To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Let the customer beware
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:11:23 -0600
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."
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Let the customer beware
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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