In addition to deeply discounted stationery and greeting cards, Puritan Stationery also offers cold beverages, coffee, balloons, lottery tickets and key making services.
Owner Albert Rossetti admits that big box retailers like Staples and Office Depot actually provide a boon for his office supply store, a town fixture since 1987. People who need printing services need good personal service, says Rossetti, and that's what customers will get at Executive.
In business since 1928, the News Store has seen four generations of owners working behind the shop's wood and glass counters, selling general merchandise that includes newspapers, magazines, Hallmark greetings cards, Nat Sherman cigarettes, Parker pen refills and bestselling paperbacks. Darien News is personalized with photos of jazz greats like Miles Davis and is also home to the owner's amazingly quiet Amazon parrots, Ben and Bobby.