Variety Wholesalers is looking to open a handful of Big Lots locations on Thursday in the first of "four waves of openings" it has planned for the discount retailer’s stores it bought.

Nine Big Lots stores were reopened on April 10 as a first wave by Variety Wholesalers, according to news release. They included one in Kentucky, one in Louisiana, two in Mississippi, one in North ...

Apr. 16—Big Lots is returning to Decatur, Athens and 52 other locations on May 1. Variety Wholesalers, a North Carolina-based retail company that has taken control of hundreds of Big Lots leases ...