BI-LO / Badcock Home Furniture & More, 940 Chesterfield Highway: October 2024
Badcock Home Furtniture & More went out of business in 2024. In December of 2023, it had been acquired by a Texas-based chain, Conn's, "in a move the company projected would increase its annual revenue by $1.85 billion." Clearly, that didn't quite pan out so well. In October 2024, the Badcock Home Furniture & More store in Cheraw closed after a month-or-so-long storewide clearance sale.
The Cheraw Badcock store first opened in the early-to-mid 1990s at the old Big Lots location downtown, which is currently a Fitness Worldwide Gym. Around ten years later, Badcock moved to 940 Chesterfield Highway, which was the original location of the BI-LO grocery store.
I believe that when this shopping center at the corner of Windsor Drive and Chesterfield Highway (or Highway 9) was built (1960s???), BI-LO was one of the first stores. In this shopping center at the beginning of the 1990s, when facing the front of the shopping center, starting from the left, there was Family Dollar, BI-LO, Revco (later CVS), and Jones Furniture. I'm a bit fuzzy on what stores existed in between Jones Furniture and the Shoe Show, before it moved to Chesterfield Commons. I do remember there also being a Cheraw Pawn Gun & Jewelry and the Mini Doughnuts stand. By the end of the '90s, the BI-LO and CVS would eventually move to 8 Chesterfield Highway by the fire department.