Big Lots to close 56 more stores

(Gray News) - Discount retailer Big Lots said it intends to close dozens more stores across the country.

Big Lots listed more than 300 closures earlier this year.

It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September and entered an agreement to be acquired by Nexus Capital Management, listing the company as a "stalking horse" bidder.

Nexus will purchase the company unless another firm outbids it.

The retailer operates 1,145 locations in the U.S. currently.

Big Lots has added dozens more stores to the closures list incrementally in recent weeks.

Some stores that were listed as closing earlier this year have closed. Others are conducting closing sales with discounts storewide.

The 56 stores, listed in a legal filing on Friday, are not yet marked as closing on the store's websites and include:

Alabama: Homewood

Arizona: Lake Havasu City

Arkansas: Conway

California: Santa Ana, Hesperia, Redding, Reedley

Colorado: Brighton

Connecticut: Bristol

Florida: Orlando, Tampa

Georgia: Cartersville, Kennesaw

Iowa: Burlington

Illinois: Decatur, Machesney Park

Indiana: Franklin, New Albany, New Haven

Louisiana: Lake Charles

Kansas: Shawnee

Maryland: Edgewood, Waldorf

Michigan: Livonia, Southfield

Missouri: Blue Springs, Fenton

Nebraska: Fremont

New Mexico: Albuquerque (both stores)

North Carolina: Boone

Ohio: Brunswick, Highland Heights, North Olmstead, Westerville

Oklahoma: Ada, Tulsa

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Whitehall

Tennessee: Chattanooga (Gunbarrel Road), Elizabethton

Texas: Cedar Park, Denton, Lewisville, Paris, San Angelo, Spring, Texarkana

Virginia: Chesapeake, Gloucester, Richmond

Washington: Kennewick, Tacoma, Vancouver, Yakima

Wisconsin: Janesville