 Big Lots expected to close nearly 40 stores this year. The company made the announcement in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Specific locations were not identified. That's WHIO's Will Harrison. The company expects to open three stores as well as close 35 to 40 of them. There are more than a dozen of those locations in the Miami Valley. Trial began with opening statements in the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin.