Patrick & Company

So sad that this place will close. It’s like your neighborhood go to place and the staff is always helpful like your neighbor. Their rent will triple as it goes with every small business in SF. Instead of moving into a closet, the owner opt to close. Sorry to see you go. Go now for 30% off of everything.

A great little stationary store located on Market Street in the Fox Plaza.
I was on the hunt for a simple plastic card holder to carry my clipper card, my badge and some extra cash. And hello, hello! Patrick & Company! It is also extremely convenient because it is only located a couple blocks from my work place.
For 75 cents, I was definitely happy with my plastic card holder. It has a small zipper to keep my clipper card and badge secure. And to me, it looks and feels durable. Let’s see how long it will last!
The customer service at Patrick & Company was excellent. I walked in knowing what I wanted and was immediately given directions where to go by the woman working at the register. Just a suggestion, there should be more variety in their supplies. However, it is also understandable that they only carry a certain amount of supplies because it is a small store.
But this is a quick fix of where you can get office supplies if you are in this area!

The customer service here is terrible. I seriously wish I could give it 0 stars. It’s painfully expensive for very cheap products. I’m a college student in the area and I went there with my friends to get a retractable lanyard. My friend got a caribener And the gentleman was so unnecessarily rude to her. My retractable lanyard broke and I brought it to them and was told I was lying about it breaking. Never go back.

Somewhat comprehensive selection of items. I am disappointed they that don’t carry Waterman ink cartridges, however. Somewhat overpriced but I understand they are trying to be competitive now that Staples has closed at least one of its San Francisco stores.
Readers: THE WORD IS SPELLED «STATIONERY.» If you are literate enough to want to write on paper, please learn how to spell what you would like to write on.

a plethora of options, the man with white hair that works the cash register is extremely
nice

Very friendly and attentive service. I was looking for a small item that cost between $ 1 and $ 3, yet the staff gave me their undivided attention, over the telephone, as if I were spending a bundle. I did not feel rushed at all. I would gladly refer this store to my friends and colleagues.

This is a really nice store to visit for office supplies. One of the common office supply items they have include regular and expanding file folders. Badge & ID Card holders are also available which is a plus. These holders are definitely a great way to protect your badge/​ID card.
Store layout is indeed very neat, inventory items are also organized. Customers can easily find and purchase the right items they are looking for.
They are conveniently located at Archstone Fox Plaza with USPS, Starbucks Coffee, Redwood Credit Union and Andersen Bread. Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, Asian Art Museum, City Hall and Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall are also nearby.
I’ll be back when I need pencils, erasers, folders or greeting cards. Art supplies are available in addition to office supplies. I also liked the types of greeting cards they have available. Prices of items seems kind of pricey compared to Office Depot, Office Max or Staples.
Patrick and Company is now on my list of go to stores for office supplies. If you do need to stock up on office supplies, this is the store to turn to.
Staff: ⁵⁄₅
Friendliness: ⁵⁄₅
Neatness: ⁵⁄₅
Price Range: $ — $$
Overall, positive first time experience and convenient location.
Brief Update for 3÷5÷2014:
Some of the common office supply items they have in the inventory include:
— notebooks
— notepads
— binders
— folders
— dividers
— sheet protectors
— envelopes
Greeting cards for special occasions such as birthdays are also available. Indeed this is one neat store to visit. They carry some of the most common supplies we’d find at Office Depot, Office Max, Staples or Walgreens.
Layout: ⁵⁄₅
Neatness: ⁵⁄₅
Friendliness: ⁵⁄₅
Location: ⁵⁄₅
Pricing: $ — $$
Some of the items here are leaning toward the pricey side as compared to their competitors.

