This week, home discount retail chain Big Lots will open dozens of additional stores, marking the culmination of the beloved brand’s dramatic turnaround after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late last year. Heres what you need to know about Junes Big Lots store reopenings.
Big Lots bankruptcy was expected to be the end
In December 2024, Big Lots announced that it had filed for bankruptcy and would be closing all of its roughly 800 locations. But in a surprising turn of events, the chain was saved from completely going out of business after another discount retail chain operator, Variety Wholesalers, swept in and agreed to buy 219 Big Lots locations from liquidator Gordon Brothers.
Variety Wholsalers, which also owns discount retail chains including Bargain Town and Super Dollar, said it would not only keep the 219 stores alive, but that it would operate them under the Big Lots brand, after a period of renovation and re-merchandising.
Prior Big Lots reopenings
Variety Wholesalers said it would reopen the 219 Big Lots stores it acquired in four waves, with the first beginning in April. Heres how many stores Big Lots opened in each prior wave:
First wave: nine stores across six states in April
Second wave: 54 stores across 12 states in early May
Third wave: 78 stores across 13 states in mid-May
Now, Big Lots will be commencing its fourth wave of store openings.
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78 Big Lots fourth wave June reopenings
Big Lots fourth wave of store reopenings will happen this week, with 78 stores opening across nine states. The planned opening date is Thursday, June 5. �
The states with the most store reopenings in the fourth wave include North Carolina, with 22 locations reopening; Ohio, with 13 locations reopening; and Pennsylvania, with 11 stores reopening.
Here is the full Big Lots store reopening list for June:
Florida
6247 Highway 90, Milton, FL 32570
2384 Commercial Way, Spring Hill, FL 34606
3401 13th St Ste 100, St. Cloud, FL 34769
843 W Bloomingdale Ave, Brandon, FL 33511
3048 E College Ave, Ruskin, FL 33570
13970 N Cleveland Ave, North Ft. Myers, FL 33903
4901 Palm Beach Blvd Ste 230, Fort Myers, FL 33905
Georgia
127 Commerce Ave, LaGrange, GA 30241
3111 Highway 278 NW, Covington, GA 30014
13 Lester Rd Ste C, Statesboro, GA 30458
Kentucky
3000 Scottsville Rd, Bowling Green, KY 42104
North Carolina
125 Weaver Blvd, Weaverville, NC 28787
273 Franklin Plaza Dr, Franklin, NC 28734
1176 Russ Ave, Waynesville, NC 28786
1639 US Highway 74A Byp, Spindale, NC 28160
1450 Andrews Rd, Murphy, NC 28906
1251 Burkemont Ave, Morganton, NC 28655
711 E Innes St, Salisbury, NC 28144
280 Concord Pkwy N, Concord, NC 28027
720 NC 24 27 Byp E, Albemarle, NC 28001
950 S Cannon Blvd Ste A, Kannapolis, NC 28083
1677 Westchester Dr, High Point, NC 27262
2531 Eastchester Dr, High Point, NC 27265
630 Lakestone Commons Ave, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526
2950 S Horner Blvd, Sanford, NC 27332
1371 N Sandhills Blvd, Aberdeen, NC 28315
1664 S Main St Ste B, Laurinburg, NC 28352
520 Berne Sq, New Bern, NC 28562
2750C N Roberts Ave, Lumberton, NC 28358
1110 Western Blvd, Jacksonville, NC 28540
2900 Arendell St Ste 19, Morehead City, NC 28557
6832 F Market St, Wilmington, NC 28405
4600 Main St Ste 1, Shallotte, NC 28470
Ohio
8489 Market St, Mentor, OH 44060
12588 Rockside Rd, Cleveland, OH 44125
1890 W Market St, Akron, OH 44313
405 Howe Ave, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221
241 W Wooster Rd, Barberton, OH 44203
426 East Waterloo Rd, Akron, OH 44319
1336 Whipple Ave NW, Canton, OH 44708
10560 Harrison Ave, Harrison, OH 45030
3640 Werk Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45248
110 S 7th St, Marietta, OH 45750
9025 Ohio River Rd, Wheelersburg, OH 45694
400 Silver Bridge Plz, Gallipolis, OH 45631
367 County Rd 406 Ste B, South Point, OH 45680
Pennsylvania
750 Ohio River Blvd, Rochester, PA 15074
4717 McKnight Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237
2444 Philadelphia St, Indiana, PA 15701
11628 Penn Hills Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15235
254 Oak Spring Rd, Washington, PA 15301
6041 State Route 30 Ste 20, Greensburg, PA 15601
1425 Scalp Ave Ste 130, Johnstown, PA 15904
389 N Reading Rd, Ephrata, PA 17522
500 Lincoln Hwy Ste 4, Fairless Hills, PA 19030
2140 White St, York, PA 17404
1150 Carlisle St, Hanover, PA 17331
South Carolina
1206 Highway 9 Bypass W, Lancaster, SC 29720
9221 Two Notch Rd Ste 30, Columbia, SC 29223
6169 St. Andrews Rd, Columbia, SC 29212
1641 Church St, Conway, SC 29526
710 Hwy 17 S Ste D, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582
1370 S Kings Hwy, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
1013 Old Highway 52, Moncks Corner, SC 29461
431 Saint James Ave Unit G, Goose Creek, SC 29445
10150 Dorchester RdUnit 227, Summerville, SC 29485
328 Robert Smalls Pkwy, Beaufort, SC 29906
Tennessee
633 S Jefferson Ave, Cookeville, TN 38501
1301 S James Campbell Blvd, Columbia, TN 38401
1913 Sherwood Rd, Kingsport, TN 37664
3901 Hixson Pike Ste 157, Chattanooga, TN 37415
1426 N Gateway Ave, Rockwood, TN 37854
Virginia
180 Kents Ridge Rd, Richlands, VA 24641
1090 Bypass Rd, Vinton, VA 24179
6610 Mooretown Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23188
2318 W Mercury Blvd, Hampton, VA 23666
1851 E Little Creek Rd, Norfolk, VA 23518
1971 S Military Hwy, Chesapeake, VA 23320
No more Big Lots openings?
With the additional 78 Big Lots stores reopening in its fourth wave this week, Variety Wholesalers will have reopened all 219 stores that it said it would after acquiring them from Gordon Brothers.
While fans of the retail brand are undoubtedly happy to have hundreds of locations reopened, the 219-store count represents just over a quarter of the Big Lots locations that were open at the end of last year.
Privately held Variety Wholesalers has not publicly announced plans to open any brand-new Big Lots locations at this time. For now, if there isn’t a Big Lots location near you after the fourth wave of reopenings this week, it’s likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
