Office Depot

Praiseworthy: clean store, friendly cashier, organized merchandise, reasonable prices, can potentially find good sale items, they carry office products like coffee machines and disposable cups, etc., they offer other in-​store services.
Gripe-​worthy: not a lot of variety… be prepared to not find exactly what you’re looking for (e.g. they only sell 3 different types of lanyards and ²⁄₃ are cheap and broke on me), friendliness of cashiers can be hit or miss, can’t usually find anyone on the floor when I need help, you can probably find better pricing elsewhere on a lot of items.

This is my Office Depot of choice. I generally go here or to the one in Plano. This location seems to always have the things I need, and the sales people don’t bug you while you’re shopping. They’re great about helping you when you DO need it though! They often have great sales on paper and computer chairs. The only con for me here is the DISGUSTING bathroom. Ew. Avoid that, and you’re golden!

Something about this Office Depot kind of bugs me-​maybe it was because I went in twice around 7 pm… maybe that’s a weird time for the staff? It seemed like it was weird for my friend and I to be there, but hey, when organizing your apartment after a full day of work, when else am I supposed to go in? Aside from that, they have a pretty good selection; the store itself just looked kind of blah and a little shabby. A plus was that the cashier gave us coupons to use instead of leaving us high and dry since we forgot to bring ours along.

This review is for their printing center. I would not consider their printing service «professional» as the staff there definitely didn’t know any more «printing-​stuff» than I did. It’s definitely cheap but if you need something to be done professionally and correctly, spend the extra money and go to Kinko’s.
We were making some of our wedding stationary ourselves and we came to print our wedding programs and a big 3’x2’ seating chart. Sounds simple enough right? Wrong!
Programs: Apparently their super fancy $ 4000 dollar laser printers have different color calibration than most printers. I’m not a professional photographer but I do have my monitors calibrated correctly to see things in their true color. The point is that what we saw on our computer and test prints looked nothing like what their printer printed. It looked like they’re missing a lot of blue. Either way, the staff knew nothing about color calibration and we ended up just printing the programs ourselves on our own laser printer. It took more work but at least the colors were right.
Seating Chart: The printing was ok but the lamination machine broke for some reason and no one could fix it. We waited another day and still no one could fix it until the evening shift. And then for some reason they mounted it on a tri-​fold, so they had to redo the whole thing –_​– In the end, the mounting wasn’t even done properly and the laminated paper was pilling off from all sides. We essentially had to redo the mounting ourselves using double sided tapes.