BJ's is great but all of these buying clubs have different size stores with great selection depending on the location. The Sam's Club in The Villages is tiny compared to those located near large metropolitan areas.
I'm hoping the BJ's is a larger store but I wouldn't be surprised to see smaller store here.
The fact that The Villages is located so far from a major highway is one of the reason's that companies build smaller stores here.
The Villages is larger than Leesburg, Fruitland Park, Summerfield, Bellevue and Ocala combined, but the Sam's Club in Ocala is much larger than the one in Lady Lake. The reason is that the Ocala store is two minuted from I-75 which means that it is accessible to far more people.
I find the 441-27 location a bit strange for BJ's. 466A would be a more central location and with a bit of forward thinking route 44 will eventually be the center of The Villages and the area to the south is much closer to both I-75 and the turnpike than the northern area.
But I'm sure that BJ's corporate offices did all of the demographic studies and determined 441-17 to be a good location.
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