02/08/2023
With Valentine's Day just around the corner you will most likely be seeing a lot of ads for 800-Flowers, FTD, TeleFlora, ProFlowers and other 'order gathering' flower companies. These companies never even touch a flower!
Did you know when you shop at 1-800-flowers, Avas Flowers, Terrys Flowers, For You Flowers, etc, you are actually paying more for your order, getting less, and giving your money to a large corporation?
1-800-flowers charges you a $14.99 service fee and an additional $2.99 for a Saturday delivery. When you click the service fee icon they show a picture of a florist hand delivering your order and explain that your order is hand delivered by a florist. While that is true they do not give the delivering florist that $15.00 service charge to deliver or the $2.99 for the Saturday delivery. In fact, they do not give the delivering florist anything to deliver. They also keep 27 percent of the posted price of the flowers and give the florist making the order no delivery fee and 73% of the bouquet price to make and deliver your arrangement.
If your order is $69.99 plus the service fee of $14.99 plus the $2.99 Saturday charge, you pay $87.97 plus tax.
The florist is given $51.08.
You are then getting a $41.08 arrangement and $10 to deliver.
The moral of the story is to Shop Local. You get a better product and put your money into your community and help a small business keep jobs local.
