PITTSBURGH — A new discount store brand is poised to pop up around the Pittsburgh area in the near future.
A last-minute deal at the close of 2024 that kept central Ohio-based retailer Big Lots from closing down completely will result in North Carolina-based Variety Wholesalers establishing four new stores in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, twice what it has now.
Currently, Variety Wholesalers operates only two of its Roses Discount Stores in western Pennsylvania, one in West Mifflin across from Kennywood Park and the other in Lower Burrell.
Gordon Brothers Retail Partners LLC agreed to buy Big Lots through a Chapter 11 process and in a pre-arranged deal sell between 200 and 400 of the established Big Lots stores to Variety Wholesalers, focusing on the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region, neighboring an established territory for the discount retailer that operates stores under Roses, Roses Express, Maxway, Bill’s Dollar Stores, Super 10, Super Dollar and Bargain Town banners.
Now, an early February filing in the Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware reveals the first 200 Big Lots locations to be taken over by Variety Wholesalers, although it’s still to be fully determined if the retailer will open its own stores in the largely leased locations or pursue other options.
The filing includes four Big Lots in the Pittsburgh metro slated to go to Variety Wholesalers.
They are: A store at 750 Ohio River Boulevard in Rochester, Beaver County; a Route 30 location in Greensburg; a store converted out of a former bowling alley in the Penn Hills Shopping Center; and a location on McKnight Road in Ross Township.
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