Since a few months the big office supply stores are closing one by one. The Staples on Van Ness, now the Office Max on Harrison.
Must be a direct consequence of the downtown offices still being empty.
Or maybe the Michael Scott Paper Company is undercutting their prices to capture market share? Then once the big box paper retail stores close MSPC will increase their prices.
Is anyone surprised? I can't remember the last time I was in one of those stores even before the pandemic, and I'm pretty sure most corporate accounts do direct orders rather than send people on supply runs anyway.
In some sense I'd have almost expected those kinds of stores to do better with WFH, as people would be buying their own stuff instead of raiding the office supply cabinets.