North Branch Floral – Under Fire

I just had a customer stop in saying they had tried to send orders through 1-800-Flowers for the delivery to a funeral here in North Branch but was told they no longer service 55056. As you may know, those large corporations such as Teleflora, Avas Flowers, and many of the other websites that come up in your listing when you Google “North Branch Flowers” or “North Branch Floral” – they pay to come up first in the list! – and they charge more than 20% of your cost to their order taking – then send it to me to fill. These orders are my second customer, and believe me – they DO NOT GET priority over my direct customers. The florist does not make money on these orders. They are the reason many of our local flower shops and local distributors (JW Perry) can’t compete on a national basis. We depend on the local economy. They don’t. They undercut us and force us to honor orders at cost – and sometimes less than our cost of doing business.

How do we survive in the midst of these floral conglomerates? Well, we can’t really join them or we go out of business too. The simple solution is for you to scroll down to our website: NorthBranchFloral.com – and either place your order through our website, or call our 7x24x365 floral hotline. We can take those orders direct, and you get your full monies worth, without paying the conglomerates for their order-taking. Support your local florist. Call her direct.

Thanks for changing your behavior! LOL!