Xpect Discounts

Xpect Discounts was a chain of discount drug and grocery stores operated by Marc's from 1979 until 2016. At its peak, the chain had seven stores in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

History
Xpect Discounts was founded by Marc Glassman in 1979 as a discount drug store. Glassman was a former employee of Bernie Shulman's, a discount drug store in Cleveland, Ohio. He eventually opened his own chain of stores, Marc's.

Originally exclusively a drug store, Xpect eventually added groceries, health and beauty aids, and other general merchandise. The chain had four locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts as of 1994.

Xpect began to struggle during the 2008 recession. As of the early 2010's, the chain had seven stores, all in Connecticut. The location in Derby closed in April 2012. North Haven's Xpect Discounts was then shuttered in July 2013. The last individual store to close was the Newtown Road store in Danbury, which shut down in March 2015, leaving the chain with four stores.

On February 19, 2015, it was announced that Marc's would be pulling out of the state of Connecticut and the remaining Xpect Discounts locations would close. The remaining three stores, in Milford, Cromwell, and East Haven, shut down on April 1, 2016. As of January 2023, the Milford store is now Colonial Toyota, the Cromwell store is a ShopRite, and the East Haven store is a Big Lots.

Resources

 * Xpect Discounts/List of locations