BJ’s Wholesale Club

This place gets chaotic, but you have to keep in mind that it’s in the middle of flushing AND inside of Skyview Mall, where everyone goes to take advantage of the 2−3hrs of free parking.
There’s no cellphone signal in here. This is located in the basement of the mall.
Staff doesn’t seem too bad. There’s a great influx of customers, so expect the little old Asian ladies with their shopping carts. The store does not look like the best stocked one, but it has the things that I need.
Honestly, their toilet paper deals are not great.
You can find the similar deal on Amazon for the same price, about $ 0.50 a roll, and you can have that shipped to your door.
Last time I was there, I needed to buy butter on wholesale. lol It was a good deal (4 lbs for $ 12) for the store brand. My cookies were on fleet. Yes, I forgot my BJ’s card that time and had to borrow it from someone behind me and they were very kind about it.
Remember that BJ’s is no Cotsco when it comes to samples, so chill.
Restroom is gross and the food stall does not look welcoming, but it could be worse considering the location.

I picked up a BJs membership when I was living in Bensonhurst. Their Cropsey location is much better than this joke of a warehouse (Flushing). There’s supposed to be a General Manager here named Chin Lo, but apparently none of the employees claim to know who or where he is. Go figure. This warehouse constantly has only 3 — 4 registers staffed and the rest self-​checkout with no express lanes (even when the lines are wrapped around the aisles). The poor workers are understaffed. Self-​checkout machines routinely breakdown while harried staffers must solve the issue as the lines grow longer and longer. How corporate doesn’t know about this is a huge mystery. Today, was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I am not renewing my membership. The self checkout lines, though long, were faster than the manned registers but my self-​checkout kiosk ran out of receipt paper. It took the understaffed employees 20 minutes to print me out a receipt so I could leave the store. Seriously?! I alerted the team member of my predicament, and only 20 minutes later she was able to procure a receipt for me. Do you want to know why? Because cheap-​ass Chin Lo rather line his pocket than hire more employees. She was stuck between helping me and all the other self-​checkout customers as I watched one by one, all the self checkout machines become sentient and revolt against their human overlords by crashing. Chin Lo, you’re a horrible general manager. Let me show you how it’s done.

I have a love-​hate relationship with this BJs.
Pro:
–Located at Skyview Mall. Convenient to get here by public transportation. For drivers, there’s free parking at the mall for a couple of hours.
–Good produce selection. I love buying the fresh organic salads and fresh fruit.
–Getting free food samples.
–This BJs has self-​checkout.
Cons:
–From my experience, membership service counter is so slow. I usually see 2 staff on duty.
–Sometimes the items that I’m looking for aren’t in stock.
–The checkout lines are extremely long during the weekends, including self-​checkout. You can expect to wait 15 – 20 minutes on the line. (Recommend coming on a weekday. I came here on a Friday once and it’s less crowded.)
–The food concession area is dirty.

Saturday afternoon and I found myself in BJ’s starving! That is a bad thing around here since in this shopping center they have VERY slim pickins as far as places to eat! I am still confused and kind of mad that they took out the 5 guys that was here right next to chuck e cheese! What? Why?!! Now that leaves shoppers with the choice of a subway sandwich, some Asian restaurant, and… the dreaded Applebee’s –_​_​_​_​–
So, the BJ’s shopping HAD to get done for our Father’s Day cookout so we figured, «just this once lets go to their café»…yea just this once and probably never again!
Hubby was excited to see some Perdue steamed bags of spicy wings, and I settled for a greasy paper thin slice of pizza. Could’ve been way better but I suppose there was some room for it to be worse right? We were desperate. Anyway the issue wasn’t so much the food but the FILTH in which customers were expected to sit next to, on top of, and around! I have honestly never seen anything like it, no upkeep, and absolutely no fukks were given either! Sorry but come on! Would it kill someone to take out the trash, mop a bit (there was a leak in the overflowing garbage can) if someone would’ve fallen or hurt themselves, then what?
Also, it wouldn’t be so terrible if one was able to just avoid the area, but the garbage was sharing the space with the condiments, and the utensils! Absolutely unacceptable. An employee of the café came by, ignored the messes around her, and just came to refill the utensils. it was unreal. My husband was standing next to her as he needed some napkins and was waiting for her to finish. I heard him mention to her how someone maybe should clean up the garbage spilling over on to the floor and table, she ignored him. I wouldn’t have known he even had addressed her had I not witnessed it myself! No reaction just get right on stocking and then walked away. Again, sorry to bother you at work Little Miss.
I looked around the place and they seemed to be fully staffed, cashiers, stockers, sample makers, receipt checkers, heck even a glorified «security guard» who I only witnessed chatting it up with the greeter. And yet no extra cash in the budget for clean up crew? Or at least one solid manager to delegate the duties? I guess not. Indifferent, dirty, I can only imagine what their homes look like.