In a word: terrible.
I needed a few, fairly basic items: a steel ruler, some 110 lb. cardstock, a particular mechanical pencil, and some glue appropriate for paper crafts (i.e. a low-​moisture glue, not Elmer’s). I check on their website and found that they had the vast majority of what I needed and an excellent price on the cardstock in particular. When I went into the store, however, it was the total opposite.
Apparently they once had three floors here and it shows. Everything feels run-​down and thrown together like a store that’s circling the drain. I couldn’t find the pencil I wanted and chalked it up to being interested in one specific model, maybe they had it at their other stores, but not here or were sold out. I couldn’t find glue, but again, that’s more of a crafting item so I let it slide. I couldn’t find the paper I was looking for either and began to wonder if they actually carried anything that they listed on their site, but the final straw was when I couldn’t even find a ruler. From what I could tell they only had one type of ruler in the entire store and a cheap plastic one at that.
The price on the paper was good enough though that I asked at the desk and, when it couldn’t be found, the clerk offered to check the other store in the Financial District and when they were out order it for me. That is, after I had to go to the website to even find the paper I was after since it couldn’t be found in the system or in the catalog. I was told I’d be getting it on Monday after showing up on a Thursday. Not terrible, but it would certainly put a crimp in my weekend plans for it. One of the main reasons I wasn’t just buying online.
Over the weekend I find everything else I want at Office Depot for less than their website lists, but I’m still waiting on that paper and since it’s half off list price it’s worth the savings to wait.
When Monday rolls around I call and they have my paper. After rushing over I’m told that they will not honor the price on their website and want to charge me full price. There’s no listing on the website that the prices only apply there (I checked, not even under FAQs or any other fine print section) or that I should expect to pay more in the store. I end up buying it because I’ve already made the trip across town, twice, to get it, but I’ll never, ever go back.
It’s one thing to have a bad experience at a store with lousy stock and high prices. It’s quite another to feel actively cheated by deceptive practices. Not only will I never shop there again, but I actively hope they go out of business.

I went in for a pink Moleskine planner for 2013, and found the exact one I was looking for right away! A bit more pricey than online and other stores, but totally worth it! The store was clean, staff was kind, and I was in and out in less than 60 seconds… literally!

Outstanding, Friendly customer service! Bit high on some prices, but worth it. In Fox Plaza, very conveniently located next to Post Office. Grab a quick card and/​or packaging and mail it off in no time. Great place to find a gift. Generally not too busy, personalized service.

Go to the other locations if you want to support the old school, like I did at first. Everything is extremely overpriced, and the service has just gone to hell. The guy in front of me ran out screaming expletives he was so frustrated with the person at the counter denying his coupon, which I saw was valid.
First she sold a daily planner to me, that I didn’t realize was for only half a year until I opened it. When I came back in she had me trade it for a worse one, then pay the difference, which was more. …stuff I could get at Safeway for $ 4.99 for $ 18.00, and I am still very unhappy with my purchase. The one on Market Street is better. Through the doors of this one I will never enter again.

Wonderful memories of shopping here with my dad when I was wee. He loves office supplies and so do I. I love supporting independent stores and hope that others in SF and other ares that have a Patrick go there for their office jones.
Their selection is great and their prices are reasonable. Long live Patrick and Company!

Wow! Just got home after this retarded company got me going…
Someone needs to explain seller etiquette to these people…
1) First off, you don’t follow the customer around w/​o saying anything as if I’m going to steal an over-​priced box of envelopes… Ugh…
2) Second, you never ask a customer if they realized how expensive that clipboard is and wonder aloud if I can afford it… IT’S A GD CLIPBOARD!!! OF COURSE I CAN AFFORD IT!!!
3) Finally, I’m very disappointed b/​c I wanted very much for this place to be good considering its close to my house and easy to get to… Unfortunately, no this place sucks and your better off going to OfficeMax or any other office supply store than this one. YO***

This place is great! I rushed here to get a report cover for an admissions essay I’m turning in today during my interview. They had exactly what I needed plus more! Even though I only had my credit card on me, the person who helped me let me slide this one time. He was an absolute life saver! I’m definitely come back here whenever I need anything office or stationary related.
Thanks Patrick & Company!

This place is right across the street from my office, and I love it. See, I take my office supplies WAY too seriously. How much so? Let’s see…
I don’t use the cheap-​ass pens my firm buys. They suck, and I don’t hate myself, so I buy my own. $ 4 each for disposable pens seems like a lot, until you actually use the pens I buy. Then it seems totally reasonable.
My crappy handwriting notwithstanding, my job requires taking a lot of notes. Usually in meetings. So, I carry a pad and pen with me, pretty much everywhere. And, because carrying a pad and pen would be déclassé otherwise, I have full-​grain leather wraps for them. Looks better, plus the thick backing means I can take notes with the pad in my lap without hassle. Bonus crazy points: I have two wraps, one for taking out of the office with me and one for carting to meetings in my office. They’re different colors (one black, one blue) so I can tell them apart. And not accidentally take the wrong one. Both purchased here.
I only wish Patrick & Co. carried the highlighters I like. Which are made in Germany. And awesome.

