Staples, Inc. (SPLS), The TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX), Apple Inc. (AAPL): Back-to-School Stocks You Can Buy Right Now

This company changed the game for everyone

Back-to-school season has become more than just what we buy; it’s how we buy it! Two decades ago, retail transparency was nonexistent and we had but a few stores locally to choose from when we shopped. With the advent of the Internet and marketplaces such as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), we now have the ability to shop thousands of items at once from the convenience of our homes, and often save a few dollars along the way. A study conducted by BIGresearch between 2006 and 2012 indicates that since 2006, the number of survey respondents who plan to shop online for back-to-school items has risen from 30.5% to 37.3%. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) could become a big beneficiary of that bump. With an enormous library and tech gadgets galore, parents need not even leave their house anymore to prepare their children for the upcoming school year.

Source: U.S. Navy, Wikimedia Commons.

Charge it!

Finally, when we’ve decided on what we want to buy for back-to-school, it comes time to pay for it. This is when I suspect most consumers will be reaching into their wallets and pulling out a credit card with a Visa Inc (NYSE:V) logo on the front of it. With a whopping 40% of Visa’s payment volume originating from the U.S. and consumers’ paychecks being pressured by higher taxes, it seems only logical that many would turn to credit to finance their once-a-year purchases. Don’t discount Visa Inc (NYSE:V)’s push into prepaid debit cards, either, which could be used with increasing frequency by parents to teach children how to properly spend and save money.

The article 5 Back-to-School Stocks You Can Buy Right Now originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Sean Williams.

Fool contributor Sean Williams has no material interest in any companies mentioned in this article. You can follow him on CAPS under the screen name TMFUltraLong, track every pick he makes under the screen name TrackUltraLong, and check him out on Twitter, where he goes by the handle @TMFUltraLong.The Motley Fool owns shares of, and recommends, Amazon.com and Apple. It also owns shares of Staples and recommends Visa.

Copyright © 1995 – 2013 The Motley Fool, LLC. All rights reserved. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.