Essendant posted today that they are closing their Woburn distribution location in mid March and will be shipping products from their Albany NY distribution location starting in mid March. WOW.
Baltimore soon after.
I guess WB Mason can see the tail lights of Staples and the head lights of Amazon a whole lot brighter these days.
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As of 09/02/2025 all Coxsackie Employees were notified that November they will be closing permanently. Most employees walked out after being told last night
But my wife with only almost a year in … she is learning a lot and really an impressed her supervisors she had dreams of working her way up through hard work and dedication. She didn’t walk out last night …. She stay late to make sure the work was finished. She had the day off today but they ask if she would come in to help because the majority of her coworkers didn’t show up today, including some management .
Yet she left her dinner on the table and went to work knowing they are going to lay her off in November
So sick that these . C.E.O really don’t care about their employees .
I worked in Woburn, covid and the getting hacked ruined us. Mason bought most of the small businesses. After getting hacked they decided to get the bare minimum from Essendant. Which was 85% of the facilities products. Went from 25k lines a day to 6-7. Mason figured out how to do it themselves. After Woburn closed I worked at the South Boston Mason facility. Horrible work conditions. But every night trucks were going out full. 30-35k lines every night. Mason distanced itself from Essendant when Staples took over they saw the writing on the wall. When the hack happened they pretty much cut ties. Now 11 more Essendant facilities to close.
We have been a seller through Lagasse, United Stationers and Essendant aka Staples.
The problem they have is they did not listen to all of the hardworking committed smaller supply distributors who were screaming for a level playing field for years. We all knew we could kick the big guys butts in service and with competitive pricing we could have owned the market and Essendant's customer base would have been healthy and diversified. Fools!!!!! I tried and tried and tried and always just got lip service. Just like most big companies the CEO and friends wanted the immediate boost from big business. Shallow thinkers with questionable motives. Well we should be used to it now its happening even in our government. Why do we always end up being managed or governed by people that are not real and committed to the truth. Very Sad Deaf to their customers
isn’t mason and essendant still tied at the hip?
I've delivered for Essendant for the last ten years. Freight volume is next to nothing now. The company I work for has met with Essendant and nobody is telling us drivers anything besides just deliver if anything shows up. It's made every day stressful not knowing what the future holds.
Essendant is going out of business would be shocked if it lasts till fall of 2025.
Ever since the company decided to re-brand to Essendant from United Stationers and Lagasse the company went downhill. Harry Dochelli destroyed every piece of it. He is the absolute worst. Office Supplies have been on the downtrend since 2010 perhaps before, now the LagasseSweet business was always very profitable but his "vision" literally destroyed everything. At one point they had a fantastic platform but it's on its last legs and I expect to die here in the next two years or so. You can't grow if you don't have talented sales people. Having id--t inside sales trying to figure out the size of a cup for $60K is not going to save you from doom. Your website even though is pretty good is not enough to sustain your business model. You sell B2B not end users..........The end is near.
albany will get their payback
they are currently getting an upgrade to the 100 yr old fire suppression. once its done the building will be sellable.
Yep. My fiance transferred from the Coxsackie warehouse to a central California warehouse in 2021 when we moved for my daughters health issues. In June they told him August they were shutting the doors. So after 20+ years w the company here we are now totally effed because his unemployment just ran out. Thanks Essendant, you ah
Essendant CEO makes upwards of 2.5 million dollars a year. That's round about 48,000$ per week. Yet Essendant gets hacked under his watch! How hard is it to retain back ups of your systems??? We lost so much business because of that Hack. Well instead of firing the decision makers. You simply close warehouses sc--w people over who have worked 20, 30, 40 years. Heck he will probably get a fat a-s bonus for the consolation. I know that life ain't fair. But they are running this place a-s backwards.
yeah
following in staples path of layoffs, closures, restructuring
rinse and repeat every 4 months
Multiple facilities closed last year as well, including Mansfield, MA. Really poor Sr. leadership team literally driving the company into the ground. Too bad..
WOWZA. That Sawks.
usually when you're busy you dont close anything. you open more warehouses. Truth is Amazon is going to get so big and so good (wait... they're already good)..... that all Mason can do is try to sell boxes.
ess is closing columbus and one of the cleveland whs in feb-mar as well
it seems essendant closed a florida site in dec as well. Maybe all is not well in the masonville world?
It is a shame for the little guys but as for brockton, i won’t be a sheddin’ any tears.
Mason hasn’t deliver next day reliably since 2010. As soon as they got into “emerging categories” they were a 4-7 day delivery time with back orders and overcharging.
This hurts to say, but I think this will have more effect on the smaller independents. The independents actually care about their customers so hopefully it has the opposite effect on them.
ESS + STP = disaster!!! Both going down together!