Tonernews.com, April 18, 2006. USA
Office-Supplies Politics
A GOOGLE SEARCH FOR “office supplies” produces more results than there are Americans: 378 million. The top listings are for mega-chains Staples , Office Depot and OfficeMax. Many of the rest are direct sellers whose infrastructure consists of little more than a dozen phones, a stack of business directories and a grease-board chronicling the salesperson-of-the-month competition.