Staples to buy Office Depot – There’s about to be one game in town when it comes to office supplies.

Posted on February 4, 2015February 5, 2015 by 21cpw

Staples (SPLS) announced Wednesday it intends to buy rival Office Depot (ODP) in a $6.3 billion deal, betting that the key to higher profits is operating on an even larger scale. That’s the same calculation Office Depot made not long ago, when it bought OfficeMax. “Office Depot will make Staples bigger, and most importantly, we…

Postal Service begins expanding into 1500 Staples

Posted on October 30, 2014October 30, 2014 by 21cpw

(October 29, 2014) The Postal Service announced back in July that it was ending its pilot program to put mini-post offices in Staples stores. The 82 postal counters it had set up last October would be transitioned to the Approved Shipper program, which has been around for years without causing much controversy. (The Postal Service explained…

A Staples Diet for Postal Workers

Posted on July 26, 2014July 26, 2014 by 21cpw

(July 24, 2015) More than 1,000 postal workers and allies gathered in downtown Chicago on Tuesday to promote a boycott against Staples as part of the American Postal Workers Union’s “Stop Staples” campaign. Late last year, the office supply giant set up “mini post offices” inside 82 outlets around the country, provoking anger among workers…