Hi, My name is Penny Bradford and I own a retail florist business in partnership with my 2 grown children,we have a main shop and 1 branch shop. We have been in business 58 years with a 3 generation currently running the everyday operation. We also have a small wholesale division servicing areas around us that have no access to floral product after thursday nite until monday morning. We have 18 employees full and part time. I am very active in Chesapeak Floral assoc, a director of Southern Retail Florist Assoc. AAF member in SAF and in local community activities. Semi-retired I go in the shop almost daily and am very much in touch with what is going on there.