{"id":203,"date":"2007-07-15T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T23:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=203"},"modified":"2007-07-15T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T23:51:01","slug":"gardeners-shunning-big-box-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Gardeners shunning big-box stores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.walmartmovie.com\/\"><img SRC=\"images\/WalMart.jpg\" ALT=\"walmart art\" ALIGN=\"right\" \/><\/a>Cleaning up some old email today, I ran across a teaser news release from the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gardenwriters.org\/Par\/GWAF\/about.html\">Garden Writers Association Foundation<\/a> (GWAF) announcing the release of their 2007 Summer Gardening Trends Research Report.  I see these from time to time and find some of their questions of the &#8216;duh&#8217; variety or just not of interest.  But this one caught my eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In early spring, the GWAF asked consumers where they planned to buy most of their spring plants. In a surprising response, <strong>more households indicated they planned to shop at garden centers and local stores (47%) as compared to DIY and mass merchants (44%)<\/strong>.  This change in planned shopping patterns represented a significant shift from prior years.<\/p>\n<p>In a June survey, The GWAF asked consumers where they actually purchased most of their spring plants. Consumers confirmed that garden centers or local gardening stores got most (43%) of their business while mass merchants and DIY stores came in second (39%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe gardeners are starting to understand that everyday low prices aren&#8217;t necessarily a bargain.  The survey also reminded me of this infographic from <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/\">The Onion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/files\/images\/Infographic-Walmart-PR-C.article.jpg\" ALT=\"onion walmart pr infographic\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning up some old email today, I ran across a teaser news release from the Garden Writers Association Foundation (GWAF) announcing the release of their 2007 Summer Gardening Trends Research Report. I see these from time to time and find some of their questions of the &#8216;duh&#8217; variety or just not of interest. But this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gardeners shunning big-box stores?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}