http://www.thelayoff.com/staples/post/5720161067728896
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This deal is only good for Ron Sargent and a few activist shareholders that own both OD and Staples stock. Do what you can to block it. Grass roots efforts help. Comcast just lost it's bid to buy TWC because of community effort. The same could happen here.
Phone:
202.326.3100
Bureau of Competition
Federal Trade Comission
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Robert Jones - director
rjones@ftc.go
The proposed merger between Staples and Office Max is a bad idea for employees, employees family, consumers, and the economic climate of the country.
- Staples executives have recently been overheard saying "
Staples plans for 1700 Officedepot closures. Officer compares it to when NEC purchased Pacakrd Bell with sole purpose of Killing competitor".
If this is correct by any number there will be tens of thousands of people loosing their jobs. This will not only hurt the employee it will hurt their families and will be a huge detriment to the US economy.
An average Office Depot / Max store has between 20-30 people. If you multiply that by 1700 stores that is between 34,000 - 51, 000. This doesn't take into account the domino effect that this will have on the economy.
This deal is not here to help consumers at all. Consumers will not have any physical brick and mortar stores to choose from. If Staples doesn't have that chair well you can't go anywhere else there is no longer any competition. So, the customer will be forced to order online if they choose to go elsewhere and wait for shipping. If the customer has a bad experience with Staples they are not able to go anywhere else because there would be no where else to go. If a customer wants a great deal on a product well guess what - that paper that is $2.00 a ream on Amazon is now $8.00 a ream at Staples (no physical competition). That desk that wasn't delivered correctly and was finally delivered a week later but broke customer; deal with it. There isn't anyone else to deal with.
Staples will take ever advantage they can of the consumer knowing that the consumer will not have anywhere else to turn as far as a brick and mortar store.
I am hoping everyone who is in a seat of power to make this decision is looking at this from every angle because this is bad for the economy, bad for the consumer, and bad for the thousands employees who will suffer.
Wow