Stationery is a goodwill where office supplies and objects are sold for students and other interested parties. That is to say, the stationery offers us, sells us, all those products and articles that in the office, at school and even at home allow us to write documents, modify them, transcribe them, highlight those fundamental issues, among other topics.
There are two types of stationery, distributors, which are those that supply other stationery items but the smallest, for example, the smallest that are established in remote or small neighborhoods. And then we can find the other type, which is the stationery for the general public, which will offer the services and supplies that any student of any level, housewife or employee can demand.
To start one of these establishments it is not necessary to have any specific training or meet specific characteristics. You only need to be a person with entrepreneurial concern and have a predisposition to acquire certain knowledge about how the company works and the items that will go on sale.
Many stationery stores also develop other parallel business lines, such as the sale of gifts or books. These sidelines generally vary in importance depending on the time of year, prompting sales on specific dates like Christmas or Valentine's Day.
With regard to the supply of material, this can be done either by direct purchase from manufacturers through their commercial agents or through wholesale stores, the latter option being chosen by the majority of paper manufacturers.
At present, due to the emergence of a new competition, exercised especially by supermarkets, they also offer characteristic articles of stationery stores, these companies have diversified and have included in their inventories new and varied services that include: fax service, paper gift, plotter, sale of gifts (stuffed animals, toys and cosmetics), among others.
Nor can we ignore in this sense that the presence of information technology in everyday life, something that did not happen a couple of decades ago, has also generated this business to add articles related to this sector to win customers and of course sales.
