Re: new hosta at Walmart
- Subject: Re: new hosta at Walmart
- From: D* T*
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:07:21 -0000
(This is very humorous, Andrew!)
>From: "Ransom Lydell" <ranbl@netsync.net>
>Reply-To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
>To: <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
>Subject: Re: new hosta at Walmart
>Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 07:54:08 -0400
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Lietzow
> To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: new hosta at Walmart
> It is pretty much true, that every hosta sold by W Mart, is one less
>thet can be sold by a ligetimate nursery. When contacted by them, To
>provide some local storesI told them NO ! The new hostas that everyone
>loves to see, will simply stop being researched and introduced for lack of
>intrest and funding, if Wal Mart makes too many inroads into the market.
>The good news (here) is, they carry about five of the old varieties. One
>of those is mislabled!
>
> Thanks
> Ran
>
>
> IMO, Walmart is no friend to the Hosta industry. They price cut and
>then
> make it up on selling candy and clothes. I don't have any clothes or
>candy
> to sell so I wish they would just go back to killing annuals and leave
>the
> killing of the perennials to the professional nursery people. <g> We
>were
> doing fine killing off the perennials all on our own without help from
>these
> mass merchandisers.
>
>
> Hosta la Vista!
>
> Andrew Lietzow
> #1 Plantsman at http://HostaHaven.com
> 1250 41st Street
> Des Moines, IA 50311-2516
>
>
>
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