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Yeah, Consolidated Stores bought out the McFrugals/Pic-N-Save chain and converted them all. To be fair, Big Lots is just a larger Dollar General these days. They rarely have any closeout merchandise, if any at all. That seemed to change about 2005 when they cut a bunch of stores. I guess it's more profitable to sell chinese-made garbage and crap furniture since Valuable City has gone upscale.

The Ollie's chain out of Pennsylvania has kind of taken over that capacity, that store looks like the junk-laden flea market-esque stores that Odd Lots/Big Lots used to be.

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Okay, thanks for explanation. I stopped a few times while passing through small city in rural area about that era. Am really picky about not buying unnecessary or clunky stuff but found some great deals on name brand, slightly unusual, items. Last 2 times I went there had really gone downhill, with empty shelves and hundreds of duplicate items beginning to grow dust. Was gone within a year or so.