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Floral bar at this new Gainesville shop offers fresh choices - Gainesville Times

I absolutely loved it,” Bright said. “It’s really important to learn from different people who have worked in the industry.”Bagley said the name of the business was inspired by their mission of purchasing flowers fresh from local farmers.“Across the bar, our goal was to do something trendy, different and fresh,” she said.Both sisters hold degrees in marketing and grew up in their family’s former business, Johnny’s Pizza.Even though the two have worked together, Bagley said they both have started to see each other in a different light.“Working with my sister has been fun and also challenging,” she said. “I have so much more respect for her now, and she has more respect for me. We’re co-workers and friends, not just sisters.”If Bagley could convey one message to the community of Hall County about her floral business, she would tell people that it’s “OK to take flowers for themselves.”“So many people get them on a special occasion or for a specific reason, but you don’t need to have a reason,” she said. “You deserve them.”The Fresh Bloom is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to noon S... https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/life/floral-bar-new-gainesville-shop-offers-fresh-choices/

Bride and florist donate flowers after postponing wedding over coronavirus - GMA

Bride and florist team up to donate flowers after postponing wedding due to coronavirus concerns GMAYour browser does not have Javascript enabled and this site requires Javascript. Please enable Javascript in order to browse. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/bride-florist-team-donate-flowers-postponing-wedding-due-69695530

Mid-Hudson region kicks off Phase 1 of reopening as business owners adjust to new normal - WPIX 11 New York

Latimer.In Phase 2, retailers like Carriage House Flowers in White Plains will open at full service.Florist John DiPilato has kept his 36-year-old shop open during the pandemic to arrange flowers for funerals.Now, he has the go ahead for non-essential curbside pickups. “I’ll take any orders I can take,” said DiPilato.Leaders throughout the region say PPE will be provided to everyone who's returning to work.Plus, employers are responsible for making sure people are social distancing, and if anyone has virus symptoms, they must stay home. https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/mid-hudson-region-kicks-off-phase-1-of-reopening-as-business-owners-adjust-to-new-normal

Online sales coming up roses for local flower shops - CBC.ca

Elizabeth Young says business is blooming at her Richmond Road shop, Flowers Talk Tivoli. (Frances Ferland/CBC) Young said the pandemic has resulted in an unexpected boom for many local florists, as people who can't visit loved ones in person are sending a bouquet instead.  "I feel like we're a lifeline for people," Young said. Online sales picking up the slack At the family-owned Beaudry Flowers at Ottawa's Trainyards, they've also had to adapt their business to the times, offering a drive-thru flower stand and bringing in a tractor-trailer to store orders. As they rush to fill orders, Marlon Oneid said the shop has taken great pains to make sure employees keep a safe distance from one another. Longstanding contracts with local funeral homes have helped anchor the 30-year-old business, but online sales have been booming since the pandemic struck. "Our online business has grown by 1,000 per cent," Oneid said. "Our online sales are picking up the slack for retail pickup, so we're going to have the same level of work." At Wild Willy's Plants & Flowers in Wellington Village,  owner Vanessa Bishop is working overtime to fill orders. Bishop was also forced to lay off most of her staff when the store closed, but loyal customers have kept the shop afloat with orders for curbside pickup. She and her partner work to fill those orders during the day while another employee takes over the night shift. Vanessa Bishop says even with her loyal customers and curbside pickup, Mother's Day sales at Wild Willy's Plants & Flowers are down about 30 per cent this year. (Frances Ferland/CBC) Despite their hard work, Bishop expects sales to dip by at least 30 per cent this Mother's Day compared to last, largely due to the loss of those all-important last-minute shoppers. "I'll usually have at least 100 walk-ins, which I'm not going to have this year," she said.  Now that garden centres have been allo... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/florists-mother-s-day-pandemic-ottawa-1.5557886

Royal Oak florist leaves surprise flowers with notes of hope - FOX 2 Detroit

ROYAK OAK, Mich. (FOX 2) - "I'm a third generation florist, my great grandmother owned Elma Boyd flower shop in Detroit, both my mom and dad were florists," said Jody Costello.So it wasn't surprising when seven years ago Jody Costello opened J. Costello Designs in Royal Oak. Royal Oak florist leaves bundles of free flowers with notes of hope Jody Costello is doing her part to provide a little brightness in these challenging times. "I started this year with an absolute bang in January with the biggest wedding I've ever done," she said.But by the time March rolled around it was a different story. Not surprisingly everyone cancelled their events when the coronavirus made its way to the US.This florist quickly realized it was time to switch gears. "I started making bouquets and arrangements, selling plants online," she said. "People were more than hungry for flowers. They had been in their homes, they wanted something beautiful to look at all day. The response was super overwhelming." Advertisement But Jody wanted to do more"I had s... https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/royal-oak-florist-leaves-surprise-flowers-with-notes-of-hope

Local florists find ways to adapt, overcome as pandemic stretches busiest season - The Independent

Peg opened the business in 1979.And right now, she really misses that second family.For the past two months, Shea and florists like her have had to transform their way of thinking as, much like every part of the hospitality industry in Southern Rhode Island, the coronavirus pandemic has closed all floral shops to in-person sales.It might not seem like a major barrier to customer service in 2020 but with most of Shea’s clients coming through her doors as unplanned walk-ins — and with big floral events all canceled for the foreseeable future — it’s a disruption that will likely have a wide and long-lasting impact on the floral business, particularly in tourist-heavy South County.“It’s definitely changed the dynamic of our industry,” Shea said this week. “Never have I seen it like this. Ever. But it’s making us be more creative. We have to learn to be more descriptive when we speak to our customers over the phone. We’ve had to learn how to speak colors, speak vibrant colors instead of just saying something like ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got orange and yellow.’ It’s helping us to learn how to communicate better.”She is not alone.Ten miles south from Bert & Peg’s Tower Hill Road location in North Kingstown, Joy Rich works in her office at Flowerthyme in Wakefield fielding the same types of phone calls on a daily basis and doing her best to stay positive as she guides older customers through her freshly-updated website for online ordering and curbside pickup.But finding the silver lining is all in a day’s work for Rich, who says while things are tough now, they were a lot more difficult at the start of the pandemic. She points to the early days of shutdowns as the hardest as many of the region’s top suppliers – like Fall River Florist, Bay State Florist Supply Inc., RJ Ca... https://www.independentri.com/arts_and_living/article_83d8d81a-9007-11ea-9059-d38083c995f3.html

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