This is a great local shop that carries a wide selection of stationary items that I just love! Of…read morecourse the usual writing implements but also refills, notebooks, mailing envelopes, colorful single sheets of paper in large and small sizes with matching envelopes, tea towels, CA themed goodies and more! Items are more pricey than the big chain stores but it's okay because when I need something in a pinch, this shop is perfect. On another occasion, I stopped in for a specific type of birthday card that they didn't have when I eyed the Chinese New Year red envelopes. The price? A couple dollars for one. Yikes! Parking is generally easy and free. The staff is friendly and helpful. Please support this local business. Go in and browse the goodies here.

If you love (and use) fine stationery, this is your happy place! Lots of open stock pens, sealing…read morewax and brass seals, pen refills, fountain pens and fountain pen supplies, fountain pen-friendly papers, and of course, cards and a small amount of giftware! They have journals, planners, planner refills, Crane stationery, and a selection of fine gift wrap. You can find Claire Fontaine and Rhodia products here, as well as a few European and Japanese brands. I can usually find what I need here without assistance, so I don't really have much of an opinion about the customer service except to say that it's not exceptionally warm personalities at the register. This isn't important to me, but if it is for you, this is not a place where the staff will hold your hand or check on you actively. Still a solid little neighborhood stationery store, and very different in terms of stock and character from its sister store in Berkeley's Elmwood Neighborhood (I shop both).

Good that there are staff asking if you need any help in the store. No one at the print area. Can…read moreno longer bring in papers and have them bound while you stand there. Everything is now "online" and you have to drop off and come back later. I made the mistake once of having to come here on a Saturday. Do not come on that day if you can avoid it. The parking lot in front is so small, and the hordes of people going to the Goodwill next door will park anywhere they can, even preventing you from getting out of the parking space.

Chris, the nice human at the printing/FedEx section, is always ready to help sort out shipping. He…read moreis helpful, knowlegable, efficient, friendly and I look forward to seeing him!

Way overpriced! Tariffs on paper products? Go to the family…read moreowned smaller places. $20 for 4 sharpies? No thanks.

After saving used pens for years, I finally found that Staples accepts them!…read more Eric helped me out and even enrolled me so that when I bring more recyclables, I get points. They take batteries and ink cartridges as well. Easy parking and I nice store to boot!

This is a great shop depending on what you're looking for and if they have it at that moment. I…read morefound a great, comfortable Herman Miller office chair! There are desk chairs, waiting room chairs, filing cabinets, desks and a large variety of office stuff. They didn't have any monitors at the time I went (technically electronics), but they did have desks. You do have to look around as its a warehouse of office furniture. They're open Thurs-through Sunday. They accept cash, checks and credit cards. I tried to give some cash to support this small business. In the past I've donated office furniture and am pleased to now find something new for my office! Enter in through the long driveway and go all the way to the back to park. It looks like a warehouse because it is! Not a retail storefront...

First went to this place in the mid-90s. It was in a different t location, then. Still has amazing…read moreservice, great prices and good finds.

Manny is the man! He is the chair whisperer :)…read more I walked in knowing I needed a nice office chair for a reasonable amount of money, but not knowing where to start. Found a great deal/ a great chair quickly and my back says thank you! Will be back.

5 stars to Manny for his great knowledge and help!…read more Right when we came in he was fully attentive to us and provided 3 top recommendations for office chairs, while asking our preferences and needs. He explained all of the features of each chair, with demonstrations, all while not being pushy or rushing us. He gave us our space while letting us test out the chairs at our own pace, while he was nearby. We ended up going with his personal favorite and 1 of the top chairs they had, the Steelcase Amia. It had all the adjustments imagined and great comfort and lumbar support, plus different material/color options. Top quality chairs here go for $380-425 ish (used) when many of these go for $1000+ new/retail. There's some slight wear on them but nothing too bad. Most seem in great condition and good quality; not super beat up Thanks Manny

Great customer service! At a UPS Pack and Ship, this is really all that matters. I'm not sure about…read morevalue (which depends more on service needs anyway), but the employees will definitely do their best to handle whatever business you have.

