There used to be 2 good florists with in a couple of miles of my house. The neighborhood kind of place where you could get a corsage for prom, a dozen roses, or a birthday arrangement. They are now both gone. All that’s left close by are grocery stores that sell prepackaged bunches of flowers (as opposed to bouquets), and a few higher end places that require appointments and seem to speciallize in weddings and other big events.
So, do you still have local florists near you?
Plenty.
Many are associated with the big national chains, though, but it’s certainly not only supermarkets.
There are a lot around here. In fact… I just realized I’ve lived in four different places since moving to LA… and I’ve never been more than a mile from a flower shop.
Yes. I delivered for them some over the summer. They’re affiliated with Teleflora and the other national services like that, but still the local neighborhood flower shop.
Just chiming in to agree with the other repliers. We have two independent local ones in our little Pennsylvania suburb. They are both hooked up with major national services and have cheerfully “delivered” flowers to friends and relatives across the country.
What gary first said. There’s still some, but they go through the big chains anyway so one typically can’t tell much difference.
I can think of four - no, five - independant florist’s and three regular market stalls within a few minutes’ walk of my place. There’s also the huge Columbia Road Flower Market on a Sunday, but that’s got nothing to do with the other florists. I only know of one national chain of florist’s at all.
There’s at least three within as many blocks of each other in my small Chicago suburb.
I live in Chicago and there are local florists all over the place. I can think of three within 2 blocks of my house
There are florists around here.
Curiously enough, one near me recently broke from a chain and became an independent florist.
There are two in walking distance of my home. One of them has really good prices, even on Valentine’s Day.
Unfortunately the employees at both are extremely unpleasant.
There are two within blocks of where I work, and several more around town. Plus the usual offerings at the grocery store.
There are two in this medium-sized town in the far northwestern suburbs of Chicago. They are both attached to nurseries, so basically it is one-stop shopping whether you need flowers to put in a vase, or in the ground. One also belongs to one of the networks, so when my mother ordered anniversary flowers for my husband and me from a florist in her town in NY, (she didn’t do the internet) the order was filled by that florist here in my city.
Offhand, I can think of three within walking distance.
And, zooming out from my address thrice on Yelp, I see there are 11, not counting the supermarkets and event-planning type places.
Where have all the florists gone,
Long time passing,
Where have all the florists gone,
Long time ago?
Three within a few blocks of me.
I think they all went to seed:D
Rural Iowa, we’ve lost a lot of businesses over the past 20 years but the florists and greenhouses are doing fine. People are always gonna go to proms, get married, and die, and gardening is really popular. I wonder if it could be considered a recession-proof business.
My cousin’s a florist, and she’s my age (26), so, yeah, they’re still around. There’s at least one local place in town that I’m aware of, and I don’t buy flowers.