{"id":25786,"date":"2026-09-11T22:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25786"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:58:39","slug":"big-lots-3230-augusta-road-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25786","title":{"rendered":"Big Lots, 3230 Augusta Road: September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130464.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130464_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130464_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130464_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130465.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130465_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130465_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130465_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130466.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130466_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130466_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130466_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130467.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130467_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130467_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130467_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130468.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130468_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130468_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130468_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I'm pretty sure this location was one of the ones that closed during the chain's bankruptcy, though I did not get around to visiting it then, and then came back after the sale of some stores to <i>Variety Wholesalers<\/i>, but now they are closing again.  A local Facebook post says that the building owners went up on the lease prompting this, but I'm not sure if that was speculation or well-founded.  At any rate google reviews indicate that the place is mostly stripped, but that there are deep discounts on anything remaining.  Given that report, I am using a September 2026 closing date though the end is not quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>This building is a <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=916\">former Winn-Dixie<\/a>, and you can see a picture of the original <i>Big Lots<\/i> incarnation at that post.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Andrew)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3230+Augusta+Rd,+West+Columbia,+SC+29170\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm pretty sure this location was one of the ones that closed during the chain's bankruptcy, though I did not get around to visiting it then, and then came back after the sale of some stores to Variety Wholesalers, but now they are closing again. A local Facebook post says that the building owners went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[4462,249,4137,1136,4,286,57],"class_list":["post-25786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-3230-augusta-road","tag-augusta-road","tag-big-lots","tag-discount","tag-stores","tag-us-1","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25788,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions\/25788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}