After 10 years, we return to Big Lots to say goodbye.
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00:00That is the largest naturally occurring bag of a product I have ever seen, frankly.
00:08When was the last time you went to Big Lots? You really, like, touted it as a great place to go
00:1210 years ago. I used to love it. I didn't know I could
00:14always go to a job lot, but it's a little different. It is another good value store,
00:18you can get a lot of great buys. The percentage of, like, discounted goods went down,
00:22and the full price goods went up. We went to Party City to see them close.
00:26These guys are also closing either this month or next month. It occurred to me,
00:29we did junk carts on both of those in 2015, 10 years ago.
00:32Wow. That's crazy.
00:33That was, like, season one junk cart stuff. We're in Swansea at what used to be the
00:37Swansea Movie Theater Plaza. Yes.
00:39We came here once for a Joanne's with my mom. Which is gone now.
00:42That's closed. There's a place that just says Chinese food.
00:45It's always been there. Have you ever eaten there?
00:47I have never been there for Chinese food. Neither have I, and I want to go.
00:50Eating a mayo! A succulent Chinese mayo! So we're going to take a bite at Big Lots.
00:54Yeah, you know what? I'm not really going to miss it, I don't think.
00:57I'm going to get a snazzy orange cart because it looks like a brand new.
01:00One problem, the carts are outside, but the door is not automatic to get in.
01:04I remember when we came here, I was especially hit by the furniture section.
01:07I just thought it was odd.
01:08This place is a great source of cheap temporary couches.
01:11That huge couch over there, that whole setup, $6.99.
01:14Like, these pillows aren't half bad.
01:16That's a nice corner sofa.
01:17I have a slight desire for a standalone recliner for my living room.
01:21Yeah. A standalone.
01:22This is actually exactly what I'm talking about, but I need a better deal than this.
01:25Look, the dual cup holders that are lit.
01:28What is all this?
01:28Oh, it's the controls. Power controls for the chair.
01:30This is perfect for you.
01:31Who would this possibly be for?
01:32You!
01:33If not for me.
01:33If you just had a little bit bigger of a living room.
01:35It's a recliner too, somehow.
01:37Put it up!
01:40Wave, steady pulse. This is a massage chair, my love.
01:42Is it massaging you?
01:43No.
01:44It actually is kind of a great two-seater.
01:46Hey!
01:47Gloria looks like she's really loving it.
01:49Please don't touch my couch.
01:50I threw myself on this couch and it feels like throwing myself into a wall.
01:55Oh, that's hard.
01:56Add an extra bed under here. You could pull out for a friend.
01:58I think we're learning that Gloria loves furniture shopping.
02:01Mesh carts and rolling bins and lousy office chairs.
02:05Impractical storage.
02:06Yes. Like, what are you going to put on that?
02:07I do kind of like the clocks, honestly.
02:09I don't have a clock, like, in my house.
02:10You want one?
02:11No.
02:12I mean, I have that big one I really like, but it doesn't work anymore.
02:14So now it's just kind of wall art.
02:16Dining room table and stuff.
02:17It wasn't a terrible place to go for like, hey, I just need a table.
02:20I would honestly pay $9.99.
02:23$17.99?
02:24Yeah, but it is glass.
02:26It's glass. If it smashes, it smashes into a trillion pieces.
02:29And we own $17.99 worth of glass.
02:31Apple crust. Want your whole house to reek like apple crust?
02:34Reek like crust, yeah.
02:35What are those?
02:36So many pictures of homes and home staging for a selling, and it's just wooden links.
02:40Why is this the style of the time?
02:42It's meant to put your keys on.
02:43I saw these little hooks and I thought it looked like coat hangers.
02:47What's going on?
02:47Sculptures of stuffed dogs, balloons.
02:50This is a style now by Mikasa, which is a fairly famous design house.
02:55Which means it's popular.
02:56Yes.
02:57I like this.
02:58Now it looks like it's filthy.
02:59Somehow it got absolutely filthy.
03:01I want to know if I can cuddle up with that like I could on the other one.
