Pic 'N' Save

"Pic 'N' Save" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Roundy's.
Pic 'N' Save Corporation
Industry Retail
Fate Acquired by Big Lots
Founded 1950
Defunct 2002
Headquarters Culver City, California, USA
Key people
William Zimmerman
Products Closeout products
Website None

Pic 'N' Save was, at one time, the second-largest closeout retail chain in the United States. Financial troubles caused the chain to close many of the markets in the late-1990s and early-2000s.

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 Western U.S. states. In 1991, the company changed its name to MacFrugals. It later expanded to the Southwest and the South, and left both markets in the late 1990s. In 2002, Big Lots (formerly Consolidated Stores Corporation) bought out the remaining 'MacFrugals' stores for $995 million in stock and converted them into the Big Lots brand.

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.

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