Overview
American office supply retailer headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, operating over 800 stores and 40 fulfillment centers across the US and Canada. Acquired by Sycamore Partners in 2017 for $6.9B, Staples has become a significant deployer of warehouse robotics, partnering with RightHand Robotics for AI-powered item picking and Locus Robotics for autonomous mobile robots in its fulfillment centers.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Revenue
Owner
Employees
Stores
Founded by
Financial stage
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Staples has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1RightHand Robotics2× joint2 total
- 2Locus Robotics1× joint5 total
Most recent
- Staples x RightHand Robotics2024-01-10with RightHand Roboticsoperating
- RightHand Robotics x Staples2024-01-01with RightHand Roboticsoperating
- Staples x Locus Robotics2023-09-01with Locus Roboticsoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Rachel Huckle CEOreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Staples.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Staples in third-party press
Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating
Every company Staples has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Staples x RightHand Robotics2024-01-10with RightHand Roboticsoperating
- RightHand Robotics x Staples2024-01-01with RightHand Roboticsoperating
- Staples x Locus Robotics2023-09-01with Locus Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1RightHand Robotics2× joint2 total
- 2Locus Robotics1× joint5 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- deployment2024-01-10operating
- deployment2024-01-01operating
- deployment2023-09-01operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Staples’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipStaples x RightHand Robotics
2024-01-10Staples deployed RightHand Robotics' RightPick AI-powered item-handling system across its fulfillment centers for automated order picking, enabling next-day delivery service levels.
PartnershipRightHand Robotics x Staples
2024-01-01RightHand Robotics signed a multi-year agreement with Staples (announced 2024) to deploy its AI-powered RightPick piece-picking robots across Staples fulfillment centers.
PartnershipStaples x Locus Robotics
2023-09-01Staples Canada deployed Locus Robotics autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in its fulfillment operations to boost throughput and accuracy in order picking.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-05
Sources by quality tier
- 1
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- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Staples.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Staples from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
RightHand Robotics Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Staples to Deploy AI-Powered Picking Robots in Fulfillment Centers
RightHand Robotics announced a multi-year agreement with Staples to deploy the RightPick item-handling system across Staples fulfillment centers for automated order picking.
Staples Canada rethinks its fulfillment model
Staples Canada partnered with Locus Robotics to deploy autonomous mobile robots in its fulfillment operations, boosting throughput and accuracy.
System Report: Meet Staples' family of robots
Staples operates a family of warehouse robots that autonomously pick items from donor totes and drop them into shippable cartons created by on-demand packaging systems.
System Report: Staples does robotics one better
Staples has built out its own warehouse robotics platform combining goods-to-person order picking with autonomous item picking robots from RightHand Robotics.
Sycamore Partners Completes Acquisition of Staples, Inc.
Sycamore Partners completed its acquisition of Staples for $10.25 per share in cash, or approximately $6.9 billion.
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Heat Index
Serious56/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Staples against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 3, 2026