Re: Garden.com

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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:13:27 EST Meum71@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 01/19/2001 8:01:17 PM Central Standard Time,
> deanslgr@juno.com writes:
>
> << vendors and suppliers who had
>  been given big promises and little payment.  Hopefully some of
> that
>  Burpee/Wal-Mart money will go to all those people. >>
>
>
> I do not know about Burpee-but operations like Wal-Mart are killing
> the bedding plant business for growers.

 

 

To reiterate, I was referring specifically to those growers and other vendors who had been supplying Garden.com with plants and materials and who Garden.com was not paying promptly for those services, promising "investment in the future."  Now there is no future, those growers and other suppliers are left with nothing, and the Garden.com folk who made the hollow promises walk off with a chunk of money from the sale to Burpee and Wal-Mart.

 

Dean Sliger

Warren, Michigan, USA

Zone 6B