Staples & Office Depot Ask Judge To Toss Antitrust Lawsuit Without Defending...
Two weeks after the beginning of a federal court hearing on the proposed mega-merger between Office Depot and Staples, the office supply chains’ lawyers have decided not to present a defense against...
View ArticleStaples And Office Depot Will Move On As Strong, Confident, Single Office...
Plans for other things at Staples and Office Depot have been on hold for months now, as the two companies waited to find out whether the Federal Trade Commission would allow their proposed merger to go...
View ArticleThe FTC Has Called Off Its Administrative Trial Of Staples-Office Depot Merger
Last week, Staples and Office Depot called off their proposed merger, which would have brought together the biggest and second-biggest office supply retailer into a single paperclip-selling Voltron....
View ArticleThis Is Probably Office Depot’s Top-Secret ‘Store Of The Future’
After the United States government stood in their way and disrupted their union, Staples and Office Depot broke their year-long engagement earlier this month, deciding not to merge. Now they need to...
View ArticleOffice Depot To Close 300 More Stores, Expand “Store Of The Future” Pilot
There will be 300 fewer Office Depot stores in the U.S. by the end of 2019 as part of the office supply chain’s attempt to cut costs and move on from its failed billion-dollar merger with Staples. The...
View ArticleOffice Depot CEO Roland Smith Stepping Down After Failed Staples Merger
The failed marriage of Office Depot and Staples has claimed another CEO. Nearly three months after Staples chief Ron Sargent made his sad exit, the Depot’s top exec Roland Smith announced his...
View ArticleOffice Depot Rewarding College Students Who Resist Their Smartphones During...
While no one on the Consumerist staff has been in college in, uh, some time, we can imagine it must be tough to focus on education when you’ve got a smartphone in your pocket, just begging you to play...
View ArticleOffice Depot Allegedly Diagnosing Computers With Nonexistent Viruses To Meet...
Retailers upselling customers on services they don’t need is nothing new, but a new report claims that some Office Depot employees are falsely claiming computers are infected with viruses in order to...
View ArticleSenator Calls For Investigation Into Office Depot’s Alleged Computer Scanning...
Following a whistleblower report that some Office Depot staffers are allegedly falsely telling customers their computers are infected with viruses in order to sell them on unnecessary repair services,...
View Article12 Indicted In Massive Organized Retail Theft Ring That Spanned 28 States, 20...
When someone mentions the takedown of an organized crime ring, the first thing to come to mind is probably something along the lines of The Sopranos. But in New York today, the Attorney General’s...
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