The worst customer service people on earth. I bought a gift for a family member, they did not like/​want the product, so I go to return said product. Brand new, never been opened, sealed box, legit receipt with the product itemized on it and it’s before the 90 day return-​by date. Should be simple right? Well, you know how you go thru customs border control upon returning from an overseas trip and you’re jetlagged and they ask you a million questions like you’re a criminal for wanting to return to your own country? Well, this BJs customer service desk experience is basically the same. Sure, the prices are great, but don’t you dare try to return anything! I went on a weekday, early afternoon to beat the after school/​after work rush. Waited about 20 mins, 3 customers in front of me, 2 workers of which one decided to just leave which made the remaining worker pissed so she decided to stop and chit chat on her cell. Luckily a manager shows up, but it took another 20 mins just to process my return because, well, the manager only spoke Spanish! And I’m sorry I only speak English, so more time wasted on translating. Fun!

Every time I come in here, I get scared that they’ll kick me out because I don’t have a membership card, but they haven’t done that yet so it’s okay. It’s a really nice place to browse and their prices are really cheap, but I haven’t bought anything yet.

Come here if you want to get arrested.
This store, like all BJs in NYC, hires NYPD officers as security details. This BJs no control over their officers. In 3 years I’ve been twice wrongly threatened with being arrested by the officers.
Today the store closes at 8 PM. I tried walking to the dairy and bread section in the back at 7:46 PM, and a female cop was telling every customer walking into the back, including me that the store is closed and to keep walking to the door. I then told her its not 8 PM yet, and she pulled out her handcuffs and told me «the store is closed, don’t make me cuff you». I then left the area to get a store manager. I discussed the incident with 2 managers, one was called Esther. At first the managers denied the cop worked for BJs. I said the cop isn’t here for free. They then admitted the cop works for BJs, but this store didn’t hire her, but the regional Loss Prevention assigned that cop here, and the manager wrote an email to LP, and that the particular cop will not be again at this store, so it is «safe» for me to shop here. She also reviewed the security tape and «saw the incident» and that another customer also complained to her a few minutes earlier. The manager also said the detail cops can’t arrest anyone without the managers approval, which I believe is false. BJs hires the cops, since cops have sovereign immunity from all lawsuits, almost unlimited search and arrest powers compared to a security guard’s citizens arrest. Today, that cop, if I didn’t leave the dairy section, wouldve arrested and charged me with disorderly conduct and obstructing government administration, for failing to obey a police order, regardless of what the manager says. The manager can’t get me unarrested either, since a cop is always a cop 1^st, and a BJs employee 2^nd.
2 years earlier, a male greeter and the male officer at the entrance were carding people for membership. I told them «my family member has the membership card and I have to get in», the greeter then told me, if I enter, he will direct the officer to arrest me for trespassing. The officer stepped over next to the greeter crossed his arms and nodded but didn’t say anything. I then called my family member who was inside, and she came with the store manager to the entrance. The greeter told the manager that he was «following policy» since I didn’t say my family member was already inside. I countered that it isn’t the stores business on privacy grounds for me to tell an employee where my family member is the store (which I dont even know) or their name, and making my senior citizen family member come to the front door of BJs to let me in past the officer or else shop alone (and lift very heavy things) is discrimination. The greeter was argumentative with store manager and wouldn’t back down that he was correct in denying me since I didn’t show him a card, and the store manager told him to go away back to his post and he left. She then told me and my family member that we are welcome to shop here, and the next time I am denied entry at the door to ask for the store manager to come to the front door and I don’t need to have my family member with membership card who is already inside come to the front door. I did see the male greeter a few more times over the next couple of months, but he never spoke to me again and never stopped me again, and I haven’t ever seen any customers get carded at the door since at Flushing BJs.
Flushing BJs has a nasty trick. Their reverse vending machines in the parking lot are always off. If you ask low level BJs worker about the bottle machines, they will send you to Target upstairs. Someone at BJs figured out that the homeless bottle collectors with their carts are costing money, so if they shut off the power to the bottle machines, the homeless will go somewhere else with their bottles. To get back at this policy, I take my bottles to the BJs customer service desk and return the bottles by handing the garbage bag of cans over the counter. The CS person used to count the bottles one by one before giving me the refund, but they now just ask «how many do you have?» and dont count them. Maybe they remember my face, since I’m probably the only person to do this. YMMV. Since BJs Flushing always agreed to take the bottles over the counter at the CS desk, I can’t report this store to NYS. The bottle machines are for the store’s convenience and to save time for the store’s staff. They are not required by law. There is a small «New York Bottle Bill of Rights» on each CS desk cash registers if this store gives you a problem. For reference
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The parking problem other reviews talk about was fixed. When SVM 1^st opened, it was 2 hours free for 2 months until new years, then 1^st hour is $ 2 – 3. Then 1 year later it was 3 hours free and its been that way for many years.

