One of the things that I find morbidly entertaining is examining the “food” for sale in Big Lots and other remainder stores. It amuses me that somebody, somewhere, thought these things would actually sell well. Let’s come up with a few products to help stock the shelves. My ideas:
Kapi-Kola artificially flavored ham soda
Wasabi M&Ms (plain and peanut)
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Cap’n Crunch Pepperoni Palooza**
I happen to love their specialty food aisle.
I go nuts when they have (the rather expensive) Robert Rothschild Farm items for 75% less than I pay for them online or elsewhere. http://www.robertrothschild.com/
They also carry the full line of Bob’s Red Mill products, including the hard to find items.
I also stock up on the vegetarian Indian food entrees (the brand name escapes me right now) that cost close to 70% less than it does in the health food store.
I have landed so many great specialty food deals in Big Lots. It’s wonderful.
I’m always amazed by all the different canned fish products. I always grab a few, and have yet to be disappointed.
Bacon and bacon flavored bacon cheese balls, in the one size fits all battalion size plastic barrel.
Big Lots is one of those stores I drove past for years, never quite sure what they sold. There are any number of stores that have opaque names that convey nothing about their market or wares. I wonder how much that cuts into their potential business.
(Many stores have unique names, but append “Groceries” or “Clothing” or “Sporting Goods” or “Fashion” or something to pass along a clue.)
Dick’s?
I can kill a half hour or more (especially with my snarky sister) cruising the weird food aisles at Big Lots. I coukld totally see something like ginger wasabi popcorn in the aforementioned clear plastic barrel.
I do stop there for Bob’s Red Mill stuff and Annie’s cookies though.
You mean
Dick’s
Sporting Goods
?
I’d never heard of them before moving to this region, but I never had any question as to their line. Was in one just the other day, in fact.
Big Lots is better than it’s former name, MacFrugal’s. Although I like to imagine they cater to people who speak two languages.
I think Big Lots bought MacFrugals. There was a Big Lots in my town when I was a kid in the 80s.
I feel like Wasabi M&Ms could become a smash hit, I don’t know. Japan has wasabi Kit Kats.
At a dollar store (Dollar Tree I think): they sell Shasta soda because it is cheaper. That was the first time I learned that soda bottles are also made in 3 liters! And now you can fine the IMHO pointless 16 oz size many places.
Some of the discount stores I still think of as department stores (just clothing and accessories) when clearly they’re not. E.g. someone mentioned they got ice cream from Kohl’s.
In California it was Pic N Save before it was Big Lots. We shopped there a lot when I was a kid. It mostly sold clothes and household goods back then (the 70’s), as I recall.
I bought a box of baby cereal at Big Lots once.
When I got home, I happened to check the expiry date. It was already expired.
Oh well, I thought. It’s dehydrated rice. It can’t really go bad…
The first time I poured a measure of it out, that one measure contained a portion of a rubber gasket and a long, red, human hair.
Last time I bought anything at Big Lots.
Are you kidding? Japan has __________ KitKats, and there’s not much you can put in that blank that wouldn’t fit. Wasabi is a dull choice there, for Japan.
Japanese Kit Kats
I buy canned stuffed grape leaves there whenever they have them.
Just don’t accidentally wander into a Good’s
Sporting Dicks
by mistake. Totally different market demographic.
I got some dehydrated hash brown potatoes at Big Lots once. They came in a carton strangely resembling Waffle House buildings. Yum!
Big Lots gets credit for my dried cherry habit.
I do see many interesting food items there, but a low-salt diet keeps me from trying them.
Someone mentioned Pic 'N Save. We had those in S. GA, too.
“This smells like the chocolate version of going to a thrift shop and then immediately walking out.”
The whole video was an intriguing combination of WTF and Want. Kind of like the food at Big Lots.
Where did this person live? There’s a bulk food distributor in Illinois that’s owned by the Kohl family, and kept using the name even after Kohl’s, the clothing store, moved in.