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Petals & Blooms Flowers - Clearwater, FL florist

"Fight the Power!!"

Written by Petals & Blooms Flowers

Thank you to the many customers who have ordered with us over the past seven years. We appreciate that you are savvy enough to figure out that you can call any local floral shop in any zip code in America (by doing an online search) and actually speak with a staff member, at that local business. This is important because doing this bypasses the middleman, THE WIRE SERVICE COMPANIES. I have been expressing my disdain for the wire service companies for years, and I believe other local florists would agree, the wire services are NOT FLORISTS at all, they are order gathers, that farm out the orders to florists in their networks and absorb upwards to 50% of the profits. They're business model hurts truly local, independent florists and hurts the paying customer as well. When ordering through a wire service, if you pay say, $100 for flowers, you will most likely not receive that $100 worth of flowers ordered. Why, because the greedy wire service companies deduct upwards to say, 50% of that money for themselves and the florist gets say 50%, but now the florist is expected to fill a $100 order, for half the cost? That's ridiculous, only a fool would agree to terms like that. 

Fighting the Power of the wire service companies is a battle that can be won by consumers. Here's how floral family.
step 1: open a search engine of your choice
step 2: enter the delivery zip code/city/name of local florist if you know it
step 3: scroll through the online list of numerous florists in the area (zip code) read local reviews, verify their local number and local address
step 4: you can call the local florist to confirm they are in fact a local, small business
step 5: place your order with them, or via directly through their website platform, Example: (Bloomnation is my Platform)

I believe if enough consumers took a few minutes to think about those steps, prior to purchasing an order through a wire service, a day will come sooner, rather than later when the "CORPORATE MACHINE" will be Dust In The Wind.