but shoppers have raised concerns about portions.
Sam's Club Promo Codes and Membership Deals for September 2026
Save on bulk groceries, household essentials, and electronics with a verified Sam's Club promo code or membership discount.
Niche brands are finding online reach through Sam's Club
Sam's Club offers niche, local brands for their stores. The chain is using its scale to connect smaller offerings with members across the US.
Big-Box Briefing: Walmart takes over parts of Sam’s Club’s operations
Over the past couple of years, Walmart has been taking more control of Sam's Club from the corporate level, from supply chain to e-commerce technology and retail media.
Sam's Club Finalizes National Deployment of Inventory Scan Robots
Sam's Club finalized the national deployment of Brain Corp-powered Inventory Scan towers on nearly 600 autonomous floor scrubbers, making Brain Corp the world's largest supplier…
Sam's Club Deploying Autonomous Robots
Sam's Club added 372 autonomous floor scrubbers manufactured by Tennant Co. and powered by Brain Corp's AI operating system to its fleet.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/sams-club.md
- RSS feed: /companies/sams-club/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/5f808be6-d774-496e-9760-6664e3334ced
- Revision history: /companies/sams-club/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Sam's Club against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026