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47
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Office Depot, Inc.:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Office Depot, Inc. and subsidiaries (the
“Company”) as of December 29, 2007 and December 30, 2006 and the related consolidated statements of earnings,
stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 29, 2007. These
financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of
Office Depot, Inc. and subsidiaries at December 29, 2007 and December 30, 2006, and the results of their operations
and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 29, 2007, in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 29, 2007, based on the criteria
established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of
the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 25, 2008 expressed an unqualified opinion in the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Certified Public Accountants
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
February 25, 2008