{"id":274,"date":"2015-02-04T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=274"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:31:58","slug":"staples-pushes-the-easy-button-and-gobbles-up-office-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Staples Pushes the Easy Button and Gobbles up Office Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staples-3p.com\/s7\/is\/image\/Staples\/s0105150_sc7?$splssku$\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Office Depot merged with Office Max, you figured this was coming. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/02\/04\/investing\/staples-office-depot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Staples is buying Office Depot<\/a>\u00a0for $6.3 billion and will become the sole mass marketer for stationery\/office supplies. \u00a0Much like Best Buy for electronics, they&#8217;ll be the only game in town for a while but with a declining market and increased competition from Amazon, Walmart, etc. \u00a0I can&#8217;t see them staying viable for long. \u00a0 \u00a0The deal will still need approval from regulators but will likely go through. \u00a0So grab your Office Depot and Office Max private label items, because they will soon be collectors items only. \u00a0Another (two) bites the dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Office Depot merged with Office Max, you figured this was coming. \u00a0Staples is buying Office Depot\u00a0for $6.3 billion and will become the sole mass marketer for stationery\/office supplies. \u00a0Much like Best Buy for electronics, they&#8217;ll be the only game in town for a while but with a declining market and increased competition from Amazon, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=274\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}