How Three Guys Turned $1,500 Into A National Retail Chain

Bram Berkowitz
5 min readJan 21, 2019

The following piece was originally posted on Jan. 18, 2019 via Rhode Island Inno and is republished here with permission.

When Long Island natives Marc and Alan Perlman saw what was happening with closeout retailers in New York in the 1970s, they were immediately enamored.

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Bram Berkowitz

Writing about banks, stocks, and startups. Frequently published in The Motley Fool and Rhode Island Inno. Co-founder of The Buzz.