I do so love office supplies - and I've gone to Target SO OFTEN during school supply season when I wanted to get specialized notebooks for my faves like Frozen and Star Wars - but I have to avoid that area like the plague now since I just recently unloaded about 30 journals/notebooks I was never going to use since I have dozens that have only a few pages filled. But anyway...
I actually worked in a college bookstore where we always had construction paper available in our art supply section, so I found it funny how you brought up about it being as rare as a unicorn to find out in the wild of stores! For being such a small store, we actually had a lot for prospective students to buy (something I should probably be proud of in retrospect).
But, yes, totally relatable article! I'll miss the days when I could browse the school supply section with abandon! But I'm on a no-notebook-buying ban for good, it seems...