Office Depot

This Office Depot store is conveniently located near the Peninsula Town Center. Store is always well stocked, bright and clean. A friendly staff is always available to assisted you. Check out lines are speedy quick and did I mention they have lots of interesting-things-you-don’t-need at the check out counter. Also they have sale baskets in the middle of the store on useless stuff you just don’t need. Now for my problem
Every 3 months or so I go to this store to purchase some HP printer cartridges. I usually get the combo back for the nice price of $ 67 with tax (normal price is about $ 64). Recently I went to go get the cartridges and the regular price before taxes is listed at $ 71.00.
Considering I rarely have any other need to shop at Office Depot, it is very likely I will be purchasing these cartridges directly from HP or Amazon where the price is cheaper. Or Walmart.
I gotta take care of me.

The absolute worst…
I got what I needed but it way too damn long to get it. In line for 15 minutes before I get helped. I am finally standing at the counter. Another five minutes. Once I’m finally getting things going I notice a lady waiting who appears to be really impatient. I thought she was going to blow up at someone. She ended up walking out with nothing in hand.
The lady that helped me was very nice but just very slow. Her co-​worker, a young lady who appeared to be under the age of 25, just took her jolly ol’ time with everyone. It would take her a while to greet people and she worked as if no one was under any sort of time constraint. In my opinion, the wrong person to have when it comes to customer service.
Bad, bad, bad.

I just waited 15 minutes to have a document laminated. The store just opened and no one was ahead of me in line. Asked the associate for help and she said she would «be right with me». She kept messing around with a copy machine, knowing all I needed was a single document. We all have bad days, but wow. Simple task made complicated.
Here is what’s worse: The store manager was 5 feet away stocking the shelves with scotch tape. If the store manager doesn’t know how to push two buttons on the lamination machine I have no hope for this society, let alone Office Depot.