theatlantic:

The Death of Retail: The Economics of the (Doomed) Office Depot/OfficeMax Merger

Cool news for consumers. Bad news for an industry that employs one out of ten American workers. 

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“Office Depot has reportedly agreed to buy OfficeMax to form a super-office-retailing juggernaut that … well, is still 25 percent smaller than Staples and is probably doomed, anyway.” LOL

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    The irony is that my parents and I argue about the way our economy is set up…how it’s doomed to fail. Then they spit out...
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    “Cool news for consumers. Bad news for people who grasp that ‘consumers’ is not a discrete economic category, so any...
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    the truth hurts, when was the last time you saw any activity in any on these locations. Sales tax free weekend before...
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  21. wheretheroadlies said: What about Dunder Mifflin you guys? Smh.