Quinn, a sales associate, is fantastic. Super helpful, friendly and great attitude. Was very nice…read moresending a returned item, for a change.

First off. Larry is a great guy. Very friendly. A true gentleman this is in no way a review about…read morehis character. It is a review based on his services and communication. I hired Larry to install two TV's one with a solution which he recommended, and One a standard mount to the wall. I did have multiple communication issues with Larry where he agreed to a certain day and time, then forgot which day he agreed to. This wasn't a huge inconvenience as he was able to re-accommodate the original date. I had originally asked him if I could pay by credit card, and he stated it shouldn't be a problem. Then in the end it became a problem. All of this is just an inconvenience. But I guess I'm an old fashioned kinda guy. I always go by what people communicate to me. If you don't live by your word, what good is your word you know? The main issue was he stated it would take six hours and it took multiple days. What ended up happening in the end is that he was expecting that I would pay for them to learn about the solution he had recommended. I informed him I was paying for his experience and if he had none in this particular solution then he should not have recommended said solution. If I asked him to do something custom I would gladly pay the overages. But again this was his recommendation and he had never mounted this type of mount that he himself recommended. The customer should not be forced to pay for training time. Otherwise the customer could have taken that same time to do it themselves. Larry was supposed to come back on Saturday to finish the rest of the work as they couldn't complete it in the same day and he couldn't make it, we were waiting for him then texted me to say he would come on Sunday, "since the day had gotten away from him". He did come on Sunday and finished up. At the end the work they did was fine. Everything is functioning as it should and it looks good. If the communication, and time for install were better this would have been a five star review. All in all I don't think I'll be using his services again. There are other options that are less expensive which provide the same quality of workmanship. I've actually used them at home and at my company before. But I thought I'd give Larry a try...it was unfortunate that I was disappointed.

I had the pleasure to have Larry Goodloe of Smarthome-office Inc installed my HD CCTV security…read moresurveillance camera at my home recently. All I can say here is a business with integrity and professionalism! I contacted Smarthome-Office Inc after performing some extensive research on the web and calling all the different security camera resellers/installers and was not very impress with the extremely high quotes and reviews. I contacted a Yelp 5 stars TV-Installer.com John Maino who recommended Smarthome-Office Inc to me. As I trust John with his recommendation, I made an appointment with Larry. Long story short, Larry went out of his way to make sure everything was taken care off, educated me on security cameras and the difference between consumer products vs industrial business CCTV products. He recommended a Flir security HD camera system to me which I thought I was not able to afford only to find out with Larry dealer pricing, he was able to match a retail Swann security camera package with a Flir HD security camera package which is like buying a Mercedes and paying a VW price for it. The Flir system is so great, excellent pictures at night without lights and it sends me a text when the motion sensor detect movement at my front door, so whey UPS or FedEx drop off a package, it will send me a picture of the delivery person with my package. How cool is that? Larry told me his distributor had the Flir security camera system in stock only to find out the day he went to pick it up, they were sold out! So here we go I thought a few weeks of waiting, but NO, Larry found one 3 hours away and he drove there to pick it up and no extra cost to me. Larry spend 3 days at my house and only bid for one day, he told me he will cap the labor charge time off at the 10 hours he quoted but I was so happy with his work that I paid him double which is still less than the cost for the other CCTV dealers quoted. So Larry was happy and so was I. I had a lot of experience with contractors and all I can say is Larry was as good as they get, he was on time, very clean and meticulous with his work! This business is so good that I made it a point to tell all my friends and family to use this company if they need a CCTV system. My CCTV already helped me as we had a breaking & Entering on my block, first one we had since I been here for 16 years and I believe I caught the guys on video. With our police being stretch and cities not responding to alarm calls, I would highly recommend for you to step up and protect yourself with a CCTV as it is a great deterrent for these amateur criminals as they rather pick a house that is not protected by CCTV. Give Larry a call, he will sit down and let you know your options for CCTV cameras. Thanks again Larry, wish I can do more than giving you a great review for you and your company By the way, looked into Comcast home security, they don't keep the recordings so if you are on vacation and someone breaks into your home, to bad!.

