Buying One Sharpie

About once every 5 years I need to buy a new Sharpie brand marker. I don’t use a Sharpie very often, but there are two or three things – writing on CD-ROMs, labeling file folders, etc. – that I only use a Sharpie for, and a single one thus lasts me half a decade.

Yesterday I went up to Staples in Charlottetown to buy this lustrum’s indelible marker. Except at Staples – a big box office supply store – you cannot buy a single regular old Sharpie:

Sharpie Display at Staples

The best I could do was, for $2.49, buy a single “Two Tips in One!” Sharpie that’s actually much heftier than I prefer.

An example, alas, of everything that’s wrong with the way retailing is trending.

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Submitted by Peter Rukavina on

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I would imagine that a household such as yours would have some sort of daily delivery of Sharpies, acid-free paper, etc. arranged with a London stationer.

Submitted by Heather M on

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I love a good Sharpie..we found a new use for the colour packs this summer my daughter them to make her own t-shirts.

Submitted by alexander on

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As a kid getting to grab a handful of markers and erasers and whatever else I could hold at the Paper Station downtown was better than a trip to the candy store.

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