it's the end of an era...
Dad worked for Big Lots from '85-07 when he retired @ 62. ( well,when he started with them, it was still Odd Lots, then, and they were expanding, calling the new stores BIG and Small Lots...
there was some law suit with another company elsewhere in the US that was using the Odd Lots name, the settlement said they could only use the Odd Lots Name within a 90 mi radius of the Home office in Columbus, OH.)
asst. manager,store manager, then the VAST majority he was a District Manager, with 6-12 stores under him at a time. they moved him around quite a bit, but he never moved us. there were a couple years where his closest store was 3 hrs from home. but he insisted on coming home every night.
he Stepped back down to a Store Manger in 2002(?) those last 5 years they moved him through 3-4 different stores.
he's rarely set foot in one since retirement.
fun fact: the big lots superhero character "Closeout Man" was loosely Modeled on my Dad. he was told as much at some Corp meetings.
the original founders of the company, used to Run Rinks, another discount retailer in the midwest, that went out in the mid 80's, and Dad had worked for them for many, many years. in similar Roles.
