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. 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 $995 million (~$ in ) in stock.[1] In 2002, Big Lots (formerly Consolidated Stores) converted them into the Big Lots brand.[2] This company has no connection to the "Pic-N-Save" chain based in northeast Florida in the 1950s-1990s.
in 2020, Pic ‘N’ Save was revived as a bargain store, and as of 2023, it had two locations in United States: in Anaheim, California, and Whittier, California. In 2024, the Anaheim location closed, leaving the Whittier location the sole remaining location.