ELKINS — The Elkins Big Lots store, which closed earlier this year, may be reopening soon, as a “hiring event” will take place at the facility today.

No announcement of a reopening for the Elkins location has yet been made, but Variety Wholesalers has said it will reopen some of the Big Lots locations around the country.

A “Now Hiring” banner has been hung on the front of the shuttered Elkins Big Lots store, off the Beverly Five-Lane. Flyers posted on the store’s windows read “We want you to be a part of the Big Lots comeback! Apply today!”

Other flyers on the windows say the Variety Wholesalers “hiring event” will run today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the closed store. The event will feature “on the spot interviews” for positions ranging from 20 to 40 hours per week.

“We have opportunities for experienced store management, customer service associates, hourly managers and key carriers, cashiers, stocking positions and much more,” one flyer reads.

Variety Wholesalers, based in Henderson, North Carolina, acquired the Big Lots brand from Gordon Brothers, which bought Big Lots’ assets out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year.

Jeff King, Variety Wholesaler’s vice president of sales and marketing, said earlier this month that the company plans to soft open a total of 220 stores by June 5.

Earlier this month, Yahoo Finance offered a list of 200 Big Lots stores that could reopen, but the Elkins store was not one of the three West Virginia locations on the list (Princeton, Bridgeport and Martinsburg).

So far, Big Lots has only announced nine stores that will definitely reopen. They are located in Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

Variety Wholesalers owns and operates 380 stores in the Southeastern United States, including the Bargain Town, Bill’s Dollar Stores, Maxway, Roses, Roses Express, Super 10 and Super Dollar franchises.