Armstrong tools at staples? !?

[KinzeMech]

While doing a little bit of planning for my next tool purchase, I googled an armstrong number, and got a hit at STAPLES. Just thought that was odd. I did a search at staples for "armstrong" and came up with 2 pages of items (none of them the one I was looking for.

I don't really have a point. I was just scratching my head at the oddity of it all.

http://www.staples.com/armstrong/directory_armstrong

 

[Fordman7795]

Marketplace sellers not staples

 

[Davefr]

While doing a little bit of planning for my next tool purchase, I googled an armstrong number, and got a hit at STAPLES. Just thought that was odd. I did a search at staples for "armstrong" and came up with 2 pages of items (none of them the one I was looking for.

I don't really have a point. I was just scratching my head at the oddity of it all.

http://www.staples.com/armstrong/directory_armstrong

...and Klein, Fluke, Ingersol Rand, Wiha, Wilton, Jet, Sioux, Stanley, etc, etc

Also Snap On!!

http://www.staples.com/snap+on/directory_snap+on

 

[KinzeMech]

Marketplace sellers not staples

Well, that explains it at least.

Sears has been doing that kind of thing for a long time, but at least they have a tab you can click to narrow the selection down to sears only. It's kind of annoying when they do that, if I wanted to buy from the internet in general, that's where I'd be looking in the first place.

 

[firebox40dash5]

Oh good. ANOTHER wannabe Amazon. Just what the internet needed.

 

[cburnscrx]

Well, that explains it at least.

Sears has been doing that kind of thing for a long time, but at least they have a tab you can click to narrow the selection down to sears only. It's kind of annoying when they do that, if I wanted to buy from the internet in general, that's where I'd be looking in the first place.

Staples is going to try to be Amazon and use the brick & mortar stores less and less.

 

[tshetter]

Some companies only allow purchases to specific stores/retailers. Ie, some places will ONLY purchase through Grainger unless there are extenuating circumstances and then it is a pain in the *** to get a PO approved and submitted.

And some places have very low limits on the corporate cards that are provided to management. One place I worked the three managers had cards linked to the same account with a monthly limit of $750 across all of the cards. Thats basically nothing.

The Ol' Lady works at a place where Staples and Sam's Club are the only places you can purchase from without corporate approval which takes 3-5 days to get approval.

These retailers know this and therefore are trying to expand their inventory to cater to everything any business could possibly ever need.

 

[finn]

I can see why a corporation would do this.

Makes auditing and probably billing easier w/ less chance of internal fraud.

Inside embezzlement often entails payments to ficticous businesses. Makes it harder if the approved vender list is more tightly controlled

 

[Strouty]

Sears does the same thing. Staples has been doing this for a long time, they do not have competitive pricing and you can't use any staples coupons or promos on the purchases. It may be a way to make money off Government entities.

 

[turdferguson13]

I hate that marketplace seller ****.

 

[cheechi]

I think staples also does net90 if your company is big enough. That's a big reason is why so many businesses will set up pcards to buy from them.