I was rather impressed by the intern’s presentation on how our company had the potential to save around four hundred dollars a month by switching our office supply company. I had never thought too much about it since we had been using the same local company for the past ten years.

The new office supplies company that the intern wanted us to switch too was an online company. I saw my boss’s eyes when he realized that he would not be supporting the local merchants. This was always something that he prided himself in but hard times call for hard measures. If he wanted to save money on office supplies then he would have to switch to an office supply company that was not local.

Our entire staff had voted to change office supply companies and to do it by the end of the month. My boss wanted to be the one to call our current supply company and explain why we would be dropping them. I think that they took it better than to be expected. They understood the reasoning and knew that they could just not compete with the internet companies that were popping up everywhere. They figured that by the end of the year, they would probably be out of business anyway since they could not offer the same prices as the bigger national companies.