Do you know, I really take fucking exception to this. Our company does its level best to keep prices as low as possible while still paying central London rent, business rates and energy bills plus wages, petrol, congestion and ULEZ charges, packaging, banking and recycling companies ( we segregate our mulchable waste from cardboard and plastics and the mulchable waste is turned back into compost which we then endeavour to buy back from the company when we need it.)
We are on our knees with the price increases since Brexit, no-one in the company has had a pay rise in over three years and a large proportion are on not much than minimum wage.
We are told repeatedly that our prices are too high, because people are so used to buying artificially surpressed priced flowers from supermarkets, supermarkets, it should be noted, who own their own farms in Africa and South America and who exploit the native resources and labour in those countries for pennies.
Independent British florists who buy from Europe are supporting their much higher labour charges, safety practices and laws ( and rightly so, although that's all gone to shit since Brexit.) The economy of scale doesn't work as a small florist, you have less storage, you can't buy as much, your prices are higher.
The last time there was an outpouring of grief for Sarah Everard ( we are near to Clapham) we were actively giving people discounts who were taking flowers to lay as a tribute, as we felt that profiteering from such a dreadful event felt wrong.
We will be doing the same this week - yes we will turn a profit, but a reduced one and frankly we aren't rubbing our hands together in glee at the thought of it.
This attitude really fucks me off and I usually have a lot of respect for @Sparklingbrook 's posts.