Big Lots Gets Big Overhaul

This is not your mother's discount retailer. Sol Shenk, the company's late founder, purchased and resold items that would make a local clean sweeps auction seem boring: 2,700 DeLorean cars, six million bottles of Breck shampoo, 20,000 cases of Oreo Milk Changers, used Las Vegas slot machines, oil-drilling rigs and tanning beds.