Office Depot Company Case Study

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Staples competition ranges from online retailers to traditional brick and mortar stores and international distributers. The company is rapidly expanding the available inventory, product selection, and services. The competition faced with mass merchants such as Amazon.com, Walmart, and Target has been steadily increasing. However, the major competitors remain Office Depot, which merged with Office Max in 2013, and Amazon.com.
The commercial segment of the organization is competing against a growing and extremely diverse group of large retailers like Sams Club, Costco, and Online distributers for international office product and technology suppliers. Staples print, copy, and paper product lines are met with a steady stream of online competition …show more content…

The bid was originally announced in February. Office Depot bought OfficeMax two years ago, reducing the Big Three in office supplies to the Big Two, at a time sales were in serious decline as rivals like Amazon.com and Walmart among many others were stealing market share. Staples also fights with the likes of Costco Wholesale and FedEx in the commercial market. (Wahba, 2015) Amazon.com: Amazon represents a serious threat and the strongest competitor for Staples. Amazon is a business to business online retailer, as well as, online consumer retailer. They maintain a dominance in the online retailing market with highly competitive pricing and an extremely efficient shipping and distribution system.
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August 2016 Financial Guidance (source Staples.com, Company Overview)
• The company plans to get back to earnings growth in …show more content…

This is an opportunity to reach a large demographic and expand into emerging technological markets. As more consumers move to e-commerce and their main shopping venue, the need to manage high cost, larger retail stores dimensions. The money saved in operating costs can be allocated elsewhere.
3D Printing: Every year the 3D printing equipment becomes more advanced and user friendly. 3D printing goes hand in hand with e-commerce. The ability to purchase an item online and simply print it out at your home and office may eventually eliminate the need for large numbers of traditional stores, and lower overhead costs. Eventually, smaller product inventory will be needed, since people can print the items at home. This is of course a future possibility, none the less, it should be considered a viable opportunity.
Popularity: Staples is a well-known and established company worldwide.
Global expansion: Staples has 2000 stores worldwide and is expanding to the Middle East, South America and

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