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{{Short description|Former American retailer}}
{{distinguish|Pick 'n Save}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Pic 'N' Save Corporation
| logo = Pic N Save.svg
| fate = [[Takeover|Acquired]] by [[Big Lots]]
| defunct = 2002, revived as a bargains store in November 2020
| foundation = 1950
| location = [[Culver City, California]], United States
| key_people = William Zimmerman
| industry = [[Retail]]
| products = Closeout products
| homepage = https://pnsbargains.com/|
}}

'''Pic 'N' Save Corporation''' (later '''MacFrugals''') was at one time the second-largest [[closeout (sale)|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 [[Southwestern United States|Southwest]] and the [[Southern United States|South]], but left both markets in the late 1990s. In 1997, [[Consolidated Stores Corporation]] bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=995000000|start_year=1997}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) in stock.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-06-fi-50687-story.html Discounters Mac Frugal's, Consolidated to Merge]</ref> In 2002, [[Big Lots]] (formerly Consolidated Stores) converted them into the Big Lots brand.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170202013713/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/854175/Mac-Frugals-making-switch-will-be-known-as-Big-Lots.html?pg=all Mac Frugal's making switch, will be known as Big Lots]</ref> 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, as of 2023, it had two locations in United States; Anaheim and Whittier, CA. In 2024 the Anaheim location closed.

==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 PayLess|Thrifty Drug Store]]; this location was at [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=11341+National+Boulevard+-+Los+Angeles,+California,+USa&hnear=11341+National+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+California+90064&t=h&z=16 11341 National Boulevard] in Los Angeles.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

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]]''.

==References==
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==External links==

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*[http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2002/08/19/daily20.html Big Lots stays in the black] (2002)
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DC103AF934A25756C0A9679C8B63 Consolidated Stores changes its name to Big Lots] (2001)
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