The US media is full of reports that US stationery / office products giant Staples is in talks to purchase smaller rival Office Depot for a reported US$6.3B.
The merging of the two businesses, if it proceeded, would create a company of extraordinary size and might.
Staples in Australia owns what was Corporate Express. We have little understanding here of what they have they done in the US in the retail stationery space. Imagine Officeworks but better: more aggressive, more locations, more engaged with small business customers.