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  • Tariffs could take the bloom off Mother’s Day flowers

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    Mother’s Day is busy season for American florists. But this year, there’s an added source of stress: President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which are raising the prices of some flowers and causing some wary shoppers to pull back on spending. “We have to charge more, and it’s definitely affecting sales — which I totally get,” Allison Krivachek of Hydrangea Bloom in Tiffin, Iowa, told CNN. “People just don’t have the disposable income they used to.” Eighty percent of all cut flowers sold in the United States are imported from Colombia, Canada or Ecuador, according to the US Department of ... (full story)

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Expo33
May 10, 2025 6:24pm — Edited
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No problem where I live. Every street corner has a van and an illegal selling flowers and other Mother's Day's gifts for half the price.

Perfect business model. No license, no commercial leasing costs, no taxes, NO PROBLEMO!! Well, unless you're a hard working citizen trying to run a local florist.

But yeah, we get it Communist News Network. Orange man bad.
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