Needed more notebooks. Ordered online and pickup was easy. I walked in and notebooks were ready…read more Customer service, once again, was very good. The young guy was very patient with me and looked for my notebooks. Also shopped around for a few more 5 subject notebooks in store: very good prices. I think the best price Monday the Tri Valley, even better than Target especially when Target was out of stock in store. Will come again.

This was my conversation today…read more Me: hello Staples employee: what do you need? Me: is there a TSA pre-check screener available today? Staples employee: they are not here Me: are they on a break or are they done for today? Staples employee I don't know when they will come back Me: should I come back next week? Staples employee: I don't know Me: should I look online for a phone number to call? Staples employee: yes After that interaction, I thanked her, turned around and left. I don't think I'll be going here again to get screened. I'd rather go all the way to the Oakland airport.

This Relax the Back store is located next to the new Barnes and Noble store and across the Ike…read moresandwich shop. I really appreciated thorough explanation as my son tries out many different ergonomic chairs at the store. We previously tried inexpensive (depending on personal definitions) ergonomic chairs sold through Amazon, etc. We learned that these so called ergonomic chairs sold at Amazon and other equivalent stores aren't that great for us with backpain. You know those arrive in pieces in a box for customers to assemble, hopefully correctly and have all the pieces arrived to assemble. This Relax the Back store has many different ranges of ergonomic chairs for people in different sizes, back pain issues, and preferences. We liked the ergonomic chair my son picked after trying out many and listening to the store manager's detailed explanation. Highly recommend this place rather than just buying one to assemble and try out only to find out that I need a better ergonomic chair.

I just purchased a LifeForm 2390 Ultimate Executive High Back Office Chair…read more My old Back Saver chair died recently. After the funeral and the mourning period, it was on to the search for a high quality replacement. I did online research and found that the Back Saver company is gone and so LifeForm seems to be the only game in town now. I did a lot of research with the rep from LifeForm via email and phone calls but ultimately, you gotta sit in the chair to know for sure. So I went to the Relax The Back store. Kevin helped me with the purchase and he was able to show me the chairs and knew the product pretty well. There was another guy there who knew the things Kevin did not. There were multiple floor models and so I was able to really nail down the chair I wanted. That's important because LifeForm has A LOT of options. The store was clean and fresh and they had what I needed to make my decision. I only gave 4 stars because the store visit was not perfect. There were several broken chairs on the floor. They looked fine but their mechanisms had problems. Also, Kevin dropped the F-bomb on the phone, which is highly unprofessional. Otherwise, working with Relax The Back was as expected. Here is what I bought ... 2390 Ultimate Executive High Back Office Chair ($3,595.00): PREMIUM LEATHER TYPE: Harness Black NECK PILLOW: No Neck Pillow ARM PADS: Standard-Ergo M Pads - Stationary (Harness Black Leather) ( + $35.00 ) ARM SLEEVES: No Arm Sleeves SEAT TYPE: Deep Contour Seat ( + $229.00 ) MECHANISM: Standard KTSS+FTS CONTRAST STITCHING: No Contrast Stitching INSERT PANEL: No Insert Panel UPHOLSTERY PATTERN: No Upholstery Pattern CONTRAST PIPING: No Contrast Piping EMBROIDERY: No Embroidery THERMAGUARD: Standard - No Thermaguard GAS LIFT: Standard - 1.5in High Taper Gas Lift BASE: Venta Aluminum 5 Star Wheel Base ( + $175.00 ) CASTERS: Soft Wheel Casters ( + $55.00) SLIP COVER: Harness Black Leather ( + $129 ) $500 promotional discounts Final Price: $3,718.00 with free shipping!