How do they get away with it?
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:02 pm
Over the weekend I nipped to the local garden centre for a few bits and bobs. This is the sort of place more interested in selling you a nice set of garden furniture for £2,000 rather than a bag of compost. (Though I did pick up 3 bags of compost on £5 special so it cant be all bad.)
One of the things on my list was a few dozen 6” pots, thinking they would be a few pence each……NOT. £0.89 each for Stewart pots!!!!! No thank you.
Drove a few miles to another place, more plant orientated here and they do have good selection of most things, still wanted £0.59 for exactly the same item. Still too much for my liking.
On the way home passed a true nursery, popped in for a mooch around and did buy a very nice Daphne tangutica. Spied a pile of pots and asked if they would sell any, positive response and saw about 15 of the right sort of size and they gave me them for 5p a pot…bargin.
Still needed some more so 10 mins on like secured me 2litre pots for just over £0.17 each delivered.
How the garden centres get away with it beats me!!!
Jerry
One of the things on my list was a few dozen 6” pots, thinking they would be a few pence each……NOT. £0.89 each for Stewart pots!!!!! No thank you.
Drove a few miles to another place, more plant orientated here and they do have good selection of most things, still wanted £0.59 for exactly the same item. Still too much for my liking.
On the way home passed a true nursery, popped in for a mooch around and did buy a very nice Daphne tangutica. Spied a pile of pots and asked if they would sell any, positive response and saw about 15 of the right sort of size and they gave me them for 5p a pot…bargin.
Still needed some more so 10 mins on like secured me 2litre pots for just over £0.17 each delivered.
How the garden centres get away with it beats me!!!
Jerry
