Brown bag it at Office Depot

Here's a novel way to bag bargains on office supplies. Office Depot is offering a promotion in which shoppers receive a 15-percent discount on the merchandise they can squeeze into a brown shopping bag, only slightly smaller than a standard grocery bag.

That could result in a nice discount on such small but pricy items as ink cartridges and high-end photo papers. Alas, the bag is too small for office furniture or equipment such as printers.