Edward McGee was a few years removed from having earned his degree in business administration at Western Connecticut State University when an idea sparked. That idea, which popped into his wife Valerie’s mind: Open a store selling uniforms and equipment to first responders and postal workers. The Danbury area at that time, in the mid-1970s, was the fourth fastest-growing area in the U.S., McGee learned. They both worked for the U.S. Postal Service at the time. McGee, who had to shop out-of-town for his own uniform, determined there was local demand for a business that catered to public service employees. That would become their business’s “niche,” as McGee learned in his WestConn economics courses.
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