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Remember Staples - the office equipment suppliers? They use to have large stores in most larger towns and cities.
Maybe few have noticed that they're not around any more. Staples haven't gone bust -they've gone online. In November 2016, Staples stores were purchased by Hilco Capital and are now under new ownership. 'Office Outlet' is now operating as a separate business to Staples UK Limited, which includes Staples Online website and telephone order line, and Staples Advantage. In Hull, the first thing that Office Outlet did was to close the large Staples store in the town (ironically, next door to Maplin!), and to move to a site on the inner ring road next to the likes of Halfords, PC World, The Range.
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I remember them because in Leicester there was one next door to Maplin. Not sure what to make of that co-incidence, but this one morphed into 'Office World' a year or two back. I had wondered whether they had been taken over. In the meantime, Maplin moved across the road and their new store could not have been open more than a couple of years.