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["Naomi Counides" <naomi@oznayim.us>]

But people want what they buy in the grocery. They have not tasted, do not
know, do not explore.. 'different' stuff. And Wal-mart sales clerks are not
knowledgeable advisers.  I doubt they could sell the right choices.

That is reality.  
Naomi

"I am a solipsistic conspiracy theorist.  I am sure I am up to something,
and I will not stop until I find out what."  


http://xkcd.com/842/  Jan 3, 2011

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It's the same in Florida.  Wally World, Lowes, Home Depot and many  
others will happily sell you something that hasn't a hope of ever  
bearing fruit or even surviving in Florida.  Very nearly bought a  
couple of Granny Smith apple trees that way some years ago before I  
learned to research this stuff first.

Quoting Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net>:

> Douglas Woodward wrote:  "........................If a customer wanted to
> buy something, they would sell it. I fear that a lot of businesses still
> operate on that principle."
>
>
>     Most of the fruit trees in Wal-Mart's nursery here in Central
Minnesota
> won't survive here.  When I informed an employee about it he said, "They
are
> all ordered in Arkansas and we get what Arkansas gets.  If they don't
grow,
> the customers can get their money back."  What the man failed to say is
that
> alot of people think they may have caused the death of the fruit tree and
> won't ask for a refund.
>




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