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This might e why the high street o ering tends to lean towards house lants to a eal to those with less li ing s ace in towns and cities ut there is sco e for other roducts We get so many eo le as ing for outdoor lants so there would e an a eal for a mi of indoor and outdoor or outdoor lants you really need that outdoor e erience and team mem ers who now a out outdoor lants though ou could com ine indoor and outdoor lants on the high street ut you d need ar ing for eo le to collect things thin that s really im ortant or edestrianised streets there might e an o tion for lant stores to sell outdoor lants on their doorste ut there are rules around this says o erts We re definitely not allowed oards on the street f you can t ha e an oard on the street then it must e tric y to ha e stoc out there for street trading and you e ro a ly got to get di erent insurances Complementary or competitor? t egs the uestion though if these stores do sell oth indoor and outdoor lants and the tools to go with these could garden centres ecome o solete Whilst high street stores might e ulling in a new crowd garden centres remain a strong attraction in themsel es lot of garden centres ha e cafes and it ecomes li e a community as well says
osura ou can meet a friend and ha e a wal around the garden centre would lo e to com ine that it would e my hea en ut if you don t ha e ar ing or if your store doesn t o er deli ery or eo le ust don t want to ay deli ery then you re limiting your customers with how much they can ic u so it s di icult on the high street There s a rice di erence too says osura nde endent sho s such as Plant ho anchester order smaller amounts whereas garden centres tend to uy in ul and are a le to charge less as a result The go ernment also seemingly sees a di ide etween these lant stores and garden centres at least with its loc down restrictions There was a time when sho s couldn t e o en ut you could e if you were a garden centre and guess that s ecause they ha e more o en outdoor s ace says o erts few house lant stores were fighting to e allowed o en too ecause they sell lants ut thin my sho is com letely di erent to a garden centre com are more to standard retail li e homeware sho s and we had to find di erent ways to get our roducts to eo le There s a star di erence etween these high street stores and garden centres then with oth ha ing their own art to lay oth ha ing a assion for lants and oth eing a le to cash in on the new wa e of greenfingered consumers
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