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Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS (http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=SPLS&selected=SPLS)) is one of the world's largest office supply retail store chains, with over 1,600 stores worldwide, including stores in the United States, Belgium, Canada (Staples Business Depot), France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The company's first store was opened in Brighton, Massachusetts in 1986. The company is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.
The L in the logo is a stylized staple.
Staples Center
Staples, Inc. is one of the corporate sponsors of the Staples Center.
Staples Advertising
Throughout most of the company's history, Staples employed the slogan "Yeah, we've got that.", signifying their wide selection of products. This slogan was retired in 2003, to be replaced with "That was easy." Expanding on that theme, 2005 ads featured a large red push button marked "easy". Plastic replicas of the "easy button" were distributed as Staples stores.
Snowbot
The Staples Snowbot was an advertising character that appeared in television and print advertising during the 2000 and 2001 Christmas seasons.
The Snowbot was a robot shaped like a snowman who refuses to let go of the ink jet printer he has fallen in love with. After the printer is wrestled from his grasp, the robot utters a monotone "Weeping. Weeping." He is consoled by a Staples employee who offers him a computer mouse instead.
The robot's "Weeping. Weeping." catchphrase briefly became a popular meme on internet, and the ad itself was parodied in a 2002 Christmas ad for Dell Computers, in which a robot hassles a shopper (including striking him with a candy cane) when he attempts to purchase a PC at an unnamed office supplies retailer.
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