Is every single BJ’s in NYC only accessible through some pedestrian unfriendly way? I HATE that. The crowd was also extreme here but overall, an okay location if you’re in the area. The store itself was fine & got what I needed. It’s just a pain that you can go into the nearby shopping center to get to Target & they have signs going here only for you to have to risk your life traversing the parking garage to get to the entrance.

Ok, I’ve never like going to this place (I always go to the one in College Point) but then I thought why not, it’s closer and is indoor. I walk in, grab my things with my cart and when I’m done I go on the line to pay. First of all the cashier who was a woman don’t know what her name was, was acting nasty and just because she passed an incorrect item and I said that’s not my’n, she rolled her eyes and was talking to the other man in front of her saying how stressed I just made her. I felt like slapping her, because she’s stressed just because SHE passed a wrong item. I got over it and when my 200 $ shopping items were proceeded, I give them my ebt card to pay she goes with a mad and aggravated voice «didn’t you hear in the announcement that were not taking ebt». Sure I can hear an announcement which barely was high enough for me to hear, including having to hear it over all those people. She then asked if I can put the items back and I said «no you’ll have to do it» I’m never coming back to this place, I regret not going to the one in College Point.

If I can give a zero star or negative, I will definitely do it. The people there are really ride. I wont fucking go there again in my life, I swear.
At first, I was on my way to Target, then I saw this shop. I spoke to myself: «whats this, let me go around and see.» As I tried to get into that shop, a black guy asked me impolitely: «Do you have a membership card?». So, I was thinking «What? I need a membership card to shop here?» I stepped back and then the guy spoke again «Come in».
So I tried to enter the shop again. Another Chinese guy about probably around 50 asked another question «You walk here?» Of course I walked there. May I possibly drive directly into your shop?
I got in, walked around a little bit and saw nothing of my interest. As I want to get out, the chinese guy stopped me. He pointed to the Checkout place and ordered me «that way!» I thought there maybe is another exit in that direction. But it turned out that there is not!
I tried to get out of this crazy place again. This time, the Chinese guy stopped me once again! «I need to check your backpack «Fuck him! So rude! Is that how should these people treat customers?
But I did what he asked. And I swear, I will never go there again! I suggest anyone reading this: Dont go this place, unless u want to get treated like a criminal with no respect or right!

BJs is very similar to Costco in a sense of selling wholesale items but the difference is that they also sell retail sized items as well.
Placed in a large warehouse just like their competitor, the aisles are large with product stacked high up on these industrial shelves. This store has just about everything you could possibly want, from home and office items to food items to business items. They also offer wine and liquor which is separate from the store. BJs sells many name brands such as Tyson, Oscar Myers. Tropicana, Nature’s Valley and many more. Their very own brand name is HarvestLand, they have some pretty tasty products from this line. I prefer BJs because they have much more items I like, it feels good to buy in bulk at a great price. It last long enough and you’re getting a bargain, who wouldn’t love that.
To shop here you do need to purchase a membership which could run you the least of $ 50 for one year, this includes entry and mail-​in coupons. I think you do receive better offers if you’re an executive member. This is really great for those of you who want to purchase bulk sizes and save more on great brands.

The secret to this location is to come during the week. As with most super store shopping the weekend is when this place is swamped.
A major complaint I have about this place is the stocking of the water and some of the areas is never complete while shopping and often impedes the customer experience. Some of the workers sit there chatting instead of stocking the areas. Shouldn’t this be done before customers enter the store? or much more efficiently? It would be
Besides my issue with their restocking of products the store is on par with their cleanliness and service in other areas.

