Big Lots is preparing to reopen its next batch of stores, which will include eleven in Pennsylvania, one of which is in Bucks County, writes Erin McCarthy for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Fairless Hills location will reopen on June 5, together with other stores across the Commonwealth.

The reopenings are part of Big Lots’ “revitalization strategy,” which will include the return of hundreds of locations. The move follows a tumultuous year for the discount retailer, which filed for bankruptcy in the fall.

By December, the Ohio-based company, which had 73 stores in Pennsylvania at the time, was winding down operations at its entire inventory of stores, including around a dozen in the Philadelphia region.

However, the company managed to find a buyer in January, reaching an agreement with Gordon Bros. Retail Partners to sell some of its locations to North Carolina-based Variety Wholesalers, which owns several discount chains in the Southeastern U.S. Under the deal,

Variety will operate between 200 and 400 Big Lots locations.

The company previously reopened 132 stores across the country in May, thirteen of them in Pennsylvania, though none of those were in the Philadelphia area.

For a full look at Big Lots’ comeback plan and what it means for shoppers in our region, read the entire story in The Philadelphia Inquirer.