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, at school and even at home 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 downloads 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, rubber bands, labels, folders, scissors, cardboard, geometry games, rulers , compas, maps, diagrams, decals and accessories typical of office and desk use, although they are also often used both at school and at home, such as: stapler, staples, paper clips, hole punch, calculator and diaries.
On the other hand, stationery stores are the providers par excellence of educational, useful and study materials for students in schools or universities, and for example, near the aforementioned academic institutions there will always be a stationery ready to sell them the necessary products. for 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
At present, as a consequence of the new competition exerted especially by supermarkets that also offer typical stationery items, the business has diversified and has also added new services and variants, among them: 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 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 basic school and office supplies, while today the universe of proposals has been incredibly expanded 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 for use in 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, they tend to vary in presence depending on the time of year or dates. specials such as mother's day, father's day, children's day, Christmas, friend's day, among others.
Although it is a business that can function without problems, therefore, those who want to start it do not need large investments or 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 traded, such is the case of paper, today, it is not in large volumes as in the past, because of course, computer screens have greatly removed that prominence and not to mention having reduced your need.
Today, if you want to send a document to someone, you do it by email, by social network, with less use of paper.
