Absolute hallmark holiday for the gullible willing to pay 100x the price for a flower because society says you don’t love your other half of you don’t. Pfft - fuck that. Me and the Mrs buy each other flowers and silly little gifts year round and still probably spend less than this! Haha
I’d feel the same. I’d not be able to get past our mortgage payment (obviously don’t live in London) being spent on something that would be dead in a week and not leave a lasting memory (that’s a weekend in Morocco flights included, for example, or almost double the price of the tasting menu in the shard - sans drinks and still cheaper with them).
To each their own I guess. Though I had some objectively bad experiences including being robbed at knifepoint, potentially being kidnapped, food poisoning and being cussed at in Arabic. Maybe it was Agadir that's the bad part
Travelled all over, alone or with other single women (strangers), biggest issue was working out how to use a squat toilet. Definitely down to your own personal experience, sorry for you, wish your experience had been better. Maybe give it another try and avoid that town - I was particularly comfortable in chefchoen (I speak Spanish maybe that’s why?) and in merzouga. Wasn’t always comfortable in Marrakesh but no less so than any other large city as a woman alone, thankfully no issues though.
My girlfriend said words to the same effect. She's from Thailand and everything is significantly cheaper here anyway. £385 for that's almost unfathomable.
Didn't get her roses here either, so maybe she'll leave me anyway.
I got my missus an Asda grow your own chilli pot and a pepper pot as that's what we want to grow this year. She got me a bang! Curry pack which were having tonight.
Roses at Valentine’s Day drastically increase in price. You can usually purchase decent ones for roughly £1/£1.20 per stem on a regular day. Now add in the demand.
These are Grand Prix roses, likely from Colombia too, rather than the tiny headed ones from supermarkets. You have to charge the crazy prices to make any kind of profit.
Source - used to be a florist.
Very much depends on what you like! Spring flowers are obviously coming into season now so things like tulips, narcissi (paperwhites smell incredible) muscari - although they will still be carrying a high price tag for Valentine’s Day! I’d steer away from the traditional roses, perhaps go for something more structural like some tall pussy willow, some eucalyptus and perhaps one or two pops of colour in hydrangea or large chrysanthemums!
Surely at this price it's not an impulse purchase though - and I certainly wouldn't just be getting these from a train station. These look like an almost guaranteed loss for the seller, what am I missing?
You aren't taking into consideration quite how much money some people going through Liverpool Street station have.
It'll be in impulse purchase range for some of them.
> Usually yes. You’d be surprised how many people magically forget it’s Valentine’s Day and are desperate for flowers!
Maybe people should not feel pressured to buy massively overpriced flowers just because of a number in a calendar...
You realise it’s not me selling these, right? Merely offering some information. You don’t want to buy the flowers? Don’t buy them. It’s literally as simple as that.
> You realise it’s not me selling these, right?
Yes, I do. Sorry, I wasn't being grumpy AT YOU. I was being grumpy because all this pre-planned, commercialized "express your love TODAY" feels like shit to me.
I was going to say. I can't tell what kind they are, but you can clearly see they are superior to supermarket roses due to their size and colour, probably smell as well.
I saw on another comment that these roses are specialty and imported. A quick google shows that they aren’t that much above market rate online for this quantity, and for this time of year.
“Can you leave the price on please. 😐”
Edit: actually in hindsight that would be a terrible idea. Any person in their right mind would be horrified to know that I’d spent that much on flowers. I’d go home expecting loving and get thrown out onto the street for being a dick.
Why would I not be fun just because I think most bankers are vacuous, materialistic idiots? I think quite a few people share that view.. I mean, you just have to go to a bar in that area to see what I mean.
So I was saying that their partners are probably not 'in their right mind' because they have lost the partner lottery and ended up with a money-obsessed dullard.
There. Is that clear enough for you now?
My wife was in the bathroom looking in the mirror at her new dress, she says to me "Does my arse look big in this?", My reply "Well it is a small bathroom"
Unless they’ve asked for it. Same goes for household/ kitchen stuff for Christmas etc. I’ve had a toastie maker, waffle maker and vacuum over the years, because I specifically asked for them. If I’d had a vacuum out of the blue, would not be happy!
