Tag Archives for box stores
The day your supplier sells direct to the customer
The day the vendor you have bought from for so many years starts selling direct to the public, what will you do? Don’t think it will happen? Remember all those wholesale nurseries that promised to only sell to Independent Garden … Continue reading
A bit of a stretch
Over at Southern Living Steve Bender known as “The Grumpy Gardener” has written an article titled, “Who wants to kill the birds?” It’s about the recent fines Scotts Miracle-Gro received for selling poisoned bird seed. In the article Steve say’s, “Grumpy loves … Continue reading
You cannot control the message
My last post concerning Scotts/Miracle-Gro’s trademarking a phrase thought up by someone else brought us this comment from Robert Woodman, of The British Gardener. “I was in ‘shock and ore’ to read what Scotts has done with trade-marking ‘you can … Continue reading
You can’t grow that!
Here is a story that shows just how quickly the horticultural industry in diverging into two different types of business. On the one hand we have smaller, independent garden professionals and on the other hand we have the larger concerns … Continue reading
Success by thinking small
Finding businesses and people who have become successful by thinking and staying small is a pleasure of mine. “Small is cool” is about people and business who have found success by traveling a different path. The competition in the nursery … Continue reading
The cost of cheap, Panama Pottery closes after 99 years
Panama Pottery has been operating out of Sacramento for the last 99 years but is now closing. As one of the last pottery makers in the area the current owners cited State regulations and the box stores for their demise. … Continue reading
Does anyone care?
There is a guest post at Garden Rant by James Roush titled, “Japanese Beetles for Sale? Really?” James relates a story about his day at “a large regional nursery about 60 miles east of Manhattan, Kansas.” He says, “This nursery sells … Continue reading
Sunset magazine, now a box store brand.
Sunset magazine seems intent on dragging itself into the box, and chain stores. According to SFGate, “Sunset introduced a line of branded plants designed to thrive and shine in virtually every California garden. The introduction was timed to coincide with … Continue reading
Saying one thing, doing another.
An interesting moment on Twitter today when a garden media personality got excited about seeing a certain plant brand in their local Lowe’s, and decided to Tweet their excitement. A couple of independent garden centers decided to Tweet their displeasure … Continue reading
Garden Centres Having Trouble in Britain?
Those of us in the garden center trades have been told for years that we needed to look to Great Britain for the future of garden retail. We we’re told that the British, with their love of all things gardening … Continue reading
