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So we now effectively have an office supply monopoly? Ugh.

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > So we now effectively have an office supply monopoly? We have a retail office supply specialty chain physical store monoculture, but actual retail sales of office supplies also take place at non-specialty physical stores, at non-chain physical stores, and, most significantly, online (both from specialized and general retailers), and for most transactions customers easily substitute among those groups. So a single-entity dominating the brick-and-mortar chain subcategory is hardly a "monopoly".
• jimbokun 12y ago
  As other's have pointed out in this discussion, Amazon and Walmart's Sam's Club are probably more than enough competition to keep prices in check in the office supply market.