Office Depot loss widens; Shares drop

Office Depot reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss as the recession weighed on sales at the #2 U.S. office supplies retailer, & its shares fell 13%. The recession hit sales of office supplies hard as consumers & small businesses buy fewer big-ticket items like furniture & computers. The 2nd-Q net loss at the Boca Raton, FL-based company widened to $82M, or 31