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CUSTOMERS suggested a popular retailer should shut down altogether after a location put up signs announcing it was closing.
OfficeMax, owned by Office Depot, is closing a store in Phoenix, Arizona.
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A local shopper posted a photo of a large closing sign hung up on the door of the store.
The sign said, "This location only," but the shopper, Serafino Diaz-Mazzei, claimed multiple have shut down.
"OfficeMax should just consider going out of business altogether," he wrote in a Facebook post.
He said locations were closing every few weeks.
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"Locations here are dropping like flies," he said of Arizona.
In the comments, another shopper said the nearest Office Depot was also closed.
Another shopper wasn't aware the stores still existed after the company was taken over by Office Depot.
"When OfficeMax and Office Depot became one company, I knew this was coming. Surprised it took so long what with Amazon and literally any other retailer on Earth selling the same stuff at a third of the price," commented one customer.
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Others said that competitor Staples was the better option.
"Office Max is utter trash. Office Depot is okay for some things that Target doesn't carry, but they've lost their way," wrote a shopper.
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In May, Office Max announced that a location in Kansas City, Missouri, would close on June 8.
Before that, an OfficeMax location in Indiana closed, and another Office Depot in Illinois closed in November.
The stores offered closing sales between 30% and 60% off.
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The entire retail industry has been plagued by closures.
Even Walgreens, one of the country's largest drugstore chains, announced that up to 25% of its stores will close.
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As an independent chain, OfficeMax was the third-largest office supply retailer in the country.
It became a subsidiary of Office Depot after a 2013 merger.
After the merger, many stores retained the OfficeMax branding while others were changed into Office Depot stores.
Between 2020 and 2021, more than 260 Office Depot stores shuttered.
Then, in 2022, more than 70 locations closed.
"Approximately 25% of Walgreens stores are not contributing to our long-term strategy. We’re finalizing an optimization program that we expect will include closing a significant portion of these locations over the next three year," a spokesperson for Walgreens told The U.S. Sun.
"We are also taking a series of actions and making investments to enhance the customer and patient experience."
Locations in Delaware, California, Iowa, and Georgia have already been announced as closing, and more are to come.
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