03:04I mean, you can.
03:05The cuddling options are reduced, but not eliminated.
03:07When we had a studio, I bought a Bluetooth like tower speaker from here for like $40.
03:12I figured this would be a good place for like Bluetooth junk.
03:15Yes.
03:15Chinese e-waste.
03:16Exactly.
03:16Just direct to, you can e-waste it directly out of the store.
03:19I'm kind of surprised the inventory is completely unchanged in the last six years.
03:22It's exactly the same stuff.
03:24And maybe that's a clue.
03:26Somebody's going to buy 200 of the locations and operate them still as Big Lots.
03:30Have you been paying any attention to the sales?
03:32They're very modest.
03:3320% off apparel.
03:34Look at this enormous bag of kettle corn.
03:38Holy crap.
03:38Absolutely enormous.
03:39That is the largest naturally occurring bag of a product I have ever seen, Frankie.
03:45I don't know if people understand just how big it is.
03:49There is no way you can get through this much kettle corn before it went stale.
03:53You're not storing that in a kitchen.
03:54I mean, you have to store it in the kettle room.
03:56Competition from Amazon, Walmart, and Costco.
03:59And debt.
03:59They have a lot of debt.
04:00And failure to recover from bankruptcy.
04:02I don't know that it occupies its own niche enough.
04:04No, it's like just kind of a section of Walmart here.
04:08And like waiting to beat Walmart's prices?
04:10No.
04:10I know they're in the process of shutting down, but the inventory is so boring.
04:13I'm so bored.
04:14Just the same tired crap.
04:16Look, a Ruth Bader Ginsburg puzzle.
04:18Ew, it's for International Woman's Day.
04:21If you thought women were a puzzle.
04:22That's RBG, Frankie.
04:24Notorious RBG.
04:26Oh, you guys like these little dump trucks?
04:27What do you think?
04:27This is junk.
04:28You don't feel it.
04:29Oh, is it?
04:30Yeah, it's junk.
04:31Oh, it's tiny and cute.
04:33It is tiny and cute, but it's also junk.
04:35Lunumumbo!
04:37I don't really like these bows.
04:39They're metal and don't sound good, and I hate them.
04:42I kind of like it, and I kind of love it.
04:44Well, everyone has opinions because you didn't like my dump trucks, and now I don't like your
04:50bows.
04:51That's correct.
04:51You're absolutely right, Gloria.
04:53Gloria, opinions are like armpits.
04:55Everybody's got two of them, and they both stink.
04:57A holiday thimble.
04:59A noisy, not good sounding holiday thimble.
05:02Gloria hates the jingling and jangling.
05:04Stop!
05:04Oversized novelty.
05:06Jingle bell, jingle bell.
05:08I prefer them in green.
05:10You finally got them.
05:11I finally got them.
05:12Yeah, they're 50% off.
05:13It's a great deal.
05:14I couldn't even find my ornament hangers.
05:16I didn't have Christmas essentials.
05:19When she makes a statement, she needs it fully acknowledged and closed out.
05:22Yes, closed it out.
05:25Mark it complete.
05:25Gloria was in her first grade classroom, and she asked if she could go to the bathroom,
05:30and she didn't get complete affirmative acknowledgement from the teacher.
05:34She got, mm-hmm, yeah, and so she went.
05:36And when she got back, the teacher said, I didn't know you were gone.
05:38And from that point on, Gloria was like, I'm waiting until I hear full acknowledgement.
05:44She didn't even say yeah or mm-hmm.
05:46I don't remember which one it was.
05:48So you interpreted some other sound she made as an mm-hmm.
05:50You learned a good lesson about positive confirmation
05:52and really making sure people understand what you're talking about.
05:54Whenever we communicate to go somewhere,
05:56I will always put the location and the location name and the time.
06:00Yeah, it's a good idea.
06:00Like restate it as the last sentence.
06:02It's a good idea.
06:02It's all utter junk.
06:04It totally is.
06:04Why not have some good stuff?
06:06I mean, look at this.
