Should you be taking your staff’s temperature daily? What does a socially distant design room look like? How do florists — trained to be welcoming...
Valerie Lee Ow looked around J. Miller’s Flowers and Gifts in December and saw so much to celebrate: loyal customers packed into the business, ready...
What do Mother’s Day results tell us about the floral industry’s “new normal”? How will our operations change? And, what will be the impact of...
As retail businesses continue to reopen around the country, make sure your operation is ready to hit the ground running or continues to build on...
Retail florists are learning a new choreography of retail — getting up to speed as restrictions lift and supply chains shift. SAF Now editors and...
Contact-free delivery has always been the domain of florists, the experts in “door dash” before it was an app. This pandemic provides an opportunity...
The role of Mr./Ms. Clean is now everyone’s job — and florists are finding new ways to share the load and promote all that they are doing, to...
Despite a global pandemic, an Ipsos poll conducted this month on behalf of the Society of American Florists found only a slight decrease in the...
Seventy percent of floral industry members responding to a Society of American Florists survey reported an increase in Mother’s Day sales — with...
With another Mother’s Day in the books, it’s time to shift the focus to dear ol’ dad. Based on higher-than-average sales for spring holidays this...
As the owner of a floral business, what can you do, not just to survive the COVID-19 pandemic but to come out on the other side, ready to make a...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture posted a final rule May 14 on biotech regulations that would allow the floral industry to innovate more...
Graduations will look a little different this year with the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. But that means florists have new and different marketing...
Now that Mother’s Day is over, floral industry members are turning their attention to traditional spring/summer milestones that could be...
Days after leading a Society of American Florists webinar on generating media buzz, Jackie Levine found herself giving interview after interview...