In response to the Valentine Flower delivery vent.
I originally posted this response on the original post, but I really wanted to get my point out there.......
First to Soon 2 Be Mrs 2006, I'm sorry that you didn't receive your V-day flowers. It really is too bad. I'm sorry that you had to deal with a rude person, that was not right.
Now, for the part where I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of unhappy responses. Let me begin by saying I have worked in the floral retail business for over 7 years.
To bride Johnsae: You said in your post that florists should over staff themselves in anticipation. There is normally about 3 people working in our shop on a normal day. On Valentines day we brought in 7 people to work the shop.
To Bride JPC 4806: Who suggested to have Multiple drivers. On a normal day we have 1 driver, maybe 2. For Valentines day we brought in 5 men. Still with this, devileries were not completed until about 7:30pm us. Even with each delivery man being assigned different zones such as: business delivery man, local deliverly man, ect.
I'm sorry but a lot of people do not understand how difficult it is to work on high volume days such as Valentines day and Mothers day. How can every woman get there flowers by 1:00pm. It is impossible. Florists Shops do the VERY best they can can do to make everyone happy.
As for prices being jacked up, that is because of the high prices we pay to get from Whole salers at this time. Chain stores such as Supermarkets can sell things for cheaper because they buy in huge quanities for a large amount of stores, and get deals. Indivalual shops do not recieve this. If a florist buys a say a rose for 2 dollars, they charge you say 4 dollars, becuase they need to make profit, to pay store rent, supplies, as well as employees pay ,ect.
I hope that I don't make to many enemies with this post. But please try to be more understanding, not of the rude people, but of the hard efforts we make to give you the very best. And to be fair, after not leaving our shop until 3:30am on the 13th, to complete early moring orders, then to return at 6:00am to only be able to then leave the shop on the Valenitnes at 10:pm. People get alittle rude, IT IS WRONG, I agree! But it happens, can any of you really say that you have never been rude, to a client, costomer, ect, even just once?
Ladies please be a little more understanding, and not fast to spread around which shops should not be frequented. This is people livelyhoods we are takling about.
To Happy Bride 11-5-06, thank you for being the only other peson to stick up for the hardworkeing florists on this thread.
One more thing, for people who think there Valentines day was bad, because there flowers arrived late (which by the way, I think you were too hard on the driver, who seemed to be really trying to get them to you.) Think about all the people out there who didn't get anything. And also think about all the florists and drivers who had to miss a romantice Valentines dinner and evening with their sweethearts to make everyone elses day perfect.
This is only my opinion. Please don't be too hard on me.
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First to Soon 2 Be Mrs 2006, I'm sorry that you didn't receive your V-day flowers. It really is too bad. I'm sorry that you had to deal with a rude person, that was not right.
Now, for the part where I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of unhappy responses. Let me begin by saying I have worked in the floral retail business for over 7 years.
To bride Johnsae: You said in your post that florists should over staff themselves in anticipation. There is normally about 3 people working in our shop on a normal day. On Valentines day we brought in 7 people to work the shop.
To Bride JPC 4806: Who suggested to have Multiple drivers. On a normal day we have 1 driver, maybe 2. For Valentines day we brought in 5 men. Still with this, devileries were not completed until about 7:30pm us. Even with each delivery man being assigned different zones such as: business delivery man, local deliverly man, ect.
I'm sorry but a lot of people do not understand how difficult it is to work on high volume days such as Valentines day and Mothers day. How can every woman get there flowers by 1:00pm. It is impossible. Florists Shops do the VERY best they can can do to make everyone happy.
As for prices being jacked up, that is because of the high prices we pay to get from Whole salers at this time. Chain stores such as Supermarkets can sell things for cheaper because they buy in huge quanities for a large amount of stores, and get deals. Indivalual shops do not recieve this. If a florist buys a say a rose for 2 dollars, they charge you say 4 dollars, becuase they need to make profit, to pay store rent, supplies, as well as employees pay ,ect.
I hope that I don't make to many enemies with this post. But please try to be more understanding, not of the rude people, but of the hard efforts we make to give you the very best. And to be fair, after not leaving our shop until 3:30am on the 13th, to complete early moring orders, then to return at 6:00am to only be able to then leave the shop on the Valenitnes at 10:pm. People get alittle rude, IT IS WRONG, I agree! But it happens, can any of you really say that you have never been rude, to a client, costomer, ect, even just once?
Ladies please be a little more understanding, and not fast to spread around which shops should not be frequented. This is people livelyhoods we are takling about.
To Happy Bride 11-5-06, thank you for being the only other peson to stick up for the hardworkeing florists on this thread.
One more thing, for people who think there Valentines day was bad, because there flowers arrived late (which by the way, I think you were too hard on the driver, who seemed to be really trying to get them to you.) Think about all the people out there who didn't get anything. And also think about all the florists and drivers who had to miss a romantice Valentines dinner and evening with their sweethearts to make everyone elses day perfect.
This is only my opinion. Please don't be too hard on me.
