Four of the last five local office supply companies that my office has used, have gone out of business. I know that the big chain store that came in made it hard for them to compete but I just wish that they would have put their heads together and been able to order the big quantities of office supplies and then pass it on to the customers and they might have been able to stay in business longer.

Our downtown looks like a ghost town with all of the little mom and pop stores closing because of all the big chain type stores that have moved in out by the mall. I know that both of the hardware stores are having a rough time competing with the big home improvement store that opened up a year ago.

So, my office is once again looking for an office supply company, but we know that there really is not anyone local and we do not want to use the big store for our office supplies. I decided to look on the internet and see if we could find a good affordable and reliable company that would ship our office supplies directly to us and I was able to find a couple different ones.