12 Sam’s Club Items Retirees Need To Buy Ahead of Thanksgiving

It’s beginning to look a lot like savings at Sam’s Club! Starting Oct. 30 through Dec. 1, Sam’s Club members will be able to shop for thousands of items, including groceries, personal care essentials and holiday décor, at sale prices to fit every budget.

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GOBankingRates is helping retirees narrow down their shopping choices with 12 recommendations to purchase before Thanksgiving. Here you’ll find everything you need for the upcoming Thanksgiving and winter holidays along with a few items eligible for your 2024 FSA dollars. 

Do you plan to add these 12 items to your Sam’s Club shopping list?

• Price: $7.98

Whether you’re making a green bean casserole this Thanksgiving or plan to cook another fall-friendly recipe, keep a bulk package of Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup in your pantry. This eight-count pack is $1 off its regular price of $8.98.

What if you don’t tend to use cream of mushroom soup all that frequently? Consider shopping the sale on Campbell’s cream of chicken soup. Each eight-count package of soup will be $1 off its original price Oct. 30 through Dec. 1.

• Price: $5.98

From casserole dishes to standalone sides, no Turkey Day is complete without Del Monte cut green beans. Sam’s Club members receive $1.80 in instant savings off the regular price of $7.78 for an eight-count package.

• Price: $8.88

Stock up on Kerrygold salted butter sticks if you have big baking and cooking plans coming up. Regularly $10.88, the sticks are $2 off for Sam’s Club members. 

This discount is valid on Kerrygold six-pack salted butter sticks and Kerrygold three-pack unsalted butter blocks.

• Price: $7.12

Prep the Thanksgiving bread roll basket with ease and save when you shop Pillsbury crescent rolls. Sam’s Club members receive $2 off the original price of $9.12. 

Each box contains 32 crescent rolls. This means shoppers pay only 22 cents per roll. 

• Price: $8.98

Keep grocery expenses low in the days leading up to Thanksgiving when you shop Marie Callender’s chicken pot pies. Regularly $12.98, the pot pies are $4 off for Sam’s Club members.

At the newly discounted price, this means retirees spend only about $1.12 for each chicken pot pie inside the eight-count package.

• Price: $8.98

Maintain excellent gut health during the holiday season when you shop the variety pack of Activia probiotic yogurt at Sam’s Club. Members receive $2 instant savings off the regular price of $10.98.

Each box contains 24 individually packaged yogurts — eight strawberry, eight black cherry and eight peach.

• Price: $18.28

It’s a win-win to shop for Vicks Dayquil and NyQuil LiquiCaps for severe cough, cold and flu relief at Sam’s Club before Thanksgiving. 

Members receive $5 instant savings off their purchase. This product is also FSA and HSA eligible, which means retirees can put these benefits towards these essentials before they expire.

• Price: $8.98

Add a box of Crest complete + Scope outlast ultra toothpaste to your Sam’s Club shopping cart for massive savings. Members receive $2.50 off their purchase of this five-count pack.

At the new sale price, this comes out to paying about $1.80 per 6.3-ounce toothpaste tube. In comparison, Target’s prices for the same toothpaste brand are $4.19 each for a 5.4-ounce tube.

• Price: $15.98

Keep skin hydrated throughout the dry winter months when you shop the sale on Aquaphor advanced therapy healing ointment. 

Sam’s Club members receive $2 off the original price of $17.98. This means shoppers pay about $4 for each of the four ointment tubes. Keep a few available at home, in handbags or inside car glove compartments.

• Price: $9.88

Dawn platinum liquid dish soap provides more than enough dish soap for all of your post-Thanksgiving scrubbing and cleaning needs. Sam’s Club members receive $2 instant savings on the regular price of $11.88 for each 90-ounce container.

• Price: $7.48

Get ready for the holiday cookie swap, or a baking afternoon with the grandkids, when you shop for Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix. 

Inside every box are five packages of sugar cookie mix, which comes out to spending about $1.50 per cookie mix. Add an egg and butter, bake and decorate delicious cookies to enjoy or share with loved ones.

• Price: $49.96

Deck the halls with the Member’s Mark decorated wreath at Sam’s Club. Each 32-inch wreath is available in flocked and classic and comes pre-lit with 70 warm white LED lights. Four AA batteries are also included, along with a timer function. 

After seeing how quickly many of the Member’s Mark fall harvest décor pieces sold out this year, we recommend getting a jump on shopping for Christmas décor ahead of Thanksgiving.