Wholesale Warehouse Supply is a self-designated “Office Supply and Cleaning Supply Superstore.” Thus, its selection of cleaning supplies is more extensive than other sites surveyed. They have a good selection of general office supplies, a wide array of office furniture/accessories and a small selection of electronics. The “warehouse” in the name refers to the company itself being a warehouse, and does not imply the sale of “warehouse supplies.”
Wholesale Warehouse Supply carries all the basic office supplies like paper, writing implements and mailing supplies. The site also sells numerous accessories and peripherals for computers. They carry basic office machines like shredders and personal copiers (though there is only one selection for copiers). The site offers ink/toner and other supplies for hundreds of brands of machines while the selection of office machines they have available is relatively small.
In addition to traditional office supplies, the site carries a large selection of presentation equipment (easels, projectors, etc.) as well as cleaning and janitorial supplies.
This company does not offer any services. For your convenience in finding the right supplies for your office machines, there is a “quick supply finder” through which you select a brand name and model number to find the corresponding ink, fax paper, etc.
The Wholesale Warehouse Supply website is very basic, with main site navigation across the top and a product navigation menu along the left side of every page. You must select a family of products to use the product navigation.
A series of cascading menus pops up and you must continue selecting subcategories until you reach the bottom tier containing actual product listings. As with other sites using similar systems of sub-categorization, it can be difficult to find the exact product you need.
The search function is hit-or-miss; sometimes it comes up with the exact right products and other times it returns unrelated product listings, possibly indicating that the desired product is not available on this site. Once the site has returned results from a search, there is no way to sort or compare specific products, and all results show up on one page which can make for a lot of scrolling.
Wholesale Warehouse Supply has a customer rewards program, through which customer earn a flat-rate discount based on spending. The discount ranges from 0.5% to 3%, depending on the size of your order. The discount is not cumulative, so in order to take advantage of the maximum discount, it makes sense to order as much as possible each time. The site also offers bulk discounts as posted, but not in addition to the prices specified on the site.
Wholesale Warehouse Supply is a great source for basic office supplies and cleaning supplies for an office environment. The selection of furniture is excellent as well, and includes much more than just the essentials. The selection of electronics is small, but they do carry many of the essential supplies associated with office machines.
The website is relatively easy to use, although the product search function and the categorization of products make it difficult to find and compare options. Overall, this website is a good choice for bulk purchases (and offers discounts for large orders) and basic supplies, but it may not offer enough products to be a single source when setting up a new office space.
