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Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:13 am to Gdellinger
And instead of absorbing some of the cost, a lot of businesses just pass it on to the consumer. A lot of businesses fail this way.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:15 am to Geauxdaddy88
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Hardly any of the flowers you get from florists are not from America. Most of the flowers are from South America.
Do you speak English? Are you also from South America?
Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:15 am to Longhorn Actual
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Are you also from South America?
south Texas
Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:17 am to Gdellinger
If it makes you feel better I just had a conversation w/ a customer that there was an understood price increase on May 1st
He drug his feet and it cost him 28k for a few hours.
Now he has a a job planned and has to do it and the vendor will not give him the credit. Literally 17 hours of indecisiveness cost him 28k. Strike when the iron is hot
He drug his feet and it cost him 28k for a few hours.
Now he has a a job planned and has to do it and the vendor will not give him the credit. Literally 17 hours of indecisiveness cost him 28k. Strike when the iron is hot
Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:26 am to Gdellinger
Whoever came up with the tariff fee is almost certainly a huge lib who thinks they are rubbing it in your face.
I’d find somewhere else
I’d find somewhere else
Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:29 am to FLTech
And?
OP, go visit a local nursery and get a nice plant vs buying cut imports that will die in a few days. Once again retailers and everyone else will take advantage of consumers.
OP, go visit a local nursery and get a nice plant vs buying cut imports that will die in a few days. Once again retailers and everyone else will take advantage of consumers.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:32 am to WhiteMandingo
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He drug his feet and it cost him 28k for a few hours.
One of my largest customers just purchased their whole year’s worth of supplies last week, trying to beat the tariffs. Mainly industrial supply and safety equipment
Posted on 5/5/25 at 10:38 am to Gdellinger
My daylilies & magnolias are blooming, you are welcome to come cut some, I'll only charge half the tariff...
Posted on 5/5/25 at 11:18 am to KosmoCramer
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The majority of cut flowers sold in the United States are imported,
Does flower shop distinguish between which ones come from where or do they just charge everyone a flat fee?
Also I thought tariff paid on import and then prices get increased on the imported items. Billy Heromans is just putting on a show or taking the opportunity to add a flat fee to all customers regardless of buying imported flowers or not. Either would not surprise me with Heromans.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 11:22 am to dallastigers
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Does flower shop distinguish between which ones come from where or do they just charge everyone a flat fee?
Each item of inventory is tracked like any other company would. Not sure why they wouldn’t
Posted on 5/5/25 at 11:22 am to Gdellinger
Who needs flowers? I mean, that's the excuse some people are using for any and all price hikes they're seeing right now. "You don't need it anyway!"
Posted on 5/5/25 at 11:23 am to KosmoCramer
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The majority of cut flowers sold in the United States are imported
damn we can't even grow our own flowers?
Posted on 5/5/25 at 11:24 am to Joe_Dirte
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damn we can't even grow our own flowers?
you know your product and labor is cheap if you can load up a few 747s every night and ship it around the world and still make a profit
Posted on 5/5/25 at 11:26 am to Gdellinger
Go support your local nursery instead. They have flowers you can plant that will last longer than your cut flowers.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 11:37 am to Joe_Dirte
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damn we can't even grow our own flowers?
We DID.
Even Knoxville had a commercial supplier from across the railroad tracks in Lenoir City where red hybrid tea roses were grown in several acres of green houses.
The state of Michigan was a major supplier of cut flowers, again from greenhouses.
What happened?
Well, your and my government decided that South America needed a crop that wasn't an illegal narcotic, and we set up rose growing in carefully chosen areas in the Andes.
No heated greenhouses needed. Hellish wasteful: plants in artificial soil, when the plants wear out, dump them and the soil and repeat the process.
FWIW, Europe gets a lot of their roses from South Africa, and the African governments are trying to define the different strains of "Black Spot".
Posted on 5/5/25 at 12:04 pm to Gdellinger
Cut flowers aren't grown locally.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 12:09 pm to 777Tiger
They fly those babies in on a big ol aeroplane.
For the baby's wedding I think I FracJetted a 777.
For the baby's wedding I think I FracJetted a 777.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 12:09 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Who needs flowers? I mean, that's the excuse some people are using for any and all price hikes they're seeing right now. "You don't need it anyway!"
Actually this “excuse” works very well with flowers. You really don’t need cut flowers.
Posted on 5/5/25 at 12:11 pm to Gdellinger
Look like mama gon get some dandelions from the neighbor’s yard this year.
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