Xpect Discounts to shutter all Connecticut stores within 12 months

By Luther Turmelle
Register Staff
The parent company of XPect Discounts has told East Haven officials that the grocery chain will close all of its remaining Connecticut stores over the next 12 months.
Sal Brancati, East Haven’s director of administration and management, said officials of XPect Discount’s corporate parent, Parma, Ohio-based Marc Glassman Inc., told him recently they are closing all of the chain’s remaining locations in the state, in Danbury, Milford, East Haven and Cromwell. The East Haven store is located at 78 Frontage Road .
“It’s not going to happen overnight, but they told us that they don’t want to do business in Connecticut anymore,” Brancati said. Town officials are close to lining up a new tenant for the building, he said.

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