Sam's Club Member Access Platform (MAP) now offers ‘true closed-loop attribution for both online and offline sales’

Sam's Club, a division of Walmart and a membership warehouse club, reports that advertisers can now attribute in-club purchases to their search ads.

This, it claims, means Sam’s Club is among the first and possibly the only retail media platform to connect search and sponsored product ads to offline sales.

Because of the real-time nature of consumer search, advertisers have had longstanding challenges attributing sales to specific campaigns. In-store attribution was especially difficult.

Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP) has real-time, first-party omnichannel data on member transactions, including in-club, in-app and web.

"Sam's Club MAP is opening up a new era of transparency and efficiency in advertising," says Lex Josephs, Vice President and General Manager at Sam's Club Member Access Platform.

"Now, because of our unique knowledge of our members, we’re able to offer true closed-loop attribution for both online and offline sales. This gives advertisers unmatched visibility into the results of their search and sponsored product campaigns at a time when they need to make fewer resources go further."

Georgia Pacific, a Sam’s Club supplier and advertiser on the MAP platform, is using in-club attribution to drive greater value from its campaigns.

“With hybrid shopping as the new norm, consumers’ increasing use of search to plan for shopping in brick-and-mortar locations will enable us to seamlessly integrate physical trips and online shopping experiences. This integration allows us to power digitally enabled sales in-club, which is a game changer,” says Paras Shah, Director of Omnichannel Shopper Marketing at Georgia Pacific.

“There’s a huge group of our members who see a search ad online or on their phone when shopping but purchase the product in-club. Previously, it was not possible for our advertisers to connect the in-club purchase to their online ads to know what drove sales,” says Tim Simmons, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Sam’s Club.

“With our new attribution model, advertisers can understand what’s motivating purchases across all channels accurately, especially for search ads.”

In-club attribution is available now for all Sam’s Club advertisers who have live sponsored products campaigns.