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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Thank you. I appreciate that. One of the recurring themes that I tend to latch onto on this podcast and on the blog, sometimes more frequently on the podcast, I think, is the state of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>retail industry. And when I say that, I mean the physical stores, you know, the brick and mortar, you know, going to Staples, Office Max, you know, whatever your local office supply retailer is. And even, you know, the Walmarts and Targets and other, you know, general stores of the world. And I talk about how there's, you know, lack of innovation in those spaces. You know, what are some of the things that they do wrong? In my opinion, what are some of the things that could be done better? And I noticed I found an article on a stock analysis website. This was about a month ago I found this article. So my, and it was actually in the Inklink's post I do on Saturday. So some of you may have seen it. And I do apologize because this article is actually behind a, I guess it's behind a registration wall. I don't know if it's behind a paywall or not, but you don't have to go and register it just to read it. There's a, there's enough just on the front page of it just to kind of, in the snippet of it, to just kind of get the gist of it. But the title of the article is Staples talking about the company. This is coming, just remember, this is coming from a stock analyst type of perception. So the title is called Staples, doomed by Amazon or by young people. And I thought that was a pretty, they did a good job on the title because it drug me in. And let me read just a little bit of it and kind of give you an idea of where the author is coming on what's the challenges Staples has and, you know, what they're up against. So it says, a coworker, easily 20 years my junior, stopped by my desk the other day to borrow my stapler, which was sitting next to a tape dispenser amid piles of paper. And it occurred to me, the other desk in the office, all with young people sitting behind them, don't look like this.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Thank you. I appreciate that. One of the recurring themes that I tend to latch onto on this podcast and on the blog, sometimes more frequently on the podcast, I think, is the state of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>retail industry. And when I say that, I mean the physical stores, you know, the brick and mortar, you know, going to Staples, Office Max, you know, whatever your local office supply retailer is. And even, you know, the Walmarts and Targets and other, you know, general stores of the world. And I talk about how there's, you know, lack of innovation in those spaces. You know, what are some of the things that they do wrong? In my opinion, what are some of the things that could be done better? And I noticed I found an article on a stock analysis website. This was about a month ago I found this article. So my, and it was actually in the Inklink's post I do on Saturday. So some of you may have seen it. And I do apologize because this article is actually behind a, I guess it's behind a registration wall. I don't know if it's behind a paywall or not, but you don't have to go and register it just to read it. There's a, there's enough just on the front page of it just to kind of, in the snippet of it, to just kind of get the gist of it. But the title of the article is Staples talking about the company. This is coming, just remember, this is coming from a stock analyst type of perception. So the title is called Staples, doomed by Amazon or by young people. And I thought that was a pretty, they did a good job on the title because it drug me in. And let me read just a little bit of it and kind of give you an idea of where the author is coming on what's the challenges Staples has and, you know, what they're up against. So it says, a coworker, easily 20 years my junior, stopped by my desk the other day to borrow my stapler, which was sitting next to a tape dispenser amid piles of paper. And it occurred to me, the other desk in the office, all with young people sitting behind them, don't look like this.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' And he's just, you know, referring to himself. He's kind of the old school guy, but all the, you know, the young people don't have these kind of things handy like a stapler or like, you know, myself would. And he relates some of the pricing between Staples saying that the Uniball gel grip pins, they're $17.99 per dozen at Staples, but $13.99 on Amazon and even $10.99 on Newegg.com. So Staples has a severe pricing vulnerability, he says. What it offers is breadth of merchandise. If, say, you're the office manager and don't want to Google every item you're ordering in some 1,500 stores in the U.S. for convenience sake, for office managers. The changing nature of work suggests that demand for traditional office supplies may wane. The younger people I work with just don't buy paper tablets, copier paper, binder clips, yellow post-it notes, yellow highlighters, and all the other paper-related items that fill the aisles at Staples stores.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' And he's just, you know, referring to himself. He's kind of the old school guy, but all the, you know, the young people don't have these kind of things handy like a stapler or like, you know, myself would. And he relates some of the pricing between Staples saying that the Uniball gel grip pins, they're $17.99 per dozen at Staples, but $13.99 on Amazon and even $10.99 on Newegg.com. So Staples has a severe pricing vulnerability, he says. What it offers is breadth of merchandise. If, say, you're the office manager and don't want to Google every item you're ordering in some 1,500 stores in the U.S. for convenience sake, for office managers. The changing nature of work suggests that demand for traditional office supplies may wane. The younger people I work with just don't buy paper tablets, copier paper, binder clips, yellow post-it notes, yellow highlighters, and all the other paper-related items that fill the aisles at Staples stores.</div></td></tr>
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