BJ's Wholesale Club Incorporated operates in the Variety stores sector. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. (BJ's) is a warehouse club operator in the eastern United States. As of January 29, 2011, the Company operated 189 BJ's warehouse clubs, 103 of which operate gasoline stations, in 15 states. Its revenues are derived from the sale of a range of food and general merchandise items, the sale of gasoline and from membership fees. As of January 29, 2011, it operated 167 full-sized warehouse clubs that averaged approximately 114,000 square feet and 22 smaller format warehouse clubs that averaged approximately 73,000 square feet. The smaller format clubs are designed to serve markets whose population is not sufficient to support a full-sized warehouse club or whose population density does not provide adequate real estate space for a full-sized club. Included in its smaller format portfolio are three 85,000 square foot clubs. Including space for parking, a typical full-sized BJ's club requires 13 to 14 acres of land. In September 2011, Beacon Holding Inc. acquired BJ's In our complete report available for purchase the company is compared to: Dollar General Corporation, Family Dollar Stores, Inc. and Dollar Tree, Incorporation.