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Honestly this post being my only one with notes is funny. I could talk about my job all day long. Working in the floral industry is interesting to say the least.

In light of everything happening in California and people talking about the Resnicks and all the water they own, I feel like now is a good time to talk about how they own Teleflora too.

If you don't know anything about Teleflora, it's an awful, parasitic company. As someone who has worked in floristry for around 4 years, I can confidently say that florists hate them.

I will be posting more on the subject later

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So first I gotta talk about how teleflora works.

Teleflora, ftd, bloomnet, and others are what we call a wire service or "order-gatherer." They often have smaller order gathering companies too but those can be hard to spot. They have no brick and mortar stores.

How do they sell flowers then?

They send them to actual florists within their network. Teleflora happens to be the largest and most well-known. Teleflora also does marketing and website management for florists in their network. That's why a lot of florists have similar looking websites.

For example, if you order, say, a dozen roses. At my shop, a dozen roses arranged is normally $100. That's no baby's breath. Roses average $5 bucks each, 12 is $60. Well labor is 30% so there's $30. That takes us to $90. Add in the $8 vase and you have two dollars left for greenery.

"Just don't add greenery" you say.

WRONG

Greenery is often times integral to the structure of a bouquet. (There are arrangements without them, but there are specific techniques you have to do)

For all intents and purposes, we need greenery.

This breakdown doesn't even include taxes and delivery.

My point is, flowers aren't as cheap as you (and teleflora) think they should be.

Now I've just checked the website, and a dozen roses with no bb (baby's breath) is $65!!!

Teleflora then takes out a service fee, and sends it (called a wire-in) to a brick and mortar shop.

I've worked at a few different shops that use teleflora. Some of them know to reprice and not accept teleflora's lowball price. Others, however, don't actually take the time to price out their own flowers. So they might be buying flowers for $2.5, and selling them for $2.

I feel like shops that fall into that are the ones that are really hands-off with pricing and web development. They're also hemorrhaging money and closing left and right.

Next, I'll talk about how Teleflora harasses their stores to accept these cheap arrangements.

In light of everything happening in California and people talking about the Resnicks and all the water they own, I feel like now is a good time to talk about how they own Teleflora too.

If you don't know anything about Teleflora, it's an awful, parasitic company. As someone who has worked in floristry for around 4 years, I can confidently say that florists hate them.

I will be posting more on the subject later

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In light of everything happening in California and people talking about the Resnicks and all the water they own, I feel like now is a good time to talk about how they own Teleflora too.

If you don't know anything about Teleflora, it's an awful, parasitic company. As someone who has worked in floristry for around 4 years, I can confidently say that florists hate them.

I will be posting more on the subject later

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Im really sick of cleaning up my boss's husband's piss

I wish she'd just potty train him already

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Wow i just found two new articles with headers that fucking completely misrepresent that wat Michael Moore's recent open letter said:

what the fuck man, are you expecting people not to actually read the rest of the article?

do you think people aren't going to read this part?

fuck off with that, the man is 100% cool with Luigi

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you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

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Spotted at a pizza joint in Luigi Mangione’s hometown.