From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Customer Service Run-Around

October 19, 2007

This month, Ron Burley of the AARP Magazine showed readers how to fight ‘company policy’ at 1-800-Flowers and get their money back for faulty products and services.  The AARP member’s flower gift had arrived two days after Mother’s Day and was dead on delivery, ”crushed and brown,” and the company has refused to refund the cost or replace the whithered blooms. Burley [...]

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BloomNet Numbers

October 12, 2007

The discussion about the decrease in florist wire service membership made a few of us ask why and how the latest BloomNet directory only shows 6,978 members yet a 1800flower.com press release from May 2007 pegged the number at “more than 9,500 BloomNet Professional Florists.” We asked more than one source to check the figures [...]

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Shifting Florist Wire Service Numbers

October 11, 2007

According to recent florist wire service directory updates, there’s a significant shift in the numbers of member flower shop affiliates in North American. The latest figures, which include both the US and Canada, as of the Oct. 1, 2007 electronic directory releases: FTD 13,876 records including 313 new and 1151 deleted for a net change [...]

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