Price Club Plans to Expand Oxnard Store

Price Club will add 15,000 square feet and several new departments to its Oxnard store, but the retailer denies that the expansion is intended as a salvo against the scheduled opening this fall of a nearby Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club.

“Oxnard is one of our best locations,” said Deborah Davis, spokeswoman for parent company Price Co. “We had this expansion planned before Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club made their announcement.”

The Price Club addition will bring the membership warehouse store to 136,000 square feet and will include an “expanded computer tech center”--a feature that should be of interest to the business-oriented Sam’s Club.

The Price Club project is scheduled to be completed in October.