Big Lots

I’ve been going to this Big Lots when it was once Pic ‘N Save so we have some history. I venture through the doors maybe once a year. It’s an interesting store in a sense that it’s got a mish mash of what looks like dollar store items along with name brand food stuffs, toys, etc.
We bought our first sofa set from here and lemme tell you, it’s the comfiest couch I’ve ever sat on. You’ll find other low priced furniture i.e.: dining tables, beds, dressers, side tables, etc. They also carry bedding, décor, kitchenware, patio furniture, pet stuff… the list goes on
Essentially, it’s a glorified dollar store, with some big things thrown in, but you can sometimes find some cool things.

This store is very organized now and schedule enough employees … I never expected that from Big Lot lol

I think this place is great! This is a large location, HUGE parking lot as well.
If you find yourself deep in the valley and you need some basics for a steal, this would be the Mecca.
I don’t stop in here often, but they have laundry detergent for a song!

Bought a couple of chairs and a sofa there. I love them.

Not my favorite BL location. They had a lot of empty shelves. I prefer going to the one on Tampa/​Nordhoff.
I like that they have a rewards card now. I’m always up for coupons.
They have a lot of items here, almost comparable to Target. You can get furniture (not so great quality though), food, toys, brand name cleaning products, shampoo, etc. etc.

I was in the area getting my car fixed and decided to stop by Big Lots. I didn’t expect to get anything here, but just like everyone else, I end up with a few things. I was quite surprised at the different types of items that they had, even some brand name things, furniture, etc. I would say this place is a slight one step up from the 99 cent store, but it ain’t no Nordstrom’s.
Just like similar places, the lines are long and it can get a bit cray cray, but I’ll take it.

The lines to check out take forever!!! Why. I don’t understand why. This is a great place to shop for home cleaning items, furniture, pet supplies, detergent and even food. I would say check expiration dates. They always seem to expire too soon or already expire. The aisles are always jam packed with supplies and sometimes the items fall to the floor.
The customer service is a hit or miss! If you get their rewards card and spend $ 200 after 10 times you visit you get 20% off your entire purchase.
Don’t come here during holiday season, the lines and parking lot are crazy. I won’t lie though they do have great gifts and Christmas decorations for cheap! Which makes going to target or Walmart a bigger hassle!

I don’t personally have a problem with this store. Its clean and has cheap products as well as a bunch of foreign food products that’s arent always easy tofind anywhere else.
They have furniture and a frozen food section as well. I don’t think I’d really call the store messy. I’d say its moreless packed with a surplus of items other stores throw out or cant sell. When you have stores like this (think places like Ross or Marshall’s), youre bound to have an overabundance of items and overcrowing on the shelves. The good side to that is that everything is cheap or rather reasonable.
The cleaning products are about my favorite aisle. Theyre about a dollar less than places like Walmart or Tar​get​.Name brand products too.
Oh and the cashiers are few as mentioned before. They must not get heavy clientele considering they only have a couple of cashiers. I found them to be very nice and helpful.

People come here and buy stuff like they’re stocking up for the apocalypse. Yet, there are only 2 cashiers helping them ring up their carts full of stuff so it takes longer than it should.
It’s difficult to find somebody on the floor to help you out.
Upside: Affordable stuff, especially if you don’t require your stuff to be super fancy.

No one even spoke to me the entire time I was in there… I asked a question and rather than telling me she just stopped and grabbed the item and handed it to me.

Messy all over customer services suck and… DARK PARKING LOT

You have to hand it to a store that makes things like Easter affordable, especially for less than fortunate families.
I went here today to shop for plastic eggs (those fillable kind that pervaded as a child, filled with random candies and even change – oh those were the days) for a school wide Spring Egg Hunt. 100 plastic eggs for $ 5? Check.
I also found Tootsie roll midgies, double bubble eggs, and other small sized candy (to fit inside of the eggs!) for 400 students for, get this, 90 dollars (this includes the plastic egg shells!).
In other words, there isn’t any shame in going in here and finding affordable items. I can check my pride at the door if it means saving a few dollars, especially for kids, for animals (great deals on cat furniture, etc.) and for toiletries (got a great Goody brush for under 5 dollars).
Waste not, want not.

