Staples is looking to make a comeback after surviving a failed merger attempt and is hoping to boost sales and keep pace with Amazon through improving its eCommerce marketplace.
The coveted back-to-school shopping season is fast approaching, and it’s a key one for office supplies companies like Staples, according to Internet Retailer. In order to gear up for this busy season, Staples has added over 1,000 products to its eCommerce store, including higher-end tech products, like fancy headphones and tablets, and is also looking to increase delivery times and offer same-day shipping as well.
Staples, which is located in Framingham, MA, announced in June plans to offer a same-day delivery service known as Staples Rush in Dallas, Boston and Manhattan. The service costs $14.99 per delivery, and Staples seeks to expand Staples Rush to other large metropolitan cities, like Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, by the end of the year.
Staples is hoping that these new initiatives will be enough to bump up its sales and also help it keep pace with and compete against an ever-expanding Amazon, which has slowly begun selling pretty much everything that one can find at a brick-and-mortar Staples store or other office supplies retailers online and usually at a steeper discounted price (plus free shipping if you’re an Amazon Prime member).
Staples was listed as the number five internet retailer of 2016 by the Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide (Amazon, unsurprisingly, came in at the top spot).
A robust back-to-school shopping season is imperative for Staples if it is going to keep pace with the rapidly expanding Amazon and bounce back from a $6.3 billion attempted merger with Office Depot that was squashed by federal regulators in May.
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