Last Broome Big Lots Store is Slowly Fading Away

The "Big Lots" era in the Binghamton region is coming to an end after nearly three decades.

The discount retailer is in the process of shutting down hundreds of stores across the country.

After the company filed for bankruptcy protection last fall, those who worked at the Big Lots store in the Price Chopper Plaza on Binghamton's West Side were advised that location would be closed.

Business at that location ended in early December after virtually everything in the place had been sold.

At that time, employees at the Big Lots store at Vestal's Four Corners store expressed concern about the future of that site. But they learned only days later that the Vestal Parkway operation also would be shut down.

Some of the Vestal store's regular customers had expected the place would be closed by now. But it's continuing to operate, selling merchandise that continues to be brought in from a Big Lots distribution center.

The Vestal location now is expected to close around March 16.

The area's first Big Lots store opened in 1995 on West State Street on Binghamton's North Side. That operation was shut down when the company opened at the site of a former Price Chopper store on Glenwood Avenue in 2012.

The 30,000-square-foot Vestal store opened in 2002 in what had been a Grand Union supermarket.

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