What Pittsburgh’s next, new big box retailer expects to bring to local shoppers and competitive landscape

PITTSBURGH — Amid the ongoing decline of department stores and a consumer shift to e-commerce, it’s not easy to remember the last time a major retailer the scale of BJ’s Wholesale Club (NYSE: BJ) has worked to enter the Pittsburgh market.

Yet in a market of long-established big box competitors such as Wal-Mart and Target and a grocery market still dominated by Giant Eagle, the New England membership club is teeing up two new stores in the Pittsburgh area amid a Covid-19 pandemic that has helped to fuel a record year for the company.

As it also works its way through the approval in Ross Township to establish a new store at the Block Northway in the North Hills, BJ’s Wholesale Club also presented its proposal to establish a new store at Newbury Market in South Fayette to the township’s planning commission recently.

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