Sam's Club Slashes 11,200 Prices Jobs, Dramtically Alters "Samples" Experience Foster Kamer · 01/24/10 03:45PM Sam's Club—which is owned by Wal-Mart, which is basically one of the more awful corporations in America—just announced 11,200 job cuts. What's surprising is that those cuts are coming from an essential Sam's Club experience: samples.