“Apple products will soon be showing up at Staples stores, according to tweets from employees at the office supply store chain,” Steven Musil reports for CNET.
“Regis Mulot, the vice president of international human resources at Staples, made the announcement [yesterday via Twitter],” Musil reports. “In addition to Mulot’s tweet, Erin LaFlamme, a Strategic Accounts coordinator at Staples, tweeted her joy at the deal… [and] Mike Goggin, a field services manager at Staples, tweeted that it was a done deal: ‘Staples just finalized a deal to begin selling Apple products.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Finally!
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Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider, “Update: Mulot has deleted the original tweet regarding Apple product sales, but other Staples executives’ posts remain on the microblogging site.”
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“Staples already sells Apple products internationally but had been unsuccessful in completing a deal with Apple for the U.S. market… While there’s no mention of what Apple products Staples would carry, MacRumors previously heard in mid-January that Staples would carry Apple’s full lineup of Macs, iPads as well as the iPhone 5 in their stores,” Husain Sumra reports for MacRumors.
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MacDailyNews Take: Better late than never.
To date, Staples has been this weird backwater of antiquated tech, with crappy Windows PCs, some pretend iPhones and assorted iPad roadkill crammed in a section alongside office furniture, chair mats, and manilla folders. In Staples, outside of a a smattering of Apple-related accessories, there was precious little mention of Apple (unless it was something derogatory said by Staples employees after you asked, “Hey. where are the iPhones and iPads?” because, the fact was, they knew they worked in a tech wasteland devoid of the products people really wanted from the #1 tech company in the world).
Sometimes, for fun, we’d go in there when we needed a binder or something and, blinking wide-eyed, ask one of the red shirts to see a MacBook Air or an iPad with Retina display. They’d then try to sell us on a 1-foot think plastic HP laptop featuring Windows Vista or dazzle us with some Chinese no-name plastic tablet running Fragmandroid Ding Dong. Needless to say, we were what they call “tough customers.”
Anyway, good luck, Staples! Hopefully, your employees will now have only good things to say about Apple products.