Staples' other store is located about four miles away from the Main Ave. location. After these four closures, about 24 Staples stores remain in the Nutmeg state, and some 840 stores remain nationwide.

Headquartered in Framingham, Mass., Staples Inc. operates nearly 1,000 stores, with a Staples retail store located within 10 miles of more than half of the U.S. population.

The store-closing move, which follows the elimination of 48 locations in 2016, will affect about 5 percent of stores in North America. Staples had 1,559 locations in the U.S. and Canada ...

Those results prompted Staples to say it would close 70 more stores, or 4.5% of its 1,600 remaining locations, during the current fiscal year. It closed 48 stores last year and has shuttered about ...