Nov.25, 2014
MakerBot and Staples, one of the world's largest suppliers of office supplies and technology for schools, businesses and home offices, announced that MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers and Digitizer 3D Scanners are now available in 50 Staples retail stores across 18 states and online. This partnership makes Staples the exclusive office supply company to offer MakerBot 3D printing and scanning products in the store.
MakerBot 3D Printing and Scanning products will be showcased inside Staples retail locations, with kiosks designed to show the power and versatility of 3D printing to Staples' wide range of customers.
The list of Staples retail stores featuring MakerBot products can be found on Staples.com here.
"We are excited to partner with Staples to help bring MakerBot 3D printing technology to Staples customers," noted Jenny Lawton, acting chief executive officer of MakerBot, a global leader in the desktop 3D printer market. "Using the MakerBot 3D Printing Ecosystem, Staples customers can now integrate technology into their workflow, lesson plans and transform their design process."
"Staples is committed to offering its customers the most innovative products and services wherever they want to shop, in-store or online," said Mike Edwards, executive vice president, merchandising, Staples, Inc. "By bringing the MakerBot 3D Ecosystem to Staples, we're helping our customers make more happen with their business or in their classroom."
Staples will also offer access to in-store 3D print orders through RedEye, a Stratasys company and one of the world's leading additive manufacturing service bureaus.
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What would really be interesting to see is how they handle all the support calls that they're going to start to get. Having not one, but two machines that are flawed is really going to be an eye opener for Staples!
ganter wrote at 11/25/2014 10:02:42 PM:
In my location, Home Depot and Staples are quite near one another, it will be interesting to see if either of these stores has any significant sales. With a normal product at HD, if there are no units of sale in about three weeks, then the product is gone from the store!
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