I am glad Staples went out of business. And if I’m only imagining it did, then it needs to. I feel so dirty and lonely in those stores, and frankly, I feel like that enough on my own without a store imposing that upon me!
Patrick’s is my go-​to spot for all kinds of pens and junk like that. I think I’ve been here three times now, and each time I’ve gone the workers are unusually brusque and practically accusatory when I purchase items there. First they snatch the pens out of my hand, then they look at me suspiciously, and finally they bark out the price while giving me the shifty eyes. I kind of like that they treat me that way. I almost feel like a rebel, and that yes, they SHOULD be wary of me!
One time I went here to buy a metallic pen (which they of course had, in many variations). I thought I was being really clever because I was attending a Bat For Lashes concert, and her album’s title is Fur and Gold. Get it? Gold and a metallic pen to sign my copy of the album? I was clearly being conceptual and deep about it.
Anyway, Patrick’s has lots of fun pens, and that’s the moral of this review. Or is it a parable?

Office Depot is not my idea of a great office supply store. A really great office supply has unexpected shapes of paper clips, and brands of pencils I’ve never seen before. There are pads of forms the use of which I cannot imagine, and there are small notebooks that intrigue.
The staff at such a place should be of indeterminate age, and reasonably helpful, but not puppy-​dog friendly. They should understand that for some of us, office supplies are not merely… supplies.
Patrick & Company is such a store. There’s a big one, in the financial district (that’s the one with the 3 floors.) The one at 1390 Market is more modest, but there are plenty of oddball items for the office supply connoisseur or (dare I say it?) fetishist.
Enjoy.

They have WAY more office stuff than all the other P&C’s.
Three floors of paper and office supply goodies. I wanted to buy a stamp that had DENIED on it. I want to use to stamp on the foreheads of men who are sleazy and cheesy and who hit on me.
«Hey baby, damn you fine. Can I hollah atcha?»
«No…DENIED!!!»
“Hey so uh… where do you live? My place is nearby”
«I don’t know you… DENIED!!!»
«I can rock your world, baby! Heh.heh.»
«Rock this… DENIED!!!»
«Hi, how are you tonight? I’m Mike.»
DENI…oh wait… you’re nice. Okay… I’m doing well… I’m jay.

My brother in kindergarten had the brilliant idea to collect erasers, accumulating a whopping total of 2000 rubber gems. Not so weird, except these were also all the same erasers: those lame but useful pencil erasers that you could always buy at the school store. Milk money, arcade money, and haircut money were excitedly put into a piggy bank… for… more pencil erasers each week. Strangely enough, my parents happily entertained this pastime.
Each night after a new purchase of erasers, he’d empty out buckets of the things and count them happily, sighing at his unique treasures.
«Jess, guess how many I have?» «No, guess again.» «Come on, just guess… JESS — GUESS!»
Needless to say, Airport customs were always a little skeptical when we had to bring the beloved eraser collection back to England to show extended family:
” Uh… so why do we have so many erasers here? I don’t get it… do you use them? Please move over here, away from the X ray machine… .John…can you look through these erasers… very weird… what? The kid has a toothpaste collection too! «
Yup — my brother was a dental connoisseur in his kindergarten years too: …Crest…Colgate…Arm and Hammer… but hey a passion is a passion…
Anyways the point is: that for any age, or any pen/​eraser collection that one might have, Patrick & Co. can feed that stationary fix.
Not only do they have everything, but Patrick & Co’ s layout is organized and easy to navigate. The friendliness of the staff, just further encourages my disposition to try all the latest office gadgets and makes me wish I was just that much more organized so I could make use of their folders and binders.
I’m particularly fond of the lovely older lady at the front. She always compliments my perfume or clothes and likes to give me little tips:
«Oooo nice shirt. I like those low-​cut shirts… I say the lower the better»
Cosmo…puh-lease…just go to Patrick & Co. for the latest word on what’s hot in stationary and to learn what drives the guys wild.

Patrick’s is an old fashioned stationary store. Yes their prices aren’t cheaper than Office Depot or Staples but they certainly make up for it in variety!
First floor has run of the mill office supplies and the biggest selection of pens I’ve ever seen!
Mezzanine — Good card selection and to die for cardstock. They have all sorts of papers under the sun! There’s also a limited supply of stickers
Top Floor — Rubber Stamps & Paper Punches
Great store to spend your lunch break in!