Officemax

Greeley has no business supply store that I would call truly «excellent.» You might have to go to Fort Collins or even Denver for true excellence, and of course you would undoubtedly incur high costs. Officemax is okay. I have to special order a few things, by mail. Officemax offers too few choices for some products — pencils, pens, pencil-​sharpeners, staples, paper, etc. But overall, it’s okay. I can nearly always get what I need, or a reasonable, if imperfect substitute.
My concern is with language. Okay, it’s a trivial thing for most people, I know. But my way of thinking is that Officemax employees should treat their customers as if their customers were respected business professionals. To that end, saying «Yupp!» in response to a question grates on my ears. Does the clerk resent my presence? Does she think I’ve hitched a horse up outside? Is she flirting, letting me know she’s a reg’lar gal with no silly pretensions? Or is she just poorly trained?
I’ll go to Office Depot next time, and conduct an experiment to see whether their clerks say «Yes, sir,» or the more cuddly «Yupp!»
And now I hear that Office Depot and Office Max are under one roof, as it were. So how does «choice» and «free market» and «monopoly» work into that? Well, I get my larger ink cartridges at Staples. I’ve gotten paper and small supplies at Office Depot. I will continue shopping at more than one company, and buying more than one brand of products. Because I believe in choice.
Months later: It looks like Office Max /​Office Depot is on the way to reducing of changing their inventory lines, which creates an unpleasant inconvenience for us. Right now we are in need of an office supply company with stable lines of products.