Talked to my TF rep today about Wesley Berry issues and in a passing moment of candor she mentioned a program TF is doing to entice the "bigger shops" to accept their orders, apparently they will be giving free containers if they agree to accept all headquarter orders. My first question was why aren't all shops included? the small shops are the ones that need the help and with free containers we might actually be able to fill the orders as pictured, then I asked, what is wrong with this picture,you have to bribe florists to accept your undervalued orders, shouldn't that tell you how crappy your photo shopped arrangements really are. I told her that I was tired of TF stealing our local customers,and marketers controlling the designs.She said that TF is concerned about small shops and is trying to make sure that we get our share of orders. Had to ask, what is the difference between TF taking the profit out and any other OG doing it,. an unprofitable order is still unprofitable no matter who sends it . Her response? I can't really argue with you about this. Really. Then we went on to the VD super bowl ad, I asked if they really wanted to help us why did they only promote one of their containers instead of a generic arrangement and why the ad sent everyone to TF.com instead of a local TF shop. Again the answer , I can't argue with that either. We went on ( this was a rather long conversation), I asked about why if they are so concerned about us, TF took huge delivery charges from consumers and did not send any to the florists actually delivering, same answer, there is a pattern forming here. Long story short , Maybe all TF members should call and ask for their free containers, they are making more than enough money from the service charges to pay for it.
PS 20minutes later she called me back and said she was mistaken that they really weren't giving the containers away, Hmmm, I wonder
PS 20minutes later she called me back and said she was mistaken that they really weren't giving the containers away, Hmmm, I wonder
