Former retail big closed over 1,000 areas

Some types of retail work higher in a brick-and-mortar retailer than they do on-line.

Clothes and footwear, for instance, advantages from the power to strive the objects on. Even individuals who put on the identical measurement throughout a number of manufacturers someday placed on an outfit, a pair of sneakers, or some fancy footwear solely to search out that they do not match proper.

The web shines, nonetheless, on objects that do not must be held, touched, or tried on. That has made some retailers extra susceptible than others.

Workplace provide chains, which incorporates Workplace Depot and Staples, have been in a sluggish, regular decline.

“Workplace provide shops as a sector make use of some 60,000 folks and herald $10.3 billion in income within the U.S., which is projected to say no roughly 2% a 12 months by way of 2026, in line with analysis agency IBISWorld.

That has led to Workplace Depot closing greater than half its shops since 2013, a course of that has continued with the chain’s most up-to-date shutdowns.

Workplace Depot has been in a gentle decline

Workplace Depot merged with Workplace Max in 2013, with the mixed chain working about 1,900 U.S. shops following the merger, in line with the Dallas Morning Information.

On the time of the deal, the 2 corporations mentioned they deliberate to shut 400 shops. The trade was already in decline, in line with FOX Enterprise.

“Workplace provide shops are preventing a battle for relevance, with buyers more and more shopping for their paper, toner and expertise on-line from Amazon.com Inc, drugstores or mass retailers. Analysts overlaying workplace provide shops have lengthy known as for consolidation in what they see as a cluttered sector whose gross sales crumbled over the past recession,” FOX reported.

The corporate, which is not public, reported in a an SEC submitting that it had 822 areas as of Nov. 5, 2025.

It has continued to shed areas since then, however not gives a retailer depend because it doesn’t must report outcomes as a personal firm.

Workplace Depot continues to slowly shrink.Shutterstock

These Workplace Depot areas have closed since Nov. 2025

Excessive Level, NC: Workplace Depot closed its longtime retailer on the Peters Plaza IV procuring middle at 274 Eastchester Drive on Dec. 20., in line with the Excessive Level Enterprise.
Fresno, CA: The Workplace Depot on Divisadero Road shut down Feb. 21 after greater than 30 years in enterprise, with workers saying the property proprietor declined to resume the lease, reported CBS47.
Ballard (Seattle), WA: The OfficeMax in Ballard closed April 11, 2026 with the constructing having been bought by AutoZone for $7.8 million in late 2025, in line with My Ballard.
Porterville, CA: The OfficeMax at 1260 W. Henderson Ave., the town’s solely main workplace provide retailer, is closing, a part of a pickup in OfficeMax closures that accelerated in 2025, reported Recorder On-line.
Merriam, KS: The OfficeMax at Merriam City Middle close to Johnson Drive and Antioch Street is closing, with liquidation gross sales already underway after greater than a decade at that location, in line with Johnson County Put up.

The next areas seem like closed primarily based social media studies, which TheStreet confirmed through the use of the chain’s retailer locator instrument and seeing that they’re not listed.

Pensacola, FL: The Workplace Depot at 4337 W. Fairfield Dr. closed in 2026.
Albuquerque, NM : The previous OfficeMax at 40 Resort Circle NE closed in 2026.
Eugene, OR: The Workplace Depot at 2859 Chad Dr. is ready to shut in 2026.
Meridian, MS: The Workplace Depot at 110 fifteenth Place South closed in 2026, per neighborhood monitoring information; no native information protection recognized.

Workplace Depot continues to shut shops.

“The retailer is shuttering shops in Grapevine and in Irving, in line with signage on the outlets on Tuesday [June 30[. It’s not clear when the sites will close. Both had window displays saying they would be open on Independence Day,” the Dallas Morning News reported.

Amazon has taken market share

Office supplies like printer paper, pens, notepads, and more are commodities that people can buy without making a dedicated trip.

“Even supermarkets have an aisle for office supplies,” IBISWorld Lead Analyst Brigette Thomas told Retail Dive. “But I think the biggest is definitely Amazon.”

Amazon has taken office supply sales for much the same reason Walmart and Target took market share from Toys “R” Us years ago. Consumers no longer make a dedicated trip for many commodity purchases. Instead, they buy office supplies while they’re already shopping elsewhere or simply add them to an online order.

“Amazon became the largest retailer in the United States in terms of gross merchandise value sometime in 2025, overtaking Walmart, Seeking Alpha reported Thursday (June 25), citing a report by J.P. Morgan.

IBISWorld data shows that the decline in the office supplies space has been steady.

“The firm noted that office supplies stores as an industry have suffered ‘consistent revenue declines’ every year going back to 2005, due both to competition and the digitization of work itself. The industry declined by an average annual rate of 6.7% since 2016, according to the data.

In order for the chain to survive, RTM Nexus CEO Dominick Miserandino believes that a major change is needed.

“In most cases, there’s no reason to visit these stores just to buy office supplies,” he told TheStreet. “One of the pivots I’ve been seeing recently though is the office supply stores becoming more in person, event, conference places where you could print your signs and other deliverables.”

This story was originally published by TheStreet on Jul 1, 2026, where it first appeared in the Retail section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.