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Staples Founder: Tom Stemberg

Posted by Mary Caraccioli | Filed under Innovators, Lifestyle, shopping, Videos

Tom Stemberg founded office supply superstore Staples, partly because he couldn’t get office supplies on a holiday weekend. Stemberg talks to me about the origins of one of the innovations in retailing.

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Permalink | June 29th, 2009

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