Staples Business Analysis

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Results Staples provide their customers with the information on how they’re doing for each of these strategies. They have graphs like the ones I post above. This shows how Staples is achieving their goals slowly. I have presented graphs early in this report that shows some of their progress that they have had. I think that providing this information in a graph as the years go by is a great way to see what is going on. Lets them be able to look at the information and figure out why something happened the way it is.

The main impact that is driving down Staples’ stocks is its struggle to keep up the foot traffic in its stores. Staples used to be the go-to and popular choice to get your school supplies for the new year. However, that is changing in the recent years with its struggle to compete with its competitors like Walmart; who has very low prices and sells just about everything else in its store making it the one-stop shop that parents love. The Back-to-School season is the main season for Staples to earn the most revenue. In Staples’ Third Quarter of 2015 Earning Release, they said their sales were down 6% compared to the third quarter of 2014, which transcribes as 5.6 billion dollars down in sales. Since this has been a steady trend in the last few years. Staples have announced in its 2014 Annual Report, they “...plan to close at least 225 retail store in North America by the end of the fiscal year or 2015” as part of their restructuring plan. This plan is suppose to help offset the

2. SITUATION ANALYSIS – WEAKNESSES In a recent change within Staples Inc. they have begun to shut down 140 of its 330 stores located across North America under scoring the pressure that big box retailers feel from rival e-commerce and discount players. With the end of the plan resulting in 225 stores being closed down as a choice of Staples trying to reduce their square footage. Due to this change within the company Staples Inc. must take in to account what this change will do to their company’s infrastructures, price, services, and its reputation. An effect from this down size that Staples Inc. many weaknesses have arose within the company itself that should be taken into consideration before they become a major threat to the company.

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Office Depot. Office Depot is known as the second best in the office supplies industry right behind Staples and they also began in 1986 (Hurtibise, 2015). Their first store was in Lauderdale, Florida and there after continued to expand through the southern state. Also, just like Staples they started out by selling the bare office essentials and later as well move further in expanding their product line to draw the attention to gain new customers. In 1996, Staples attempted to purchase Office Depot, but the opportunity was turned down by the FTC and in 2015 both companies attempted to merge; but sadly that was also denied by the FTC stating that both combined as one would be too influential (Hurtibise, 2015). However, in 2013 an approved merger

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