Located in the brown eyed starfish of the San Fernando valley (canoga park) this un polished turd stands out on the corner of Sherman way & topanga canyon. What this store lacks in looks on the outside it also lack on the inside with tons of cheap stuff that even poor people who shop at the goodwill wouldn’t want. But despite all the junk, the slow moving customers, lines, & cashiers you can sometimes find some decent stuff hidden here. I usually find some useful stuff for the house like cleaning supplies, stuff for the kitchen, & stuff for my dog.
If you have some time to kill just stroll around any random big lots, you might come across something useful for a cheap price.

Generally poor selection of dry food and drinks. Need to put in a dairy case/​refrigerator unit with cold goods. What is the sense of selling cereal if you don’t also sell milk to go with it? You can even go to a 99 cent store and buy milk. Couldn’t find any large (gallon-​sized) containers of bottled water. Staff at this location are deadheads… no personality, they don’t give a crap about the customers, and are unhelpful. Checkout lines at cash registers are usually very long with only one cash register open and like 10 people in line. They recently expanded the furniture department in the store; I bought couch and coffee table there a couple years ago and they’ve been great, but were still overpriced. On occasion, you can find a good deal on something at this store but you’re better off going somewhere else where the selection is better.

I’m a big big fan of the idea of big lots. The actuality is a bit of a slap to the face. Some items are a steal (true!), some seem like a steal but are ok priced, and some are over-​priced and shitty quality. The variety is huge in terms of what you can purchase and quality/​quantity of what you’re getting. An aisle may feel like cost-​plus or maybe a step down or a 99c store.
Highlights may include gift sets — always good for white elephant items, organization items (boxes/​Tupperware), and random foods. Bizarre but always interesting to peruse.
The parking lot is large, and check out sucks — slow shoppers and even slower employees at checkout (and usually only 1 lane!). Let’s clean up the store, make it more efficient and at least I’ll be happier on my step out instead of just my step in!

This location is large, and has a nice selection of items… They had Christmas out in October!!! They are way ahead of it. There are definitely good values to be found here– so when you go, take your time, and look. Guaranteed you will leave with thing you never knew you had to have!

Waaaaaay back in the 60’s and 70’s (maybe even into the 80’s, but I don’t think so), this place used to be called Pic ‘N Save… which a friend of mine coined his own title for it, and he called it Schlock & Chazerai. I always loved my friend’s renamed version because this place really does cater to cheap, borderline shoddy and trashy (in terms of quality) items, and even though the store name has changed several times (Big Lots is just one of several official renames), the quality of goods has remained, but improved a little bit.
What I personally love about Big Lots is that they pretty much supplied me with all my holiday cookie tins at GREATLY reduced prices (When I had a cookie biz.) At the holidays, they get in huge shipments of them, and I used to buy up most of them. :) I’d go raid several Big Lots. I would call for days on end till I’d get the report «they arrive on _​_​_​_​_​_​,» and I was there the second the store would open. I did this for a number of years until recently. I still purchase their holiday decorations in general. They have really cute things, and the prices are quite good.
The store boasts greatly reduced pricing, but over the years, while still definitely cheaper, I don’t consider them the cheapest anymore. They now sell furniture, which I don’t recall them doing way back in the 60’s or 70’s… altho I may just not remember that accurately. Furniture is not something I’d get from Big Lots… it definitely fits the schlock and chazerai image.

Who in the hell STILL uses price stickers which require razor blades and Goo B Gone in an effort to remove? Lame, lame, lame…

My friend took me here to look for some random items we needed for the office. High lighters, cleaning supplies and such.
I was quite surprised at some of the stuff, we ended up with some candles and a vase also at the end of the trip and I was pleasantly surprised.
I bought a shade thingy for my car windshield… that has brought me much happiness in the recent hot weather.

This store sucks. Its always a MESS, and every time I have been there, the checkers are soooooooooo rude and cold. Cant stand it.