Dying pot plants in Tescos
Last post 27-03-2009 10:23 PM by bogweevil. 6 replies.
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23/03/2009 02:40 PM
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- Rae
- Dorset
- 31 Jul 2007
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Just got back from Tescos and was saddened to see all the Mothers Day plants in pots dying on the shelves. So I asked at the cash desk - they said "oh I will ask they may sell them at a discounted price" ! I said why doesnt one of the staff water them? Row on row of forced to flower early hydrangeas just dying with their once beautiful flower heads drooped to the floor. Very sad. We are a throw away society for sure.
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23/03/2009 03:13 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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I once worked for Tesco (not for long, thank goodness, it nearly drove me crazy) and noticed that the plants had sell-by dates - they were put out but not watered and by the time the sell-by date came round, they'd all dried out and were dying. What a shame, I thought things might have changed by now.
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23/03/2009 04:20 PM
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- Phot's-Moll
- The sunny South coast.
- 06 Jan 2007
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They're not the only shop that does this. Seems it's cheaper to order innew plants than pay someone to care for the ones they have on the shelves.
Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.
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23/03/2009 05:46 PM
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- Rae
- Dorset
- 31 Jul 2007
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Its enough to make you weep - just a bit of watering and they would all be fine - I almost found myself offering to water them myself - just think of the pleasure those plants would bring people who cannot afford to go and buy expensive plants - they would brighten up old peoples homes - its just awful. This society stinks! 
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23/03/2009 08:52 PM
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- geoff51
- Totton, Hampshire
- 13 Feb 2009
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If you have a Morrisons near you try them I have bought some good plants from them in the past, they seem to look after theirs a bit better. By the way I dont work for them!
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24/03/2009 11:12 AM
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- loulou
- glasgow
- 22 Oct 2008
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Must say I agree - a lot of shops do it. I quite often end up buying them just to rescue them, especially if there's just noe left all on its own :) Sad, I know. Last year I bought some Dicentra that were completely on their last legs, glad to say they have survived extremely well and are already looking wonderfully bushy this time. Expecting flowers in the not too distant future :)
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27/03/2009 10:23 PM
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Could this be a marketing ploy? I once knew a family of travelers who had a sort of nursery in the corner of a field behind their caravan and took plants (rather poor ones) to agricultural shows, car boot sales and suchlike. Their best sellers were carrier bags filled with some of the many dying plants on their nursery for something derisory like £2. For that money, customers reasoned, even if just a handful of plants survived they had a bargain. They prospered - the people, not the plants.
Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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