Comparison Of Office Depot, Meijer, And Small School Store

Office Depot, Wal-Mart, Meijer, and small school stores, would be Staples Competitors in the retail business. The reason I have picked these stores is because they sell similar products as Staples. Sometimes these stores could be more convent or even cheaper than Staples. In order for Staples to keep their customers, they need to make sure they can compete with the products, prices and customers satisfaction.
Staples have created the “Staple Advantages” to talk about how they plan to step up efficiencies and bring down costs to compete with their competitors. In the process of stepping up efficiencies, they are trying to transform their operations so that they can lower their cost of products. Another way for them to lower their cost id by

Fortune article call “Staples is Closing Another 50 Stores” by Phil Wahba, talks about why they are closing their stores. Wahba talks about the “battle to win government approval to buy rival Office depot,” (Wahba, 2016)which is what they are closing down so many stores now and in the past. This has cut their sales by 5% and this will continue to drop as they close down more stores. The more stores they close down in some area, people that want to just go to the store to get items are going to go somewhere else instead. I know that in my area they have close down our store and if I want to go to one I have to go to Brighton or Novi. Because of this, I tend to go to Wal-Mart or Meijer to get my office supplies most of the time. They are coming close to winning the buy out of Office Depot soon, so I believe their sales will start to increase

They seem to have a clear line of what they want and a clear vision on how they are going to get it. All of their ideas seem to work together and have a core meaning.
Clear Objectives
Staples are a unique store in its own that it offers just office supplies and needs for any business. But there are other places that allow you to get the same products as well. To be it would be have to prove that is has shown its differences in the market. They are pushing the strategies to become more of an ecofriendly business but that is going to take some time. Almost every store has online stores just like Staples, even though Staples is ranked pretty high compared to Amazon they still have to compete with other super stores offering stuff online.
I believe that if Staples could really grow on their going green they might be able to make a big change and become the main source for supplies and not have to work about other