This place is like a giant, shiny warehouse filled with so much stuff it would be a stretch to associate all of it with an office. Or rather, if someone out there had the largest, most pimped-out office in the world (Trump?), they could shop here.
It's useful the range is so large that it includes couches, ones that you can generally sit down on (or even lie down on; yes, I've done it) when you're over the whole trip and your companions are still roaming the aisles. Because it's a warehouse however you immediately feel the endless space and air conditioning as a welcome treat when you step inside. The scattered staff are friendly if you go up to them, but otherwise they keep to themselves, creating a feeling of having the place to yourself. It's a travesty that they don't have shopping trolleys at Officeworks, because these long, spacious warehouse aisles were made for trolley racing. I suspect if they had trolleys I could get away with it, but maybe immature people like me are the reason they don't have trolleys in the first place.
I won't rant on about the product range; most people are familiar with it and you can see it on their website. I will say that I generally find items such as general stationary (pens, post-its, sticky tape, Blu Tack etc) to be more expensive than they should be. (Boy, are they laid out prettily, though. Anyone who secretly enjoys stationary will know what I mean.) Even the impulse-purchase reduced items at the counter (USBs) are more expensive than the same thing from Woolworths.
I did get to buy some iron-on transfer paper here, though, and for that I'm grateful. It was the only place in inner-city Brisbane the day I visited that seemed to stock it, and I needed to make a t-shirt for Halloween. read more