Officeworks - Where's the Works?
Officeworks uses the slogan "the works" in its logo. Where's the works? There's no works. It doesn't works.
Yesterday afternoon, I visited the Carlton store for colour inkjet overhead transparencies. There was not a single packet available.
A few months back, Officeworks in Carlton ran out of A4 Manilla Folders. This is, of course, utterly ridiculous!
Firstly, point of sale systems, even for small retailers, include fully integrated accounting and inventory management. There's nothing new about this.
Such a system records a sale, and automatically notifies the company buyer when a stock item falls below the minimum allowed amount.
There is absolutely no valid reason why a large office stationer such as Officeworks should run out of stock items. The problem does not appear to be limited to the Carlton store. A manager at another branch told me that her store also had no colour OHTs. She believes this has been the case for a number of months.
What BS! There are a number of overhead transparency brands available in Australia: Australian Inkjet Film, Nobo, 3M, Epson, HP, Apollo, Dataline, Celcast and more.
For Officeworks not to have any is pathetic. What are these goons up to?
I invite Officeworks to take the advantage of the right of reply, but any excuse would be feeble.
Note: Officeworks have steadily been replacing some papers with their own brand. I don't know where they source their gloss inkjet paper, but I learnt the hard way to avoid the Officeworks brand. It's junk. I chose to give it a go on a small print job of 40 report covers some time back. The prints had to be suspended from a 'washing line' for two days to dry properly - something that would never happen with the TDK or Kodak brands.
Yesterday afternoon, I visited the Carlton store for colour inkjet overhead transparencies. There was not a single packet available.
A few months back, Officeworks in Carlton ran out of A4 Manilla Folders. This is, of course, utterly ridiculous!
Firstly, point of sale systems, even for small retailers, include fully integrated accounting and inventory management. There's nothing new about this.
Such a system records a sale, and automatically notifies the company buyer when a stock item falls below the minimum allowed amount.
There is absolutely no valid reason why a large office stationer such as Officeworks should run out of stock items. The problem does not appear to be limited to the Carlton store. A manager at another branch told me that her store also had no colour OHTs. She believes this has been the case for a number of months.
What BS! There are a number of overhead transparency brands available in Australia: Australian Inkjet Film, Nobo, 3M, Epson, HP, Apollo, Dataline, Celcast and more.
For Officeworks not to have any is pathetic. What are these goons up to?
I invite Officeworks to take the advantage of the right of reply, but any excuse would be feeble.
Note: Officeworks have steadily been replacing some papers with their own brand. I don't know where they source their gloss inkjet paper, but I learnt the hard way to avoid the Officeworks brand. It's junk. I chose to give it a go on a small print job of 40 report covers some time back. The prints had to be suspended from a 'washing line' for two days to dry properly - something that would never happen with the TDK or Kodak brands.
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