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STAPLES, INC.
500 Staples Drive
Framingham, Massachusetts 01702
______________________________________________________________________
Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held
on June 2, 2014
______________________________________________________________________
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Staples, Inc. will be held at the Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto,
California, on June 2, 2014 at 8:00 a.m., local time, to consider and act upon the following matters:
(1) To elect eleven members of the Board of Directors to hold office until the 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or
until their respective successors have been elected or appointed.
(2) To approve the Staples, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan.
(3) To approve, on an advisory basis, named executive officer compensation.
(4) To ratify the selection by the Audit Committee of Ernst & Young LLP as Staples' independent registered public
accounting firm for the current fiscal year.
(5) To act on two stockholder proposals, if properly presented.
(6) To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement
thereof.
Stockholders of record at the close of business on April 7, 2014 will be entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting or
any adjournment or postponement thereof.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Michael T. Williams
Framingham, Massachusetts
April 11, 2014
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOUR SHARES BE REPRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING. THEREFORE,
WHETHER OR NOT YOU EXPECT TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROXY
(1) OVER THE INTERNET, (2) BY TELEPHONE OR (3) BY MAIL. FOR SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS, PLEASE
REFER TO THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BEGINNING ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE PROXY STATEMENT
AND THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE PROXY CARD RELATING TO THE ANNUAL MEETING.
"STREET NAME" HOLDERS WHO PLAN TO ATTEND THE MEETING WILL NEED TO BRING A COPY OF A
BROKERAGE STATEMENT REFLECTING THEIR STOCK OWNERSHIP IN STAPLES, INC. AS OF THE
RECORD DATE.