Marc Glassman Inc historyGlassman started as a regular employee in the 1970s. He served as a store manager at one of Bernie Shulman’s mega-discount drug stores in Ohio.
In 1979, Glassman opened his first Marc’s store located on the west side of Cleveland, in Middleburg Heights’ Southland Shopping Center. He modeled his store after Bernie’s.
In less than a year, Glassman had his first setback when a fire almost destroyed his store in October of 1980, which broke out from the adjacent J.C. Penney department store.
In 1983, Glassman started to expand his business. His first purchase was a location of Bernie’s, then established more stores within the greater metropolitan areas of Ohio.