Staples — Attraction in Ocala

This Staples location has been caught price gouging, by an extreme margin!

A 5-pack of Pilot G-2 gel pens is priced by this location at a whopping $9.99. While Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Uber Grocery charges roughly $6.49-$6.79 for them.

A 20-pack of the same Pilot G-2 gel pens is priced at $29.99 by the store, meanwhile Walmart is charging $18.26 for the same identical product! Staples is charging nearly 50% more for an everso basic item.

A simple 11 by 17 inch dry-erase white board costs $17.99 while Walmart charges $9.77 for the same item, of the same dimensions, just of their own brand.

Staples even charges more for a significantly smaller White board which has a calendar on it. $24.99! If we check Walmart's price for the same exact item, it's $5.77 for the 11 by 14 inch dry erase calendar board, with a marker included. Similarly with Good Earth, the same item is priced at about $8.48. Five Below even sells a larger version of this product for literally $3.25. If you don't believe me, you can simply research this for yourself.

As a warning to common sense consumers, do not shop at this Staples location....

Jennifer in the printing area waited on me to print 1 file 30 copies & a manager helped me print the other file 3 copies. I am so mad. She Kept waiting on 10 other people & left me begging for her to help me finish my 2 simple print jobs at the self copier that even she couldn’t get to work. There were like 15 steps and the bar code scanner wasn’t working very well. You have to download to your phone then wait for a bar code & print release code and it didn’t show which document was which and she kept leaving me. Then she took 5 more people in line and I insisted she finish helping me and she told me she doesn’t have to help with the self copiers. I said if you couldn’t figure it out & you work here how am I suppose to figure it out without completely helping me. I have my daughter’s birthday party today & I had to then wait for the manager to help me print the 2nd job which took him 2 minutes. Because of her stupidity of not helping the customer who got there 1st instead going back & helping 10 who came after me I lost 1 hour time I needed to go get the party arrangements made! The manager said he would...

I went to return a few items at Staples and there was a white lady behind me with only 2 small items to return. The “supervisor”, Nico (assuming he gave me the correct name; I was there on 6/24 around 4pm) just came and grabbed the scanner from the other employee and said, I’m going to process her return because she doesn’t have that many items. I understand that we had more items and I was more than ok with him processing her returns first. However, the way that this so called supervisor handled it was uncalled for and extremely disrespectful. I didn’t want to make a scene in front of the other customer but when I was done, I went to him and told him that his behavior was very poor and rude. He just walked away and said ok. He could not even apologize for his behavior because I don’t deserve it. If staples has a policy to disrespect black customers and prioritize white customers, make sure it is communicated properly so I can stay away. This #racist #whitepivilege behavior...