A Public Service Announcement regarding Funeral Flowers: You DO NOT HAVE TO BUY your family flowers from the funeral home! Corporate Owned Funeral Homes will strongly suggest that they can take care of ordering your casket spray and other flowers and include it in the bill. When corporate owned funeral homes arrange for flowers for the casket etc. they take anywhere from a 25% - 30% cut either off the top of the price you paid or there are less flowers than what you actually paid for. Their preferred florists are those that fill these orders for the funeral home feel that they are caught in a trap. Since cremation has become a more popular, less expensive alternative, funeral homes have had to find another source to maintain and increase their profit margins. (Ex. a 300.00 casket spray = approx. 90.00 that the funeral homes have kept for themselves.) Secondly, do not purchase sympathy flowers on the Funeral homes web sites or links on the obituary page. Prices to order through these affiliates are more than double what you would pay at your local florist. The funeral homes are again getting kick backs with these orders being placed online. Not only can your local florist tell you what is REALLY available at the time of the services (besides a funeral director promising you that it will look just like the picture in the book), but your floral designer can create something specific and special for your loved one. Fullers Floral does NOT and refuses to participate in this practice.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:23:34 +0000
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