Nearly 50 additional Big Lots stores are set to close as the company navigates through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filings. The Ohio-based company announced earlier this month that it planned to sell assets and business operations to a private equity firm amid the bankruptcy filing.

Big Lots is closing more stores than it initially announced. The Columbus-based retailer, which is in the midst of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, now is closing at least 344 stores nationwide.

Big Lots is planning to close stores as it goes through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A store in Maryland left BI confused about the retailer's purpose.

Big Lots announced more than 300 store closings last month, including 10 stores in New York state. Closure dates have not been announced, but going-out-of-business sales are currently under way at shops in Buffalo, Canandaigua, Ithaca, New Hartford, Plattsburgh and Poughkeepsie.

Big Lots is closing more stores than it initially announced — and some Dallas-Fort Worth locations are now included. The Columbus, Ohio-based retailer, which is in the midst of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, now is closing at least 344 stores nationwide.

More Big Lots locations are set to close across Illinois as the business files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and enters into a sale agreement. The most recent wave of closures comes less than a year after the retail chain – based in Columbus, Ohio – shuttered its 3013 N. Sterling Ave. storefront in Peoria.

After filing for bankruptcy earlier this month, Big Lots is closing 344 stores nationally and seven in the Las Vegas Valley, according to new documents in the case. The discount retail chain announced on Sept.