How much!?!?!

[Newbie]

Just popped in to Focus DIY for a few bits as we were nearby, don't normally shop there. Whilst i was there i had a stroll round the garden dept (as you do ) & noticed they had veg plants in. A tub of carrot seedlings ..... guess how much?








£5.99!!!!!!!

[jackie j]

Garden centre near here has one potato in a pot for £5.99p rip off

[Newbie]

The otherhalf pointed out that we are in the wrong line of business, could plant my entire seed collection, give them 1000% mark up & flog them outside our garden gate - rich!!

[jacob marley]

They work on the theory that there is all ways somebody with more money than sense...jacob

[Florence Fennel]

It's taking advantage of novice gardeners and is a disgrace.

[bubblewrap]

Just popped in to Focus DIY for a few bits as we were nearby, don't normally shop there. Whilst i was there i had a stroll round the garden dept (as you do ) & noticed they had veg plants in. A tub of carrot seedlings ..... guess how much?
£5.99!!!!!!!

Poorly octopus???

[Bigmallly]

I did quite well at local GC last year. A pot of sweetcorn for £1.99. When I got them home, there was 14 plants in the pot. £5.99 for carrots is a bit steep.

[organic]

Just out of curiosity - roughly how many carrots were in the tub?
This one could potentially work out worse than the £1/carrot scam one of the (i think) budget supermarkets ran a while back.


Florence
I agree completely and wholeheartedly with that statement. It really is disgraceful. Plenty of people try GYO for the first time by buying plugs from a GC, putting them in at home and looking after them. It wouldn't occur to many of them that 1 plug = 1 carrot.

[HotStuff]

Poorly octopus???

Not quite poorly octopus, you do get 1p change

[Newbie]

Just out of curiosity - roughly how many carrots were in the tub?
This one could potentially work out worse than the £1/carrot scam one of the (i think) budget supermarkets ran a while back.

There were more than six seedlings, maybe about a dozen at a guess.

[Jeanied]

Poorly octopus???

It took me quite a while to work out you were talking about sick squid.

[organic]

Ah ok, well - 50p a carrot then... that's OK.

Or not.

I seriously can't believe these con artists have such little regard for their customers and the future of their business.

Rip them off charging 50p a carrot (some of which may fail or produce mangled roots) and they'll shop with you once.
Look after them, give them some good advice rather than preying on their lack of knowledge and they'll come back, and back, and back.

I know for an absolute fact that if I'd been had like that when I started out I'd never spend a single penny there again, would tell everyone I knew not to shop there and if I really got a bee in my bonnet about it I'd get a local rag involved and maybe even hand out flyers on the way in over a bank holiday - really make them regret it.

But then - I'm a vindictive sod like that when someone's being so underhand.