Re: Garden.com

I hear that many Midwestern growers are in a bind this year with rising fuel 
prices this winter  and contracts signed last spring  with the chain stores 
and pegged to Spring 2000  wholesale prices.

The local HD will never be any competition as long as they do not take care 
of the plants.
Flats are jammed under shelves, on carts, etc. Lowe seems to do a better job.

These people attract people only because of price, and people get what they 
pay for.

Many of the oldline retailers who have gone to the internet will survive, 
because they have the expertise. A lot of the dot com companies floundered 
because they felt that  selling on the internet would automatically be 
successful and many lacked a personal touch. A lot of these companies 
squandered the venture capital on glitzy promotions. I read somewhere that a 
majority of the dot com companies who advertised   last year during the 
coverage of the Super Bowl last year are just history and no longer exist.


Al Krismer
Cincinnati

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