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This corner of the city used to be bustling. On one corner was a legendary local office supply company called Silver’s. The other corner saw a series of merchants offering their wares. The businesses attracted people and people were attracted to the businesses and the area flourished. Then one day Silver’s sold out to the big box retailer Office Depot and they shuttered the wicked cool Silver’s store because it did not fit their cookie cutter store format. Another creative and stimulating enterprise sacrificed at the alter of logistical efficiency. Silver’s closing left a hole in the area and eliminated a reason for people to visit and, in time, the other businesses faded away, too.
It is not Office Depot’s fault. Like all businesses, big box retailers are fulfilling their nature and their nature is to dominate their market at the lowest cost possible. As consumers we reward this behavior by filling our carts in giddy excitement over our savings, never giving thought to what we have lost. You see, we may have found low prices but we achieved them at a high cost. Opportunity for new entrepreneurs is reduced as the big boxes consume all markets in their path. They deliver these prices in a bland experience of big selections with painfully little difference. It is all the same stuff, offered in the same presentation with clerks wearing the same golf shirts. Only the little logos on their shirts tell you whether you are in a Best Buy, Target or Wal- Mart.
The football field superstore does not support a community and foot traffic the way our old world of store front, mom and pop, retail districts once did. They add to the isolation and stifle the creative spark of hanging a shingle and opening a business. While the Internet offers small businesses a path to compete with the giants, an online community is not the same as a real world community. Technology and economics are leading us down a path where we are becoming more connected with more people and isolating us all at the same time. I am not sure I like it.
Former Zodys Department Store that closed in 1980's and subdivided. This site was taken over by Albertsons and operated under the name of Grocery Warehouse and later Max Foods. Albertsons had originally operated a store in this same shopping center until it moved next door into the Zodys building. The former Albertsons is now a Office Depot. In 1999, Albertsons took over Lucky Supermarkets, which had a store across the street. The Lucky became an Albertsons and operated until November 21,2007. These photos were taken on November 14,2007 at around 6 am, about two hours prior to the grand opening of the new store. One of xx photos of this center.
Former Zodys Department Store that closed in 1980's and subdivided. This site was taken over by Albertsons and operated under the name of Grocery Warehouse and later Max Foods. Albertsons had originally operated a store in this same shopping center until it moved next door into the Zodys building. The former Albertsons is now a Office Depot. In 1999, Albertsons took over Lucky Supermarkets, which had a store across the street. The Lucky became an Albertsons and operated until November 21,2007. These photos were taken on November 14,2007 at around 6 am, about two hours prior to the grand opening of the new store. One of xx photos of this center.
Former Zodys Department Store that closed in 1980's and subdivided. This site was taken over by Albertsons and operated under the name of Grocery Warehouse and later Max Foods. Albertsons had originally operated a store in this same shopping center until it moved next door into the Zodys building. The former Albertsons is now a Office Depot. In 1999, Albertsons took over Lucky Supermarkets, which had a store across the street. The Lucky became an Albertsons and operated until November 21,2007. These photos were taken on November 14,2007 at around 6 am, about two hours prior to the grand opening of the new store. One of xx photos of this center.
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I think this is the first time I've been in a place and deliberately gotten a shot of aisle 12! The aisle numbers here start at the front left and go around the building in a clockwise direction.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
This may be the only vantage point I haven't yet posted a photo from of the Poplar Ave. Office Depot furniture department. And it actually looks like someone could spread out their stuff on one of those desks, and get some real work done!
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
This was one of my very few overview shots from the back looking up toward the front - heck it's the only one from near this vantage point. So I'm posting it, blurry or not!
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
I prefer to post photos from a particular place in a somewhat random order (as opposed to a formal "stour"), but this was one of the first I came across when reviewing these, which just happens to start at the beginning of the store, more or less. Sorry about the blurriness also, as it was somewhat darker in here than in most more modern retail places.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
In addition to the locked bins up front (for more expensive stock) seen in the previous photo, these panels with various signage along the left side wall swing outward, cleverly hiding stock underneath them as well.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
Office furniture occupies a decent-sized portion of the back part of the store. Not too bad a selection, considering how small the store is overall.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
This store is the only store that remains from this plaza's days as the Kingsport Mall.
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Most places have these where one can see into them, looking much like cages in a dog kennel! I guess these covers on the front make for a less cluttered look up by the check lanes.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
Looks like we have printers here to fit everyone's style and budget. Something tells me though that the much larger Canon in the right of the photo costs quite a bit more that the $49.99 model on the left :P
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
Here's another of the clever endcaps seen back on the early February 2020 visit. Pretty sure we're looking toward the right side wall again, only this time in the back part of the store.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
Just another view outside at the Poplar Ave. Office Depot in east Memphis. Just one look across the street confirms that most the entire length of Poplar Ave. would make a very good study in all things retail!
