As a follow up to this thread.

I was at WalMart (again looking at their plants because the truck was still
in the parking lot!) and overheard 2 clerks in the garden dept. I had asked
the price on some of the Bonnie vegetable plants and the one clerk was
showing me the hand printed price list. The other clerk came up to her and
said she had been asking Bonnie for printed price lists and they never
brought them. Well the other clerk said "Yeah, well, they don't seem to
care about anything except watering. And we just don't have time."

So, it appears the suppliers are getting tired of having to write off for
bad care.

Judy

"JWB" wrote in message
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"Timothy" wrote in message

Judy I tend to have to agree with you. Wal-Mart is a sad, sad place.
Besides their plant abuse, they have help to destroy the small
businesses
that used to supply these same goods. I'm finding it much harder to hand
over my money to these mega box stores who seem to care less about their
customer service with each passing day. I implore you or any other
reader
of this, to support your local businesses. The 10 or 20 percent more you
might spend at a local business will support your local economy, not to
mention the customer support that you'll recieve.

I agree, but my "local businesses" have to stay open later than 6pm to get
my business. I'm stunned at the amount of local businesses that close shop
at 5:30 or so and then whine that Walmart and Home Depot kill them. Well,
duh...

That said, I don't buy plants at Walmart - it's just too sad to look at.

JWB