Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Waterford, CT

Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Waterford, CT

  May 13, 2018    Robby S.

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BENNY'S HOME AND AUTO STORES
40 BOSTON POST ROAD
WATERFORD, CONN
CLOSED FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Hi everyone! This is my fourth post about Benny's Home and Auto stores, and the conclusion of my four part series of the Benny's stores in my immediate area. Also, be sure to check out BrandHistoryUSA's Complete Directory of Benny's locations, which has some stats for each of Benny's locations up to the time of its closure.

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Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Old Saybrook, CT

Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Old Saybrook, CT

  May 12, 2018    Robby S.

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BENNY'S HOME AND AUTO STORES
1654 BOSTON POST ROAD
OLD SAYBROOK, CONN 
CLOSED 2017

Welcome back to week three of my four-week coverage on Benny's Home and Auto Stores!

Today's location is in Old Saybrook, CT on Boston Post Road, right near Kohl's and Big Y Supermarket and just off of Interstate 95.

This particular location closed in October 2017 alongside many other Benny's location.

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Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Westerly, RI

Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Westerly, RI

  May 06, 2018    Robby S.

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BENNY'S HOME AND AUTO STORES
248 POST ROAD
WESTERLY, RI
CLOSED 2017

Alright everyone... Over the next few weeks I'm going to start a mini-series covering some of the former Benny's Home and Auto locations throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island.

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Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Norwich, CT

Benny's Home and Auto Stores - Norwich, CT

  May 05, 2018    Robby S.

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BENNY'S HOME AND AUTO STORES
35 NEW LONDON TNPK
NORWICH, CT
CLOSED 6 OCTOBER 2017

Welcome back to week 2 of my Benny's Home and Auto Store documentation series!

This week, we'll be taking a look at the Norwich, CT location located on New London Turnpike. The store is located directly across the street from the Norwichtown Commons (Formerly called Norwichtown Mall) which is currently anchored by a Stop and Shop and Big Lots.

I totally stumbled across this location by accident as I was up in the Norwich area for some driving classes, but seeing this Benny's store I had to stop!

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BENNY'S HOME & AUTO STORES - COMPLETE DIRECTORY

BENNY'S HOME & AUTO STORES - COMPLETE DIRECTORY

  February 08, 2018    Robby S.

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So, if you’ve been following BrandHistoryUSA for a while, you’ve probably seen my few articles on Benny’s Home and Auto Stores, which is a small chain of New England-based Home and Auto Stores.

After Benny's closed all of their stores at the end of 2017, I thought that I’d take things to the next level. Since Benny’s quite unceremoniously took their store locator offline and it’s almost impossible to compile a complete list of stores based off of the sporadic news articles on the dying chain, I thought that I’d assemble my own. 

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Benny's Home and Auto Stores, Groton, CT

Benny's Home and Auto Stores, Groton, CT

  February 07, 2018    Robby S.

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© Romulo R via Yelp

BENNY’S HOME AND AUTO
GROTON, CONN
65 PLAZA COURT
CLOSED SEPTEMBER 2017

The Benny’s Home and Auto Stores brand was a chain of hardware stores that dominated the New England hardware store market ever since the first Benny’s opened its doors in November 1924 in Providence, Rhode Island.

39 years later, in 1963, Benny’s Groton location opened its doors, quickly becoming the chain’s flagship store. 

As it stands, the Groton Benny’s is located in the Groton Shopping Plaza, alongside a strip of small, independent barber shops, electronic stores, and other locally owned shops.

Benny’s thrived in an era where other brick-and-mortar stores such as Wal-Mart was present, likely a combination of the chain’s notoriety for carrying hard-to-find items alongside its regional charm.                                                  

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