Xpect Discounts
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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.
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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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] North Haven's Xpect Discounts was then shuttered in July 2013.[4] 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.[5]
On February 19, 2015, it was announced that Marc's would be leaving the state of Connecticut and the remaining Xpect Discounts locations would close.[6] The remaining three stores, in Milford, Cromwell, and East Haven, shut down on April 1, 2016.[7] 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.
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- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1981/11/22/shulmans-buying-low-selling-low/1d84db60-e343-4c71-b060-5a4129c2bbda/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171201081025/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15417119.html
- ↑ https://valley.newhavenindependent.org/article/xpect_discounts_in_derby_to_close/
- ↑ https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/XPect-Discounts-in-North-Haven-to-close-at-end-of-11386945.php
- ↑ https://www.newstimes.com/business/article/Xpect-to-close-its-doors-84-to-lose-jobs-in-6028043.php
- ↑ https://www.nhregister.com/business/article/Xpect-Discounts-to-shutter-all-Connecticut-stores-11354774.php
- ↑ https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/last-3-xpect-discount-stores-closing/2049573/