Office Depot, Inc. founded in 1986, and one of the world's largest sellers of office products and an industry leader in every distribution channel, including stores, direct mail, contract delivery, the Internet and business-to-business electronic commerce has become an Authorized Apple Reseller.
Office Depot is selling Apple products via its online store. "The partnership between Apple and Office Depot is freshly inked, and currently Apple products are only available from Office Depot's online store. However, Office Depot officials confirmed that Apple products would begin appearing at its retail stores in the coming months," Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. More here.
"You can take advantage of one stop shopping for all your office supply needs and now all of your Apple technology needs in one convenient location," the Office Depot website states.
Link to the Apple section of the Office Depot site here.
Nice, and a big selection of Apple products, at that... even the long-awaited iPod mini's, but no AirPort Express, despite having an image of it. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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The point isn't whether or not it's in Canada or not - the point is that that's one more big retail chain taking up Apple products and helping promote Apple products.
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These deals never last, the big retailers always come back and demand deep discounts, fatter margins and exclusive deals, Apple never goes along with any of the above and they are ultimately dropped.
It happens over and over again,
The big retailers like suppliers who will fight to the death for a penny,
To say nothing of the salesmen who want nothing to do with Macs.
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I have to ditto Trevor on this one. Apple hardware (except for the iPod) usually never does well in big retail chains. Creating Apple Stores, I think, is a better idea.
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