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Office Depot on Seigen closing down
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:07 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:07 am
Company doesn’t want to spend the money it would take to keep the store from being robbed blind. Was once the most profitable OD in BR.
Heard it from a relative who works for them.
Heard it from a relative who works for them.
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Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:09 am to EST
Goddam liberals
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:10 am to EST
I go to an Office Depot/Max once every couple of years for something random and I’m the only customer there every time. I predict they go the way of BlockBuster and Circuit City before 2030.
ETA: who the frick robs an Office Depot?
“We need some money mane, what we finna do?”
“I got a dope arse idea, Felon’tre...let’s rob dat Office Depot! Dey got a ton of cash!”
ETA: who the frick robs an Office Depot?
“We need some money mane, what we finna do?”
“I got a dope arse idea, Felon’tre...let’s rob dat Office Depot! Dey got a ton of cash!”
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 2:13 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:11 am to EST
Ecommerce has a lot to do with the brick-n-motor demise. More examples of this will happen in the coming years.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:20 am to Breauxsif
Trying to think of something I would go into an Office Depot to buy vs buying online and having delivered.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:26 am to fightin tigers
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Trying to think of something I would go into an Office Depot to buy
It’s almost always an emergency situation involving printer ink for me. Other than that, I got some paper clips for my girlfriend’s office, composition notebooks, and a plastic tote lol
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:34 am to EST
Staples is about to buy office depot. Seriously.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:38 am to fightin tigers
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Trying to think of something I would go into an Office Depot to buy vs buying online and having delivered.
I needed some Google Earth images blown up to 24X36 and printed asap. I uploaded them to the Office Depot website and picked them up at the local store an hour later.
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 2:54 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 3:12 am to GEAUXmedic
OD turned down their original deal to buy them, so we will see. I personally like the Office Depot off of college, always has the stuff I need in stock right there, but definitely can see them going out of business at some point.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 4:59 am to RT1980
Total Wines is going up in that location. It was announced months ago.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 5:35 am to EST
just checked their stock-
up 64% the past month
up 64% the past month
Posted on 1/24/21 at 6:01 am to FishQuiz
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Total Wines is going up in that location. It was announced months ago.
I heard the same
Posted on 1/24/21 at 6:20 am to EST
It could be the large , mostly White opiate addict population that resides just feet from their front door.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 6:28 am to EST
Office Depot has closed other locations in other cities. An economic move right now when everyone is ordering online and having supplies delivered rather than walk-in to a physical location. Nothing whatsoever to do with anyone robbing anyone, OP. Thanks for adding your contribution to the false narrative pile of bullshite.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 6:46 am to PhantomMenace
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An economic move right now when everyone is ordering online and having supplies delivered rather than walk-in to a physical location.
I have always wondered why some of the smaller National retailers don’t retrofit select stores in a given market area and use UPS or FedEx logistics to get nationwide one day ground delivery on every item in a well stocked retrofitted store, that is essentially a mini warehouse. In some areas even offer local delivery with in house same day delivery services. In other areas offer smaller more efficient stores.
My big issue with Best Buy and Office Depot in Houma, is that even though they are national chains they never carry enough specialized inventory or certain electronics to meet my needs.
Also, I know this may sound crazy, but retailers may need to go back to the days of a franchise model. Let local owners drive local sales. But in today’s world of corporate micromanagement and thin profit margins that doesn’t seem likely. Also, owning stores means they more than likely own the real estate they sit own unless they lease the space.
Large retailers could build a large real estate portfolio too under a franchise model as that is the same model McDonald’s uses.
McDonalds builds the restaurants and leases the restaurant to the franchisees. McDonalds owns the real estate (except for the collocated restaurants like the ones in Walmart and gas stations those are more than likely leased locations. Also McDonald’s shut down a number of those locations as they are not high revenue locations since the don’t have a drive thru and may even have a limited menu.)
Under the McDonald’s model if the franchisee is terrible, they come in without a blink of an eye and take it over and find a new franchisee.
The same could be done in retail.
This was done in the past with Ben Franklin Stores, but they didn't own the store.
Walmart founder Sam Walton started out as a Ben Franklin store owner. He quickly found ways to break the mold of the Ben Franklin model and create his own brand by using a low prices strategy and buying up large inventories and selling them at low prices.
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 8:03 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 6:54 am to IIxxBREADxxII
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It could be the large , mostly White opiate addict population that resides just feet from their front door.
They’ve probably been stealing all their sharpies for years to make those signs
Posted on 1/24/21 at 6:58 am to Will Munny
Dunder Mifflin for the win.
Also, I love me some Total Wine, but I have a feeling the bums are really going to ruin that location.
Also, I love me some Total Wine, but I have a feeling the bums are really going to ruin that location.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:08 am to GEAUXmedic
quote:Staples already bought CEXP around the time OD bought Office Max. We went from literally 1000's of mom and pop office dealers to Staples and just a few competitors in less than 25 years. Guess where Staples outsourced most of their products from in the same time frame? Muh Globalmuhization.
Staples is about to buy office depot. Seriously
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:17 am to EST
OD has become a miserable shopping experience. Sometimes you need something then and now. Sometimes I simply like browsing for a type of product and online doesn’t always cut it.
It’s always ironic to me when brands decontent inventories to the point where in person shopping is futile, then they complain stores must close because shoppers prefer online.
OD on College Dr has probably a quarter of the inventory it once held, and that remaining is mostly cheap off brand crap from the land of Asshoe.
It’s always ironic to me when brands decontent inventories to the point where in person shopping is futile, then they complain stores must close because shoppers prefer online.
OD on College Dr has probably a quarter of the inventory it once held, and that remaining is mostly cheap off brand crap from the land of Asshoe.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:19 am to Boring
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It’s almost always an emergency situation involving printer ink for me.
Paper, printer ink, pins etc
Sometimes they have better deals than Amazon, but I still order that online and pick it up or have it delivered. But yeah there are some emergency situations where running down the street to office Depot is very clutch
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