Pic 'N' Save Corporation (later MacFrugals) was at one time the second-largest
closeout retail chain in the United States. Financial troubles caused the chain to close many stores in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
History
William Zimmerman founded Pic 'N' Save Corporation in 1950 in
Culver City, California
Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,779. Founded in 1917 as a "whites only" sundown town, it is now an ethnically diverse city with what was called the "third-most d ...
. 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
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Pro ...
, but left both markets in the late 1990s. In 1997,
Consolidated Stores Corporation
Big Lots Stores, Inc. (stylized as Big Lots!) is an American retail company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with over 1,400 stores in 47 states.
History
The Big Lots chain traces its history back to 1967 when Consolidated Stores Corporation w ...
bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million in stock. In 2002,
Big Lots (formerly Consolidated Stores) converted them into the Big Lots brand.
Mac Frugal's making switch, will be known as Big Lots
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In popular culture
In the 1983 film '' 10 to Midnight'', detectives Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. Known for his "granite features and brawny physique," he gained international fame for his starring roles in action, Western, and war ...
) and McCann (Andrew Stevens
Herman Andrew Stevens (born June 10, 1955) is an American executive, film producer, director and actor.
Early life
Stevens was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the only child of actress Stella Stevens and her former husband Noble Herman Stephens.
Ca ...
) are en route to inform the parents of a murder victim of their daughter's demise when they pass a Pic 'N' Save, next to a Thrifty Drug Store; this location was a
11341 National Boulevard
in Los Angeles.
In '' Troop Beverly Hills'' (1989) when Freddy discovers soon-to-be ex-wife Phyllis has just gone on a shopping spree using their joint credit cards, he tells her to have her fun now cause after the divorce she'll, "be shopping at the Pic 'N' Save."
Pic 'N' Save's parking lot, store front, and signs were also featured in the 1998 film, '' Slums of Beverly Hills''.
References
External links
Big Lots stays in the black
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Retail companies established in 1950
Retail companies disestablished in 2002
Defunct discount stores of the United States
1950 establishments in California
2002 disestablishments in California
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