Big Lots - Page 3

AngelPuppy1 · ‎03-13-2010

I will have to try and find the list of closing stores. I hope ours is not. I shop there regularly and always buy my paper towels there. It's such an interesting store --- so many fun things. I have shopped at Big Lots for years and years. I hope they can make a go of it. It would be a great loss for our small town.

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gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

@AngelPuppy1 wrote:
I will have to try and find the list of closing stores. I hope ours is not. I shop there regularly and always buy my paper towels there. It's such an interesting store --- so many fun things. I have shopped at Big Lots for years and years. I hope they can make a go of it. It would be a great loss for our small town.

@AngelPuppy1 - I'm not a huge Big Lots shopper, but certainly go in there occasionally. The 2 stores near enough to me are both closing.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

Estellee · ‎07-12-2011

2 stores in my area, one is closing.

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

"They'll focus on the most profitable locations, which are many."

This is a pet peeve of mine with stores and chains. Any store that's making any profit is a good store. I don't care if it's just turning a dollar in profit, it's a dollar more than you'd have had otherwise. We've lost multiple stores in my area that were profitable but "underperforming" and were closed.

If a store is making you money, it's a good store. Closing profitable though underperforming stores just drives me crazy. Company executives think they can focus more on the better-performing stores and make them even better. Uh, no. It doesn't work. It's never worked.

Any store making you any profit is a good store and should be kept open. If you focus on only keeping open your "best performing" stores you will end up with no stores. It's popular

corporate talk to focus on the best-performing stores, but it's stupid. In the extreme. Any store that's making a profit is a good store.

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Rockycoast · ‎03-02-2016

Have not been in a Big Lots before. There must not be any around us or they closed down years ago. We have Ocean State Job lots near us. Have been in a few times but I just don’t shop the discount stores to begin with.

deeva · ‎03-09-2010

There are three stores near me, two are closing.

beckyb1012 · ‎03-09-2010

@SharkE wrote:
I went to get a Arby's roast beef sandwich in Amarillo, Tx they closed !

Gees ! Think they might be another one on another side of town. Don't know if it's closed or not.

Man, stores are here today and gone tomorrow !

Can't afford BBQ any more. Cost 11.00 a sandwich.
Ribs are 19 for half rack and 35 for full rack !
Just have to make your own I guess.

We only have one Arby's in my city and I am always afraid they will shut down. I love them, just went this past Friday for dinner. We have a Dudley's barbecue and through their app they offer many great deals for members. But barbecue is outrageous in their prices now. The other barbecue places in town I just do not go to when I can get a sandwich at Dudley's for $4.99. Add a rib to the order for $3.00.

"Live frugally, but love extravagantly."

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

i havent been in our BIG LOTS in years.

i could rarely find anything in there that i wanted or needed.

it was good when one of my daughters went away to college. we found a lot of things there, including a mattress that worked well for a dorm room.

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

I only shopped Big Lots for holiday decor.😊 They almost always had cute outdoor display figures, and nice faux foliage. There was a time when they had nice bathroom rug sets, but the quality had gone down. Ours closed last year.🙁

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Trailrun23 · ‎05-31-2022

The last time I went into a Big Lots the staff was wearing hazmat suits.....and there were a lot of the employees in the food section....no one offered any explanation and the store was still open, no signs posted....I left and never went back. I used to in there for seasonal decor ;really nice seasonal pillows similar to PB and some other items.

Many fastfood places have closed near us and have moved north where all the new development is happening...in exchange, that area is send us their bobcats, coyotes, and other wildlife where they are destroying their habitats.

I saw that Conn's is closing down also; the big bannr on it said going out of businees. We live in an older part of town so are losing many of the places we depended upon for shopping. Even a lot of the Dollar Tree stores are closing; I will miss those because Dollar Tree was my go-to for greeting cards, gift bags, and several other things I could not find elsewhere for the price.