So, Office Depot, Office Max and Staples are now one company. What’s next? Standard Oil coalescing?
“....forward”...
“we can can”/
what a bright shining future that Great Leader is accomplishing
Plus the shipping services with Staples (UPS and USPS) offer more variety than Office Max at least here in our area.
PFL
Is anyone surprised by this?
Who in their right mind would open a 10,000 sq ft store selling office crap and then open another store 5 miles away?
I knew these stores would fold eventually. Now the buildings can be used for other purposes.
Yeah. Competition did it. Not the fact that small business is being slaughtered by the Oligarchy.
As someone who used to manage an office and staff, one of the worst things was sending someone out for supplies. It seemed like normally reliable people would be gone forever. Online ordering is really the only way to go for 75% of the supplies you need for an office these days.
So now Staples’ prices will be even higher?
When we order stuff from Staples it shows up the next morning from a Staples driver.
After their latest bait-and-switch rebate screw job, I decided my locally-owned office store deserves my business a lot more than Staples does.
Just anecdotal evidence, when I have gone to Office Depot, the store is almost empty. There are only 1,or 2 other shoppers In the store Whenever I have gone there. There are more employees than shoppers. I go there often, at different times of day. I have wondered how much business they were really doing.
What frustrates me about all these stores is when you need something today, you go there and pay 4 times what you would pay at monoprice.com for the same item.
I get paying extra for their convenience and their location, but not that much. There is also never anyone knowledgeable to help you if you’re looking for something.
Seems like it’s been in the works for a while - OD going, going, gone...
In my small (University) town we have two Staples and an OD.
Staples was set to close some stores (probably did, just not here) - yet OD has been on a skeleton staff for the last six or more months...
NO ONE asks if they can help you - only two employees at the copy ‘center’ and they do all of the selling and refunding and copying...
The Misses and I used to go there and do 20,000+ copies per year in their copy center (occasionally Staples).
Snarky staff at both places - Imagine a $1,000 order and you treat the buyer with disdain - ‘don’t think you can do this again without a day’s notice!’
Now, I have a very good dedicated printer and we print on our own schedule (we do not spend four hours at OD correcting their atrocious errors) - and save LOTS of money.
Frankly, I hardly EVER buy products at Staples or OD anymore. We have a Wal-Mart, a Costco and the internet - all with longer return envelopes, lower prices and better customer service...
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Postal workers have criticized Staples for years for operating “mini post offices” in dozens of stores. The union says the locations, which are staffed by Staples employees, are exacerbating the Postal Service’s financial problems.
When K-Mart bought Sear’s, they started closing Sear’s and K-Mart stores left and right, combining some. Their parking lots are just as empty as they ever were.