Florist News

It's always hard to read between the lines but sometimes you just get the feeling you're not getting the whole story. Obviously they are under no obligation to 'tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth'...only what looks good in terms of PR (Carrie is the expert in this field)

Given that the whole operation was outsourced to World Flowers (W/F) it would seem that Tesco was in a win-win situation regardless of the level of orders. I would assume that W/F paid for the website maintenance (par for the course with suppliers). So if it was a contribution to bottom line profits and i can't see how they could incur a loss (they're not that silly)..why dump it?

The content on Tesco.com must have been a positive thing. It's not like they had to display the order volumes or give out anything negative.

It just makes me wonder, flowers being such a huge market and Tesco being the largest retailer of these things, combined with the relentless pursuit of world domination. Why give up on it altogether. It's not like they can't afford to throw money at it.

Is there another angle in the pipeline?

Are they going to do things differently?

There must have been a contract with W/F. Could it be that they must technically stay out of the market for a while before launching their own service? Hard to see that..It's normally a case of 'Don't like it...tough biscuit...sue us if you like'

And another thing..If W/F also supply Sainsbury & John Lewis..what's happened to customer choice?
Isn't it a bit like Flowersdirect/Boots/Debenhams etc

Are people starting to realize that all these sites just filter down to the same wharehouse?

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Realised I hadn't put the link into my earlier posting so here it is if anyone wants to see the article we've put up.

It's based on direct comments sent to us by both Tesco and World.

Master Florist - News and Events

I do have an opinion ... although Fly you raise some other thoughts which I want to think about and will be uploading my comment later tonight or first thing tomorrow.

C

Carrie

It was Sunday 27 April Mail on Sunday. In the 'You' supplement.

They did suggest that readers try their local florist for cello tho, to pack out a vase to raise the short stemmed supermarket flowers up to the sort of length that florists shops normally supply .

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brilliant news cracking open the champers now

maybe we should also ask the magazine to do an article on florists to put our point across as to why people should chose us over supermarkets add my name pleeese... anything to stop the british isles being taken over by tesco.
somthing i cant understand is when most people i talk to hate tesco with a vengeance most do thier shopping at tesco i dont and will not i would rather spend a little bit more and use the little shops like butchers bakers greengrocers florists!! and the good old co-op.

we have a tesco visit coming to see the piggies soon(we do not deal with them directly,through another party)and they are bringing staff from thier shops for a jolly i would love to protest by the farm gates but not sure i will be loved after

I so hate it when a customer comes in for cello and a card it drives me crazy but I always nicely say aawwh is that i nice token is it from a child.

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Fab

I agree with Fly it's highly suspicious and I'm also concerned that they might be planning their own service

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