TIL wholesale flower markets in Philly sell to the public after 10am on Saturdays

I always assumed you needed a business license to buy there until a grower told me they just want to move their stock before it wilts, so now I'm grabbing $25 buckets of peonies instead of paying $6 a stem at the grocery store.

3 comments

3 Comments

the_henry2mo ago

Right, because paying $6 for a single flower that dies in three days feels like a real winning investment. Love that the flower market's business model is basically "panic sale before everything turns into compost." $25 for peonies sounds like the biggest rip-off of the grocery store's entire existence, honestly. Guess I'll just show up Saturday with a wad of cash and zero shame about not owning a commercial greenhouse.

cameroncarr2mo ago

You say "panic sale before everything turns into compost" like that's some shady business tactic, but isn't that literally how all fresh produce works? I mean, a head of lettuce goes bad just as fast if you don't eat it, and nobody calls that a rip-off. So what's the actual difference between paying $6 for a flower that lasts three days versus paying $3 for a bag of salad that lasts the same amount of time? Is it really about the money, or is it just that you feel dumb for buying something pretty instead of something you can eat?

sean_walker4524d ago

Man, I was just thinking about this at the grocery store the other day. The whole "price vs. value" thing runs way deeper than flowers. My buddy drops $60 on a video game, plays it for two days, and never touches it again. That's $30 a day, and nobody calls him a sucker. Meanwhile, my neighbor buys a $5 plant that lasts her six months and she talks about that thing like it's a family heirloom. The real joke is how we'll drop $15 on a movie ticket for two hours of entertainment but lose our minds over a $6 bouquet that sits on our counter making us smile every time we walk by. It's like we've all got this weird internal calculator that decides what's "worth it" and it has nothing to do with actual value.