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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. In 1997, Consolidated Stores Corporation bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million in stock. [1] In 2002, Big Lots (formerly Consolidated Stores) converted them into the Big Lots brand.

Big Lots stores do not specifically have a layaway program but do offer an alternative referred to as a “price hold” program. This is applicable to any Big Lots store that carries...

Thrift Way / Shop n Bag (New Jersey; Philadelphia) Unified Grocers Wakefern Food Corporation Western Family Foods (supermarket wholesaler) – formerly Pacific Mercantile Cooperative Deep-discount and limited-assortment chains [ edit] Aldi – Owned by Aldi Süd Big Lots Dollar General Family Dollar Five Below

In the 2000s several Fortune 500 companies relocated from California to Northern Virginia, including Computer Sciences Corporation, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Northrop Grumman, and Science Applications International Corporation. Active companies formerly headquartered in the region include AOL, Sallie Mae, Sigarms Inc., and US Airways.