Re: new hosta at Walmart
- Subject: Re: new hosta at Walmart
- From: B* N*
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 22:30:58 -0400
Hey y'all, please excuse me, but I ain't exactly been following this
Walmart discussion/thread very much, since the City of Guelph is blocking
Walmart from coming to this town <<funny? ..but true!>> HOW IS IT FUNNY?
..cuz all Walmart needs to do is apply to the Ontario Business Planning
Board <<the next higher Gov't?> and this Power that be, will over-rule the
City Council's DICTATORIAL decision, on the basis it's not good for
business, competition and free enterprise <<sumpin like dat?>>
ANYWAY
..I wanted to say one thing; and I truly hope, I am wrong on
these thoughts: (dunno???) but...
-- the Big Boys, who got into hosta production within the last ten years
ARE DUMPING THEIR PRODUCTS RIGHT NOW!!!!
Hostas like Great Expectations, Patriot & June (and a slew of popular
others; including Wide Brim! <mentioned by Tim?>) are being offered to
retail Nurseries in Ontario for $2.50 each right now, in a half price sale.
These are growing in gallon pots, they are mature hostas and are coming out
of greenhouses, so they are a lot bigger than those you or I can produce in
our outdoor gardens.
All I have to say is: I need to do some serious thinking about competing
with wholesale hosta producers on my amateur hobby level; and supplying
Nurseries with same, because it is definitely getting to be TOO MUCH
COMPETITION FOR ME! The products they are selling for $2.50 Canadian Funds
(and BTW ..the American Dollar is worth $1.55 to buy up here?) did cost me
$7.50 Cdn <-> to aquire three years ago, when I first got them from an
American TC lab.
It seems to me, that everybody I talked to in the past, was wishing &
hoping for FREE TRADE on-a-worldwide basis "the universal shopping centre"
motto <-> well my dear hosta-dude & dudette-growers, I believe IT IS HERE
ALREADY!!! ..and HOSTA-trading, going on right now, is but one small
example of the universal shopping centre; and it's manifestation, in a
free-trading Society?
Here is the Moral & Point to my whole story: WHEN THE BIG'BOYS IN CHINA
START DUMPING THEIR PRODUCTS? ..nobody can compete with them! <true or
false?>
and simply
\me thinking out loud?
:-B))
aka Bill Nash\canada
At 11:06 PM 06/03/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>I recently bought a brilliantly streaked Wide Brim at one of our UK Walmart
>type stores. I reckon they are good for TC sports if nothing else.
>Tim
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob" <bobaxe@sbtek.net>
>To: <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
>Sent: 03 June 2001 22:14
>Subject: Re: new hosta at Walmart
>
>
> > Bob wrote:
> > I usually figure this out well before I go
> > > somewhere to purchase something.
> >
> > Now I am answering my own posts. I mean I usually figure out what I need
> > and why I need it before I go to purchase it. Also how to manage it when
> > I get it home.
> > > Bye
> > > Bob Bob Axmear 208 2nd St Ne Waukon, Ia 52172
> > > Hostasonline http://hostasonline.com/
> > > Gardensights Websites http://gardensights.com/
> > > Hosta Library http://hostalibrary.org/
> >
> > --
> > Bye
> > Bob Bob Axmear 208 2nd St Ne Waukon, Ia 52172
> > Hostasonline http://hostasonline.com/
> > Gardensights Websites http://gardensights.com/
> > Hosta Library http://hostalibrary.org/
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