B. J.'s, a shopping club based in Natick, Mass., will occupy 120,000 square feet of the ground floor.

They take ads in the magazines of the shopping clubs; they're not pushing it at a high level.

Besides Waldbaum's, Home Depot is preparing a site now, and shopping clubs, like Pricecostco, are lobbying for spots.

Wal-Mart, which is based in Bentonville, Ark., and has some 3,100 discount stores and shopping clubs in the United States, denied that it practiced any systemic discrimination.

When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932, housewives' shopping clubs were all the rage.

An online private shopping club is a members only shopping club, where members can buy goods at high discounts.

Private shopping clubs organise sales events for its members that typically last 2 to 6 days.

True private shopping clubs source their products only directly from the brands and don't buy liquidation stock from retailers.

However, they don't fulfill the by invitation only criteria and therefore are not classified as private shopping clubs.

The Good Deal Directory (£25 a year from 071 352 8976) lists bargains in places like factory shops, shopping clubs and cut-price stores.