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Big Lots Store No. 1, Berwick Plaza Shopping Center, Columbus, Ohio (Before and after); The first store in the Big Lots chain was located in the former Kroger store in the same shopping center. The store was later relocated to the former Buckeye Mart /Sarco building also pictured. This Murrieta, California Big Lots was a former Pic 'N' Save store.

William Zimmerman founded Pic 'N' Save Corporation in 1950 in Culver City, California. By 1985, it operated 90 stores in California and six other U.S. states. In 1991, the company changed its name to MacFrugals. It later expanded to the Southwest and the South, but left both markets in the late 1990s.

The reason for the confusion is because Revco owned a New Jersey-based closeout retailer known as Odd Lot Trading Co. Odd Lots (now Big Lots) and Odd Lot Trading Co. (formerly a subsidiary of Revco DS, Inc.) are two separate chains that operated using similar names, much like Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of …