Office Supplies

[KristineS]

Convenience can be a major selling point, Linda, as you pointed out. That could be one way that a local, smaller store could differentiate itself from the big box guys. I'm with you, if someone will bring the paper to me instead of me having to carry it, I'll probably be willing to pay a bit more for that service.

I guess it's about finding a niche that they big box guys don't cover. Delivery would certainly be one area.

[llcollins82]

we are 98% paperless, so we generally don't buy any office supplies. if we ever need anything like batteries, post-its or paper for our fax machine we just get it at Target or Office Max because it is close to our building.

is anyone else paperless here?

[KristineS]

we try to be paperless, but so far haven't managed it. I'm not sure we ever will.

[Business Attorney]

Gads! It seems like we have more paper in our office than we have ever had.

A lot of things have changed. Email has largely supplanted my use of letterhead and envelopes, for example.

But with high speed printers, it is easier to print out a whole new draft of a document when a secretary makes changes on several pages. Instead of giving me pages 3, 4, 7, 11 and 13 to replace, I get a new document. I try to review documents as much as I can on the screen, but if the document is very long, flipping back and forth on paper is much easier than constantly scrolling back and forth through the document on the screen.

[KristineS]

I know what you mean David.

I'm the Director of Marketing for our companies. You have to print stuff out to see color and to make corrections. It won't work any other way. We end up throwing out a lot of paper, but the majority of it gets recycled for printing in house orders and stuff. It's just the way things work.

[orion_joel]

I am very close to paperless, except for the inevitable back-up of financial records such as supplier invoices, bills and everything else that may be needed in the event that a audit or something takes place, by the tax department. For the most part i try to email invoices to clients, and have had the same box of 500 envelopes for close to 6 years, and still not even half way through it.