Staples is buying Office Depot in a $6.3 billion deal

[Poke]

That's allot of money.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7976231/staples-is-buying-office-depot

 

[dfergie]

Staples agrees to buy Office Depot for $6.3 billion
Would have thought it would have been Office depot buying Staples ...

 

[osu1991]

I quit using Office Depot. Everything I buy for the office is 50-70% more than Sams or Amazon. I can occasionally get competitive prices at Staples but still when OEM toner cartridges are $110 at Office Depot $80 at Staple and $50 at Sam's or Amazon. I won't be going with the first 2.

Copy Paper $8 a ream at Office Depot. $2.50 at Walmart.

Office Depot and Staples are competitive on office furniture and occasionally computers but everything else not so much.

 

[dfergie]

We had an Office Depot for maybe 6 months about 10 years ago before they left, nearest Staples is an 80 mile drive, I buy BD-RW's there if I need one and can't wait.

 

[jayn_j]

No staples close by. Office Depot closed a few months ago. There are 2 Office max locations within 10 miles. I believe Office max and Depot combined a few years ago.

I am buying most office supplies from Target or Costco and Amazon for the less common stuff. The Office stores just aren't competitive and lately they are less likely to actually stock what I want.

 

[navychop]

I hope anti-trust considerations kill the deal. I hated it when Staples bought Quill.

 

[dfergie]

I take that back it's not a Staples in UFO land but an Office Max...

 

[TheKrell]

it's not a Staples in UFO land

Roswell, NM? I love NM. (Dissertation experiment done in Los Alamos.)

 

[dfergie]

Yep Roswell, be going there Saturday maybe ...

 

[TheKrell]

Not much there IIRC, other than the VLA which is pretty impressive. But I really love ABQ and the trolley up the mountain (Rio Grande sometimes turns into a river of molten gold at sunset), and of course Sante Fe and Los Alamos.

 

[dfergie]

Back country down South has it's perks along with not that many people...