Area shoppers will have one fewer option to buy office supplies soon, after the Staples store on Corridor G will close its doors to the public on May 7.
Workers at the store would not comment on why it is closing, or how many employees would be losing their jobs.
The Staples in Cross Lanes will remain open and will take in some employees from the Corridor G store, according to a manager at the Cross Lanes store who would not give his name.
The closure of the office supplies store comes in the midst of an attempted merger between Staples and Office Depot on the national level.
Staples is attempting to buy Office Depot, but the Federal Trade Commission has opposed the deal. The FTC believes that the deal will create unfair prices for businesses that buy office supplies in bulk.
Earlier this week, lawyers for Staples and Office Depot surprised the business community when they said that they would not present a defense to a federal judge because they considered the FTC's case against the deal weak.
"They haven't met their burden," Diane Sullivan, a lawyer for Staples, told U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan. She called the government's case an "utter failure."
In South Charleston, there's an Office Max in Dudley Farms Plaza, across Corridor G from Staples in Southridge Centre.
Office Max was bought by Office Depot in 2013, so if Staples and Office Depot's deal were to go through, then the two office supply companies on Corridor G would share an owner.
Bloomberg News contributed to this report. Reach Daniel Desrochers at dan.desrochers@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-4886 or on twitter at @drdesrochers.