Concept in Definition ABC

Is named Stationery to the commercial establishment in which objects and supplies for offices are sold, for students, among other interested parties.

Commercial business in which supplies and elements for offices and students are sold

That is, the stationery offers us, sells us, all those products and elements that in the office, in the school and even at home they will allow us to write documents, modify them, transcribe them, highlight those fundamental issues, print them, among other issues.

There are two types of stationery, distributors, which are those that supply other stationers but smaller, for example, those smaller that are established in remote or small neighborhoods. And then we can meet the other guy, which is the stationeries for the general public, which will offer the services and supplies that any student of any level, housewife or office worker may demand.

Generally, the services that a stationery store offers to its customers are multiple and the most varied, as well as the supplies it sells.

Services you offer and products you sell

Among the most common services are: black and white photocopies, duplications, laser drops on CDs, binding, printing and ringing of monographs.
Meanwhile, among the supplies, as we mentioned, there are many and the most varied too: pens, markers, Highlighters, sheets, notebooks, folders, pencil cases, envelopes, erasers, labels, folders, scissors, cardboard, games from geometry, rulers, compasses, maps, diagrams, decals and typical office and desk accessories, but also are often used both at school and at home, such as: stapler, staples, paper clips, hole punch, calculator and agendas.

On the other hand, stationery stores are the providers par excellence of didactic, useful and study materials for students of schools or of universities, and by case is that near the academic institutions mentioned there will always be a stationery ready to sell them the necessary products to study.

We must emphasize that in countries like Argentina these commercial establishments are called bookstores.

The diversification of the business brought by new technologies and the entry of other actors into the business

Currently, as a consequence of the new competence especially exercised by supermarkets that also offer typical stationery items, is that the business has diversified and has also added new services and variants, including: fax service, gift wrapping, plotter, sale of gifts (stuffed animals, toys and cosmetics), among others.

Nor can we ignore in this sense that the presence of the computing In everyday life, something that did not happen a couple of decades ago, has also caused this business to add articles related to this sector to win customers and of course sales.

In other words, if we look at a stationery from a few years ago we will surely find only school supplies and basic office, while today the universe of proposals has expanded incredibly to those already mentioned, and we also add as We said, computer equipment that today is highly demanded by the public, for example, cartridges for printers, devices to use on the computer such as Pen Drives, headphones, to name some of the most common.

On the other hand, books have become an increasingly strong presence in stationery stores, as well as gifts and cards, although, we must say that in the case of gifts usually vary in presence depending on the time of year or special dates such as mother's day, father's day, children's day, Christmas, friend's day, among other

Although it is a business that can function without problems, therefore, those who want to start it do not need big investments nor specific knowledge, it is a reality that today, as a consequence of the tremendous advance of new technologies, has generated that, for example, some basic supplies that this business sold, such is the case of paper, today, it is not in large volumes as in the past, because of course, computer screens have largely taken away that prominence and not to mention having reduced its need.

Today if you want to send a document to someone you do it by email, for social network, being less the use of paper.

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