Is Office Depot Still in Business? Office Depot Business FAQs

In my job, I'm the person businesses call when the normal supply chain takes too long. I've handled 240+ rush orders over the last six years—office furniture, print jobs, tech setups, you name it. Lately the questions have been a strange mix: Is Office Depot still in business? Can I order a Bambu Lab 3D printer? How do I connect HP printer to computer?

Here's the FAQ I actually send to clients. No fluff, no 'every company is different' filler.

Is Office Depot still in business?

As of April 2025, yes. Office Depot and OfficeMax operate under The ODP Corporation. The retail footprint has shrunk compared to ten years ago, and individual stores close from time to time. But the company hasn't announced a full shutdown. The Office Depot Business division is still active, and that's where the company's focus has shifted since the retail consolidation.

What most people don't realize is that the B2B distribution side is the core of the business now. A local store closing doesn't mean Office Depot disappeared. When you see a headline saying 'Office Depot shutting down,' ask whether it's a specific location or the entire corporation. Those are two very different things.

For comparison: what was best practice in 2020—grab a cart and wander the aisles—isn't how most business customers use Office Depot in 2025. They order through a business account, get delivery, and only use stores for urgent pickups. From a supply-chain perspective, the shift is pretty obvious. Store shelves are curated for impulse and emergency purchases. Contracts, pricing, and delivery are handled through the B2B system. So 'store closing?' can still be true while 'company closing?' is false.

Is that 'Office Depot going out of business sale' real?

Sometimes, but read the fine print. If a specific store is closing, that store may run a going-out-of-business sale. Those clearance events are real—for that location. They don't mean the whole company is liquidating. As of now, I haven't seen any official announcement of a company-wide closing.

Here's something vendors won't tell you: 'going out of business sale' is also a favorite phrase for scam listings. Official clearance pages live on officedepot.com. If you search for 'office depot going out of business sale' and land on a random domain with too-good deals, step back. I only started checking the store's official location page before driving after ignoring it once and finding a permanently closed building. (The online inventory said 'in stock,' ugh.)

If you do visit a closing store, ask about furniture and tech. Those items are often excluded from the sale, or they're sold 'as-is' with no returns. For a business purchase, a return policy matters more than a discount.

Is Office Depot Business worth it for small companies?

Probably, if you buy more than a few hundred dollars in supplies a month. A business account gives you a single invoice for multiple departments, access to business pricing, delivery threshold waivers, and rewards that show up as account credits. The discount can be okay. That's not what makes it valuable.

In my role coordinating office supply orders, the biggest advantage of an Office Depot Business account is history. We can reorder with a few clicks. More importantly, approvals and ship-to addresses are already in the system. When a client needs something delivered by tomorrow morning, I don't want to waste forty minutes re-entering billing details.

The other underrated part is buyer controls. If your company uses procurement cards or P-cards, the Business portal lets you assign order types and cost centers ahead of time. That saved us once when a client needed to split one rush order across two budgets before the card's cutoff time.

Can I buy a Bambu Lab 3D printer through Office Depot?

It depends. Office Depot's technology assortment changes by season and location. In my experience, Bambu Lab machines are usually not sitting on the shelf at a local Office Depot. You'll have better luck ordering directly from Bambu Lab or an authorized reseller. That's especially true if you're looking for a current model like the Bambu Lab A1 or an X1 Carbon.

But that doesn't mean Office Depot is useless for your 3D printing setup. Everything I'd read said niche hardware should always be bought direct from the manufacturer. In practice, I still order filament, glue sticks, and small accessories through Office Depot Business because the account already has payment and shipping locked in. If I need a backup roll by noon and my direct supplier takes three days, the B2B catalog wins.

For 3D printing, the printer is only part of the cost. Filament, spare nozzles, and build plates add up. When I price a 3D printing setup for a client, I compare the direct price with the total cost of getting replacement supplies fast.

How do I connect an HP printer to a computer?

Here's how to connect HP printer to computer without pulling out a manual. For 90% of modern HP printers, the fastest path is the HP Smart app. Install it from HP's website or the Microsoft Store, then follow the on-screen setup. The app usually finds the printer automatically.

1. Turn the printer on and connect it to the same Wi-Fi network you use.
2. Open HP Smart and choose Add Printer.
3. If it doesn't show up, connect the printer to the computer temporarily with a USB cable.
4. Let HP Smart run the setup. When it's done, you can remove the USB cable and use Wi-Fi.

I'm not 100% sure which button combination your specific model needs for wireless pairing, but the app covers most of that. On older printers, you might need to press the WPS button on your router and then on the printer. HP Smart will tell you.

A common mistake is opening weird driver websites instead of using HP Smart. Stay on hp.com or the official store. The app handles both USB and network setup. If it says no printer found, restart both devices and check the Wi-Fi light.

What does a rounding calculator have to do with office buying?

A rounding calculator rounds numbers to a chosen precision. For office managers, that's usually the nearest cent or nearest dollar. It sounds silly until you're reconciling a purchase order with 47 line items, separate tax rates for three locations, and shipping that shows up in cents. A rounding calculator makes sure every line item follows the same rule.

Our internal rule is to round to the nearest cent for invoice matching and to the nearest dollar for budgets. We use that for everything from printer paper to filament to a Bambu Lab accessory. It might not be a headline feature, but I've seen a $0.02 rounding mismatch become a whole phone call. The calculator kills that.

You can also do the same thing in Excel with ROUND(), but a calculator is quicker when you're on the phone with a supplier and need to confirm a total.

What do you do when a business order is wrong and you're out of time?

Call first. Email is easy to ignore. I've handled enough rush orders to know that a phone call gets a ticket number and a real human who can check local store inventory.

In March 2024, a client called at 9:15 a.m. with a presentation the next morning and 75 binding covers that hadn't arrived. Normal shipping would have taken four days. The rep found stock at a store twenty miles away. We paid a small fee to have it pulled and ready, and a courier picked it up before lunch. The client's alternative was presenting without printed covers to a room full of executives.

That's the thing about Office Depot still being in business—the stores that remain are useful for exactly this. They turn a four-day failure into a same-day fix.