Pic 'N' Save

Not to be confused with Pick 'n Save.

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.

Pic 'N' Save Corporation

Industry	Retail
Founded	1950
Defunct	2002, revived as a bargains store in November 2020
Fate	Acquired by Big Lots
Headquarters	Culver City, California, United States
Key people	William Zimmerman
Products	Closeout products
Website	https://pnsbargains.com/

History

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. In 1997, Consolidated Stores Corporation bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million (~$1.75 billion in 2023) in stock. In 2002, Big Lots (formerly Consolidated Stores) converted them into the Big Lots brand.

in 2020, Pic ‘N’ Save was revived as a bargain store, as of 2023, it has two locations in United States

In popular culture

In the 1983 film 10 to Midnight, detectives Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) and McCann (Andrew Stevens) 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 at 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.

External links

• Big Lots stays in the black (2002)
• Consolidated Stores changes its name to Big Lots (2001)