Locust Grove Florist

Just a little fyi, shop local

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% 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.

So please call your local florist

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