OFFICE MONOPOLY 
Note: Story has been updated.
Houston Business Journal reports that Office Max and Office Depot are combining into one global office force to be reckoned with. The $1.17-billion, all-stock deal between the two big-box paper pushers is expected to create a single company — with less overhead and less overlap, too, you’d think — that’s worth $18 billion. Also, the Houston Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff reports that developer Ed Wulfe says that “9 or 10 of the 40 Office Depots and 19 Office Maxes in greater Houston are close enough to each other that one will have to close.” One of those, pictured here, is located in the strip center at Richmond and Kirby. [Houston Business Journal; Prime Property] Photo: Panoramio user Wolfgang Houston
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Half of the time I couldn’t even tell which one of them I was in, I just needed something Avery.
Competition is so….20th century.
What about Staples?
essentially an office supply monopoly, at least in central Houston.
Staples FTW anyway
Basically anything in them you can get from Costco or Amazon. I am not sure what the point of these stores is anyways.
Personally I have used one sheet of paper for my job in the past six months.
Spoonman: Totally. I banned faxes from my office and had a ban on printers until property managers decided sometimes they “needed” to print. So they’re charged $1 a page out of pocket to print something. Whoever has the most printing, buys ink when we’re out. Amazing how little paper started being used.
Are they closing this location?