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Arnold, Carl J. - The Chattanoogan

Chattanooga and his loving caregivers, Peggy Fowler; Mildred Brooks; T.J. Fowler; Wanda King; Cember Alexander; Sherry Glover FNP-BC; and also the caregivers and staff at Creekside and Hickory Valley. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to First Centenary United Methodist Church, 419 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37402 or to Hospice of Chattanooga, 4411 Oakwood Drive, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37416. Arrangements are under the care of Chattanooga Funeral Home Crematory and Florist East Chapel, 404 South Moore Rd. East Ridge, TN 37412. Please share your thoughts and memories at www.ChattanoogaEastChapel.com ... https://www.chattanoogan.com/2019/11/14/399569/Arnold-Carl-J..aspx

Police seek to ID person of interest in Jackson florist burglary - WBBJ-TV

May 31, 2019 JACKSON, Tenn. — Police are investigating a break-in at a local florist.Surveillance video shows an unidentified male break into Sands Florist, located at 18 Old Hickory Cove, on May 18, according to a release from the Jackson Police Department.The person of interest broke the front window to get into the building and then left with an undetermined amount of cash and property.Police say the same person also broke into other businesses in the area.Anyone who can identify the person of interest is urged to call Jackson police at 731-425-8400 or Crime Stoppers at 731-424-TIPS (8477). ... https://www.wbbjtv.com/2019/05/31/police-seek-to-id-person-of-interest-in-jackson-florist-burglary/

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

Florists reopen ahead of Mother’s Day, planting seed for non-essential businesses’ comeback - Boston Herald

Business is finally blooming for florists.Gov. Charlie Baker’s newly loosened restrictions on some small businesses arrives just in time for Mother’s Day.“We’ve had customers looking for flowers in general the entire time we were closed,” said Central Square Florist manager Jackie Levine who can now open up her Cambridge store. “We kept watching and hoping something would change.Change came Monday afternoon, when the Baker administration quietly updated its essential services guidance to allow a limited number of employees of florist shops and other businesses to reenter closed stores and warehouses to fulfill and ship orders taken over the phone and online.[embedded content]“It really is just an unbelievable feeling after so much negativity,” Levine said.Handling enormous demand for contactless deliveries for Mother’s Day, flower shop owners could lay the foundation for other non-essential businesses to come back from weeks of lockdown.Florists said calls, emails and online orders for bouquets flooded in immediately. https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/05/florists-reopen-ahead-of-mothers-day-planting-seed-for-non-essential-businesses-comeback/

Flower shops spring back to life ahead of Mother’s Day after state lifts restrictions - The Boston Globe

Florist Tiffany Day shopped for flowers for her shop Petals By The Day in Westwood at the New England Exchange in Chelsea on Thursday.David L. Ryan/Globe StaffPat Riccardi spent his teens walking the streets of Somerville in the 1970s, peddling bouquets to make an extra buck as a high school and college student. But it took his father asking him to help out during the Valentine’s Day grind of 1980 to fully ensnare him in the family flower business. Forty years later, he and his brother own it.Yet the coronavirus brought Riccardi Wholesale Flowers to its knees when customers called en masse to cancel wedding and Easter orders. The busiest time of the year withered away.“All the orders that were supposed to go out from March 23rd onward, which would have been church and wedding work, just sat in our refrigerator for us to eat. If we couldn’t donate it, we threw it away,” said Riccardi, pained just thinking about the discarded blooms.AdvertisementBut a tired proverb proved true: April sho... https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/07/nation/after-months-empty-shelves-closed-shops-florists-spring-back-life-ahead-mothers-day-surge/

Florists experience downturn in business due to coronavirus, missing key dates - KCRG

Around this time of year florists typically have a boom in business with weddings, prom, and Mother's Day, but the continued spread of the novel coronavirus has put a dent in their business.Butt's Florist in Dubuque is a local shop and they say business is definitely down compared to usual. Even with curbside pickup and contactless deliveries there just aren't as many events that need flowers right now. Bryan Fitting, owner of Butt's, said Mother's Day was pretty good considering the circumstances."Our business is down. You know we're hoping for a good Mother's Day. The numbers aren't all in but I think it was a good Mother's Day, not record-setting but it wasn't a flop either," Fitting said. "So that was a good positive to have this past week. We're hoping as things improve our business will continue to improve."Fitting says they feel fortunate that the business has been able to be open for the majority of the lockdown. https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Local-florists-experience-downtick-in-business-570423001.html

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

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