Yes, they did change the recipe and there is no sourdough starter and the bread taste like a dull regular bread. Doesn't even look like it rose in the oven. Please bring back the old recipe. It was so good, doesn't sam's club have someone to sample the bread before they put it out on the market. Taking it back for a refund.

I have been a devout disciple of the unsliced sourdough loaf for years. Every week, like clockwork, I pilgrimage to the bakery section, select my faithful uncut boule, and bring it home to become the sturdy foundation for my kids' French toast. Thick, rustic slices that actually absorb the custard without turning to mush. A crust with character. A crumb with soul. Last visit, my holy grail was missing. In its place sat this pre-sliced impostor, shrink-wrapped like evidence at a crime scene. “Same bread, just convenient,” I told myself. The slices were thinner than ideal, sure, but how bad could it be? Oh, how wrong I was. How catastrophically, soul-crushingly wrong. This is not bread. This is a dense, pale brick of disappointment wearing sourdough cosplay. The texture is closer to damp particle board than anything fermented and baked with love. The flavor? Nonexistent. A faint whisper of “maybe wheat?” and then nothing. Just chewing. Endless, joyless chewing. It sits in the toaster like it's personally offended by heat, emerging somehow both rubbery and crumbly at the same time—an impressive feat of culinary betrayal. My children's French toast dreams have been ruined in their beds. The custard slides right off these sad, anemic sheets like they're coated in some sort of anti-absorption spell. I have been left with nothing but regret, a half-eaten loaf of shattered expectations, and the growing suspicion that someone in the bakery decided “good enough” was an acceptable standard. If you, like me, respect your bread, stick to the unsliced version. This sliced abomination is a worthless loaf of broken promises. One star. I'd give it zero if Sam would let me.

Apparently the whole, unsliced, actual sourdough loaves were replaced with this, boring plain white pre-sliced boules. Judging by the other reviews, no one is fooled by this cheapskate maneuver. Why do this other than to save a couple pennies? I'm not buying this any more.

The photo here is what the sliced sourdough bread used to look like. Now it does not and it also does not taste the same. Now it's kind of glorified white bread without the full sour dough taste of the past. Very disappointing. Sam's did sourdough bread so well and then changed recently to something far less in quality. I'd even sacrifice a little bit of size to get the old taste back. I hope this changes back soon or it's a pass from my family.

I'd give zero stars if I could! Sam's has changed the ingredients list in the sourdough bread. It is no longer actually sourdough. Now has no sourdough starter and tons of added, unnecessary ingredients that defeat the whole purpose of sourdough. The old, true sourdough recipe was the sole reason I would visit the store on almost a weekly basis. It really is a shame! Please change it back!

This new “sourdough” is not real sourdough. This is now a garbage bread that looks like any other. The ingredients list used to be short and sweet with only the essentials, now it's garbage. What a mistake they made with trying to quietly change the recipe.

This bread was the reason I would go to Sams so often. Never buying it again! I used to love it and bought it all the time. I noticed a difference a few weeks ago. Who ever had the idea to change vendors/ingredients has anything but regular costumers in mind. Hopefully enough bad reviews can bring the real bread back.

I'm not sure if the old sourdough was baked in store, but when I arrived at the store these loaves were frozen. And I noticed a new bag so I decided to look at the ingredients just in case and to my strong disappointment I found… enriched flour, bad oils and no starter. I was so impressed with the old recipe. It was fantastic… sigh - all good things never last…

After reading all the reviews of the "new recipe" sourdough bread, I was hoping they were wrong. I was a LONG time buyer of the "old recipe" bread and LOVED it. I somewhat agree with the reviews that it's not sourdough. Even so, it's a very good tasting bread. I do wish Sam's would go back to the old recipe, or the old supplier.

So sad that the old sourdough is no longer here. I took one look and knew something was off. This new "sourdough " is not sourdough. Please bring back the original recipe. My 8 year old daughter even said the bread was not the same and had changed. So sad bc it was really one of the best products we looked forward to buying multiple times a week. Recipe seemed to have changed starting early April 2026. Bread in picture is the new "sourdough."