OfficeMax

Location (Store #944)

2107 Cowell Blvd. (In Oakshade Town Center, next to Safeway)

Hours

Mon-Fri 8:00am - 9:00pm

Sat 9:00am - 7:00pm

Sun 10:00am - 6:00pm

Phone

(530)792-0824

Website

http://www.officemax.com

The local OfficeMax is kind of ratty, but they can order anything from the catalog. Shipping is free for orders over $50, which is typical for most large office supply stores. Orders can be shipped to your home/office or to the store, and they usually arrive within 1-3 business days. They carry furniture, paper, laptop bags, and all sorts of office supplies. They recently got an ink refilling system. You can get your old Dell, Lexmark, or HP ink cartridges refilled (it's cheaper than buying brand new ones), or you can recycle them and get $3 store credit.

There is a FedEx dropoff at the front of the store. The ImPress counter in the back of the store offers full-service FedEx ground and express shipping services, which is convenient for those who don't want to venture downtown to Kinko's.

There is an Impress Print and Document Services inside, which is far cheaper than Kinko's. ImPress has a wide range of products and services available, including high-quality poster printing, wide-format laminating, binding services, business cards, custom stamps (some of which can be made while-you-wait), name badges, banners, etc.

The ImPress department recently began offering document shredding services. They accept paper, file folders and envelopes. Staples and paper clips are okay, but they cannot shred credit cards or CDs. Shredding costs $.59 per pound. Simply go to the ImPress counter with your documents, they will weigh them and place them in locked, secured bins. The shredding company comes in at least once a month, but usually more often as the service is popular and the bins fill quickly. Only the shredding company has access to the documents once in the bins and they shred them on-site in the OfficeMax parking lot. Customers are provided with a copy of the "Certificate of Destruction" after their documents have been shredded, if they want one. It's recommended that you call ahead before coming in with your shredding because if the bins are full, they cannot accept any additional shredding. If you do call and they are full, it's usually only 2 or 3 days before the bins are empty again.

UC Davis students, faculty and staff receive discounts on most ImPress services which can make using ImPress substantially cheaper than any other print/copy shop in town, including UCD ReproGraphics and the campus Print Labs.

• Storage boxes - $15.99 for 10 boxes

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2006-08-28 13:30:25   If you're planning a visit to OfficeMax, save to steep in unadulterated incompetence, you might want to reconsider. Today, I phoned this establishment and very politely explained that I was seeking a very specific calculator — the TI-10. I explained that I was calling to ensure that they carried this item before I biked over. After a moment of silence, the employee informed me that yes, indeed, that particular calculator could be found in aisle seven. Imagine my delight! 40 minutes later, I was standing in this very aisle, awash in every imaginable calculator — but not the TI-10. I asked the manager, still politely, if she could help me find the TI-10, which my previous phone call verified she carried. I was met with only a blank, glassy-eyed stare. "The TI-10? Never heard of it... you mean this?" And she brandishes some HP blasphemous POS! Egad! My disappointment was offset, fortunately, by a lovely first experience at Taqueria Davis. —JamesShearer

2006-09-05 13:13:42   You will rarely find me defending this establishment (I work there, you see). But I find it quite unfair to generalize about the incompetence of the employees. Some of the members of the staff are still new and learning the ropes. There are, however, several people who have been working there for several years and really know their stuff. Whoever answered the phone should have checked the shelf (or had someone check), but since the Davis schools began last week, we have been absolutely swamped. Because we carry a fair amount of Texas Instruments calculators, she probably just assumed that we carried it. That's not an excuse, but it would be nice if people would cut us some slack. —JennSuzuki

2006-11-18 18:04:58   There is no use defending this officemax. It has to be one of the worse establishments in Davis. You said "There are, however, several people who have been working there for several years and really know their stuff." Actually, the new people are not as incompetent as the management team and the regular staff. Don't expect them to know anything about eletronics. I have reported them to the BBB before. Btw, this comment is from countless of experiences in that store. You ask, why do I keep coming back if I hate it? They are the only choice if you cant drive up to woodland. —VinhBoy

2007-03-22 16:03:53   I got so annoyed that they used to ask me like 800 times if I wanted an extended warranty on like mechanical pencils or something, but my old coworker worked there and said the manager used to work at Best Buy and forces the employees to offer it. —BradBenedict

2007-03-24 14:20:50   all the managers make them offer the extended warranties. they get yelled at if they don't offer/sell enough of them because the managers get yelled at if their store doesn't sell enough. —JennSuzuki

2007-09-24 23:48:15   Who knew getting organized would be so expensive. Very few items under $5. Other places are probably more wallet friendly. —DavidHolcomb

2007-11-13 18:06:19   When I've called OfficeMax for copying and lamination quotes from the Impress copying center in the past, they've also quoted me Kinko's price, which I've found interesting and helpful (and truthful, since I had also called Kinko's). —ElleWeber

2007-12-20 22:32:06   Horrible staff...they are just rude.... I don't know what is wrong with them??? Some of them are very nice, but some of them also are rude and not friendy at all—horrible. I was so disappointed. I prefer Kinko's and ebay.com. I will not come back unless the rude staff members don't work there anymore. —viviancute

2008-01-10 22:51:45   Not so bad, this place. I have had a normal shopping experience there. —apalley

2008-12-08 16:51:11   they have a corner rounder, but it's for 81/2x11 —StevenDaubert

2009-01-06 21:20:48   Just a normal Office Max. Nothing exceptionally good or bad —SprawlNBrawl

2009-08-26 14:25:34   I paid a visit with a friend to OfficeMax's print shop today and walked away pretty happy. We needed to print off a color calendar as a gift on card-stock and have it coil bound. Full-page photos above the month grids had to come out in the right orientation. From our quick survey of prices they were the least expensive. A few places wanted $4.99 to have paper bound; they only wanted $2.99 which includes one plastic page protector and one opaque rear protector. To have full-service color print on card-stock (including price of card-stock) was $1.14 for the first side, then $0.49 for the other side. It was LASER printed and came out perfectly... any color issues were due to my laziness at correcting for print :-). They even punched a hole to facilitate hanging the calendar for us... simple details like that make me happy. Lance helped us and he knew his stuff! —RyanMikulovsky

2009-08-27 09:07:01   OfficeMax provides one of the best discounts for university-affiliated research groups (possibly departments too), as compared to Office Depot or Staplers. At Davis, we (and our neighboring labs) used to use OfficeMax almost exclusively. I've found the same thing at UCLA, most of the lab groups in this department get a far larger discount at OfficeMax. The tradeoff is a lot less variety than their competitors (which sucks for electronics or office chairs), but our most frequent purchases are the simple supplies like paper and printer toner, so it really adds up. —EdWins

2009-10-18 18:14:08   It is not true that copies cost far less than Kinko's they're exactly the same price for black and white copies. —mewood86

2009-12-09 11:19:01   @JennSuzuki: I don't get it. Should we cut OfficeMax employees slack for not doing their jobs? I'm sick of people expecting to get slack because they're not doing what is expected of them; do your job right, and I'll stop complaining. —TimJ

2010-01-07 09:41:43   Last time I was here (1/2/10), I had a terrible experience. An employee, who reeked of cigarette smoke was very rude and made me feel as if I shouldn't be in the store unless I bought everything he relentlessly pushed on me. Needless to say I will not be returning. Save your time and money and go to Target. —DerrickJ