Flower shops plan deliveries carefully as gas prices surge
By Peyton Headlee
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SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — Gas prices are climbing across Northern California due to the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and the increases are affecting businesses that rely on fuel, including floral shops preparing for Mother’s Day deliveries.
Flower shops across the region are gearing up for one of their busiest weekends of the year.
Jim Relles, owner of Relles Florist in Midtown Sacramento, said they are handling ten times their usual volume of flowers for Mother’s Day.
“We’re trying to group the orders together, so we’re not making a lot of trips to one area,” Relles said. “We can’t raise our prices so high to really balance what it’s costing us. It’s too much for the consumer. So, we’re hoping to get as much business as we can and hope that’ll balance off the higher prices.”
Botanic Flower Shop in Sacramento is also absorbing the increased costs to keep their delivery prices the same, even as some farms they source flowers from have added delivery fees.
“It’s a little one, but it’s nothing to where it’s really impacting our prices in the store, which is great,” Elise Waelder, a florist at Botanic Flower Shop, said. “Flowers can already kind of be expensive. And so, we really try to keep that in mind. And we want everyone to be able to come in and get flowers.”
She said they are being a little stricter on where they will deliver to, but that they always offer pickup as well.
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