Parking available free for 3 hours

I got a membership at BJ’s because Groupon was having a sale. I paid $ 35 dollars and got a $ 25 gift card to use at BJ’s.
I came here on a Sunday to get some toothpaste, laundry detergent and Clorox wipes. There was a million people there and the lines were super long. I think next time, I will go on a weekday instead of weekend. The parking is free for the first three hours, so you could go to BJ’s, Target, Best Buy and others.
BJ’s offers free samples of their food products, so you can try some of their products before you buy it. They have a huge selection of items to buy which include food, clothes, books, movies, technology, and daily items (shampoo, conditioner, soap, laundry detergent). They also send you coupons once a month, so you get items for discounted prices. I brought a set of 4 Colgate toothpastes for $ 10.
It gets really crowded during the weekend, so I suggest going on the weekday and use self check out, it faster.

Convenient location with free parking in the middle of flushing… However be warned that random non members still get into the store and you may be approached by one to scan your membership card for them… a little annoying. The layout of the store is typical of any other BJ Wholesale. The cashiers and customer service desk employees move at a slower pace than the College Point BJ’s.
If you’re in flushing and need to do some grocery shopping just head straight to skyview and park. you get 3 hours of free parking to shop.

This BJ’s isnt as good as the one on 20^th ave. Everyone seems miserable to be there. The customers the workers. The TV selection is horrible and some are the same price as the Best Buys upstairs!

I visit this BJ maybe once every month and to me this place is okay and convenient for Flushing residents. What is really attractive about this place is that there is not much crowd and no long line! Other BJs have problem with customers carrying bunch of stuff in their carts waiting on line forever. Be happy, this one does not make you wait!
Pretty well stocked and nicely organized stuffs are what makes me keep coming here. Now, FINALLY, they have free parking policy for customers so there is no frustrated customers paying extra parking fee just to save money shopping at this BJ.
I think over time, this place will eventually attract more customers even it is kind of a hidden gem at this point. Hope there won;t be a long line then as it is now haha.
Well one downside is the customer service crew at the entrance can be a bit cranky sometimes so just bear with them when you desperately need to speak to them. Other than that I like this place!

Dear BJ’s,
Why the hell are you even charging $ 3 for parking?
No business for you from me.
Making a u-​turn to College Point.
Goodbye.
Yours,
Hater.

This is the closest BJs to me via walking distance. 3 stars cuz it’s new and shiny!
ENTERING VIA THE NORTH SIDE
If you want to enter via the Roosevelt Avenue entrance, there’s still a lot of scaffolding and construction going on it the sidewalk. You keep walking until you hit an indoor parking garage entrance, walk inside, bear right, and take the elevator… down (I think). Afterward, you’ll see the BJs entrance.
THE INTERIOR
New, shiny, clean. Not much people in the morning. Smaller than the College Point one. Sample ladies around during the weekends. I don’t how long it’ll be before it stops being new and shiny… Restrooms straight down past the checkout all the way at the corner.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
The people there don’t seem to know what they’re doing. I was made to sign up for corporate discount membership for my mom (–_​-​;;) and my first time getting a ID was confusing. My sister got pissed since she has membership and said that I was suppose to get coupons and stuff which the guy didn’t give me. (I did as the guy «is that all?» and he said yes.) Maybe it was a Saturday morning and everyone was groggy. Maybe it was his first day. Maybe he didn’t actually work there and was chilling at the counter with his friend. I don’t know. My sis was just pissed because I didn’t get my free bananas coupon and she bought all her stuff already. YMMV.
TL;DR
If you’re a BJs member, go to the College Point one. I don’t think they’re ready for customers yet.

I’m a regular at BJ’s customer so yesterday I decided to check out the new location in Flushing and pickup a couple of items.
This BJ’s is located on the ground floor of the huge Condo complex off of College Point just south of Roosevelt Ave.
The place is crawling with construction workers and trucks so it was quite hazardous visiting on the weekday.
The BJ’s is like any other BJ’s BUT what ticked me off was the lack of parking.
The only parking is the regular resident parking which made me paid $ 3.00 for my ½ hours of shopping.
There is no street parking because of all the construction.
The $ 3 did allowed me to park the whole day but I only need 30 minutes. The sign said $ 0.96 per hour but it is $ 3 to get in.
I asked the people inside BJ’s about this parking situation and they said there is no planning for a separate parking for BJ’s customers.
So why do I want to shopping here when there are two other BJ’s near by? (Middle Village and College Point).
OK, so I tried it once now I will go back to my other BJ’s.