06:07I'm not seeing anything.
06:08A random season of Sex and the City with the complete collection.
06:12Wow.
06:13Nina, instead of that giant box you have, you could just buy this for $31.99.
06:17You could have for $5 like one of these Justice League cartoons, the Chris Rock show.
06:21You know, candy in a big aisle always kind of appeals.
06:23Three bucks though for a little bag?
06:25You like an orange slice?
06:26I do, but I just got a bag like this with more content.
06:30Now it's more for $1.50 at Market Basket.
06:32I love these so much.
06:34Cherry slices, these little sugar-coated slices.
06:36They're awful for you in every possible way, but they are tasty.
06:39Nobody's going to beat Market Basket at Walmart.
06:41You're right.
06:42I mean, Market Basket is one of the kings on price.
06:44They're number one in the country on stock,
06:46but the price you have to pay is all day in the aisles.
06:48There's people restocking stuff.
06:49I get that.
06:50Chocolate?
06:50They're vegan chocolate chips with their mocha flavor,
06:53but they don't have like a ton of like weirdo crap ingredients.
06:56I'm intrigued by the mocha thing of it and that it doesn't have things like palm oil
07:01or like extra like weird sugars in it.
07:04They are $6.
07:06None of these things hold any appeal to me.
07:07I must admit, Frankie, I've become a bit of an ingredient snob.
07:11I don't buy like pre-prepared bakery things anymore.
07:15Like if I want some cookies, I'll either wait for my sisters to make some
07:18or on a rare occasion, I'll make one myself.
07:20You don't need cinnamon dust.
07:21You don't need cinnamon crunch.
07:23That stuff, look at the ingredients.
07:26This is what I'm talking about.
07:27Monoglycerides, polysorbate, sodium sterol, lactic sodium acid.
07:32Make some butter and sugar and whip it and it's way better for you.
07:36Maybe RFK Jr. will fix it.
07:38One of the things we're gonna get rid of in the first year is cinnamon dust.
07:41It's a little too small, huh?
07:43A tiny.
07:44She had a pink one just like this.
07:45Problem is you can't put your head back because you're too big for it.
07:48Now you need some medium-sized between chair that doesn't exist.
07:51What about this quick makeshift computer desk?
07:53Look, if you got 150 bucks, you need a desk for your life.
07:56I'm a little surprised to see that they have an impulse aisle.
07:59Yeah, well, I mean, that is the retailing style now.
08:01Filter everyone through the impulse aisle.
08:02I gotta say, the sales are basically non-existent right now.
08:05Right, like bargain alert five and under is not, you know,
08:09Valentine's 30% off.
08:10It's as high as it goes here.
08:12Except these.
08:12But you've been wanting those since.
08:14Since before Christmas and now I'll have them for next year.
08:16You getting anything?
08:17Just a self-satisfied sense of satisfaction.
08:20None of those chocolates?
08:22Look at this.
08:23You get candy flavored chapstick.
08:24But it's York, it's not Junior Mints.
08:26Candy flavored chapstick?
08:27No, thanks.
08:28With the brands right on them?
08:29No, thanks.
08:30A Coke for $2.39, a 20 ounce.
08:32They've got Nina's chocolate chips on the speed aisle here.
08:34Yeah, Nina. One last chance.
08:36One last chance to say no.
08:37Snickers filled cake bites.
08:39Different flavors of cotton candy.
08:40S'mores.
08:41Ew.
08:42Look, impulse Halloween overstock.
08:44Last chance to get a Big Lots bag.
08:45Look at that.
08:46So what did you spend?
08:47I spent 95 cents.
08:48Nina spent 96 cents.
08:50And we learned that they have no idea if this one's actually closed.
08:53They have no idea.
08:54They said that they just sold 400 stores to some conglomerate.
08:56Yeah, to some new...
08:57But they will still be Big Lots.
08:59It may live on, but who knows what it's going to look like and for how long.
09:02I give it a year.
09:03Automatic doors on the way out, but not on the way in?
09:05Really?