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
Switching to the other side of the store now, here's a view once again looking up toward the front. I didn't spend as much time on the non-tech side of the place as I did in 2016, and very little time up near the front. Meh, nothing much has changed since then anyway :P
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
While this photo from my February 2020 Poplar Ave. Office Depot lacks the road sign (as opposed to this view), it also lacks something else - clarity :P
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
WEEK 48 – Statesboro Office DepotMax, Set II
In this pic we’re glancing from the (covered, former) display cases at the (erstwhile) customer service counter up towards the store’s checkouts, above which the front wall thanks customers for shopping and also alerts them that they are invited to shop online. And as I noted in our first upload from this week (on Tuesday), despite the fact that this store’s exterior signage was changed over to Office Depot, both of those instances on the wall here still remain unchanged from their original OfficeMax nomenclature.
This is particularly egregious, so to speak, where the “officemax.com” reference is concerned, since, oh, officemax.com doesn’t actually exist anymore. Indeed, even though they may only have received zero or minimal updates otherwise, it seems that most, if not all, OfficeMax stores chainwide at least received some method of redirecting shoppers to the new joint webpage at officedepot.com, in lieu of the now-defunct officemax.com. There are several examples of this that I’ve seen in practice, ranging in ease of application.
Perhaps the simplest is just the hanging banner that can be cleverly placed so as to block the outdated reference on the wall. You can check that one out here. We also saw it in Jonesboro (even though that particular OfficeMax didn’t have a .com reference on the wall to begin with).
The next step up is a permanent red sticker to be applied directly over the officemax.com reference, burying it away for good behind the new officedepot.com URL. This seems like it’s also a common method of updating the website; you can see one example of it in action here.
And finally, in searching out image links to use in fleshing out this description, I came across perhaps the most intense example of all. Ironically, I don’t actually see a URL at this particular location, but the store in question nonetheless applied new co-branded “Office Depot OfficeMax” stickers literally almost *everywhere* the OfficeMax name could be seen. Multiple areas along the front end? Check (that’s just one example in the linked photo there). Even on the décor signs themselves, replacing red circles that used to read only “OfficeMax” with new red rectangles that include both brands’ names? Check (see the center and right-hand sides of that pic, paying attention to the black-and-gray striped backgrounds)!
And do you know what’s craziest about this whole situation? Despite all the (varying levels of) effort placed into updating those linked stores’ interiors to reflect the new website URL and/or overall merger, not a single one of them has changed their signage on the outside of the building. That’s right – they’re all still OfficeMaxes! And they still went to that degree of effort to update their signage on the inside. Compare that to this store in Statesboro, which actually did rebrand itself, officially, on the exterior, to Office Depot – but not a lick of further effort was put into the interior, not even a measly little sticker or hanging banner to hide away the defunct officemax.com URL, for crying out loud!!
It’s a baffling situation, to say the least, and I know I’m using some strong language here, but that’s only to try and (hopefully) convey the bizarreness effectively enough for you guys. In truth… I absolutely *love* crazy stuff like this!! One of my favorite things in this hobby is to come across things that don’t match up and subsequently get to share and discuss it with all of y’all. I hope you find this as fun as I do.
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I thought this aisle made for a rather nice presentation, complete with the color-coded circular signs. Might seem like it's a little closed-in due to those shelves dang near on the floor, but it didn't feel that way in person.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
I don't remember the furniture department starting this close to the front of the store, truth be told. Perhaps the chairs in the foreground were just some sort of promotional display. And cool that much (if not all) of that leftmost tri-sided sign is devoted to the checkout lanes!
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
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Pretty decent overview here, going all the way back to aisle 12 on the store's right side, with a nice selection of office furniture in the back as well. And yep, I did get another aisle 12-specific shot to post in the future (which, if I do say so myself, will be better than the 2016 version :P). And naturally, I got a closeup of that "Dog Depot" end cap (seen to the right of the aisle 12 sign) also!
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
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Time for a few more pics from the Poplar Ave. Office Depot, as seen in early February 2020. Ironically, the rubber bands aren't OfficeMax or Office Depot-branded. Sadly, the semi-iconic Office Depot rubber band ball is listed as being no longer available for purchase.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
The age old knock on NASCAR is that it is "not a sport" as all they do is go left in circles. Bristol Motor Speedway exemplifies why it is truly a sport. Imagine driving around your neighborhood caul-de-sac 500 times. Then add 42 of your neighbors. Then add 33 degrees of banking (represented above). Then accelerate to 140 miles per hour which adds 3G's of force on the driver. I think it takes an athlete to accomplish that task.
Ha, knew I had an aisle 12 photo somewhere in this set! The aisle itself is quite on the short side though, with part of the furniture department out in front of it.
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
Looks like this is a view across the center actionway over to the right side of the store. That black and blue keyboard over on that endcap poster is pretty sweet-looking!
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis
Off to the side of the restrooms in the Poplar Ave. Office Depot is this wide open for all to view, cluttered stockroom. The power panel in back looks rather new, and expensive to boot!
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Office Depot, 1969-built (as World Bazaar), Poplar Ave. near S. Yates Rd., Memphis