{"id":255539,"date":"2026-04-18T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255539\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:24:07","slug":"bjs-wholesale-prepares-to-open-first-texas-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255539\/","title":{"rendered":"BJ&#8217;s Wholesale prepares to open first Texas location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts-based grocery will open a club in Forney on April 24, with several more to come in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>FORNEY, Texas \u2014 This article was originally published in the Dallas Business Journal. Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dallas\/news\/2026\/04\/17\/bjs-wholesale-announces-opening-date-for-forney.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">original article and more business content here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of BJ&#8217;s Wholesale Club in Texas is nearing, as the Massachusetts-based grocery store announced its Forney location will open April 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Forney store is the chain&#8217;s 264th club but first in the Lone Star State. The big-box chain has plans to open three more locations in North Texas \u2014 in Waxahachie, southwest Fort Worth and Grand Prairie \u2014 in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Eddy, chairman and CEO of BJ&#8217;s Wholesale Club, called its Texas expansion a milestone for the company and that its leaders have been &#8220;energized by the enthusiasm we&#8217;ve seen in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BJ\u2019s new gas location, at 11150 E. U.S. Highway 80, will offer members gas at $2 per gallon for one day only on April 22 from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The promotional price applies to regular gas and has a 30-gallon limit.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dallas\/news\/2026\/04\/17\/bjs-wholesale-announces-opening-date-for-forney.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Massachusetts-based grocery will open a club in Forney on April 24, with several more to come in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-255539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}