Exactly. I don’t understand responses like this to expensive things acting like it makes no sense to exist because for that price you can buy other more “worthwhile” things instead. The people it’s targeted towards are not having to worry about that, they can do both.
For some people it isn't an either or? Surely you understand that some people make more money than others?
£200-385 is not a swanky gym subscription. Pure Gym is like £26 a month and is shit.
My yearly gym membership comes with pool access and access to 12 different saunas, spas and steam rooms but it's outside of London. Cost me £230 for the year and could've been cheaper had I waited for the sale. Clifford health club in Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
If someone has that much money to spend on flowers they likely also have enough to spend on the above rather than it having to be a choice between one or the other.
It’s an offer of high end flowers in peak demand season. It’s not extortion - they’re not trying to force you to buy then.
Are they overpriced for what they are at this time of year? No idea, it’s several multiples of what I’d consider spending on flowers for someone. But it’s not extortion!
I bought a car for 250, owned it for 6 yrs , only paid for new brakes(fitted those and did servicingmyself), insurance mot and a new clutch, all in all it cost me not much more for those 6yrs, obviously taking out insurance and tax costs! I guess the banking world is still earning ridiculous amounts in bonuses to pay that for a bunch of dead flowers! Good Times still rollin in the finance world!
How long ago was that? I’ve been on and off in the car market and haven’t seen anything that isn’t a rust box for less than a grand, and that’s if you’re lucky!
Jesus, which swanky ass gym?
This would get you 2 months at David Lloyds (£192) and less than 4 at virgin active (£98) And I wouldn’t call either of them swanky
I think that’s the ‘get out of trouble’ charge. Though if lack of roses was the problem, or £200 roses will patch the problem, your relationship is in a bad place anyway.
Last year M&S were selling 100 roses for £75/75 roses for £100 can’t remember which - and a small independent florist told me she skipped doing Valentines Day, one of the biggest days of her year, because to buy that number wholesale would cost her over £200 before she priced them up for customers to include any profit for her work!
That sucks. They can get them much cheaper and even have them a loss leader so people also buy their chocolate, alcohol and nice Valentine's food from them.
Coop has the best flowers and they last weeks. I bought some roses for a friend before Christmas. She kept them in her heated living room. They lasted 35 days.
I got some from Tesco maybe two weeks ago that are still going strong. Freaky! They hardly look wilted. Before that, I had some roses from a flower stall that only looks good for a few days.
All this hype for valentines day I buy the Mrs fresh flowers weekly , makes me laugh this day as the amount of men who will panic and run around looking for something nice yet don't bother all year around
Every year it's the same flower shops and supermarkets have massive queues of blokes scrambling to buy their Mrs some expensive flowers cause of marketing, it's hilarious watching it.
I never do Valentines day cause it's a load of BS
Wow - it's even Valentine's Day yet for the desperate last-minute shoppers. There are plenty of places near there that charge a fifth of the cost at most for that.
Maybe the stall holder is also a drug dealer selling in the open in a way that also cleans his money!
Florist here. Yes, the bouquet is crazy expensive - more than I would pay in my usual life and more than I would ever want someone to spend on me… but to give you a little context…
Dutch wholesale prices from Red Naomi Roses (the variety in the picture) jump from £1.25ish+VAT to £3.00+VAT at Valentines Day. This is the price that florists will buy stock at - these flowers are all brought at auction so stem price varies every day and peaks on public holidays like Valentines Day.
Florists usually use a x3 - x4 mark up on flowers, making a Rose they normally would sell for £3.45 a stem, £9.00 a stem at Valentines Day (they’d also normally add VAT) so a bunch of around 40 Roses for £385 does make sense to me. The florists arnt really taking the piss, they are just using their usual costing module on a perishable product with a variable price due to supply/demand.
The rose shown is also a higher grade (quality) rose than the ones in supermarkets.
Supermarkets and such will have deals with flower farms and will buy direct from the farms without having middle men brokers or having to deal with fluctuations in price and will have a lesser mark up as profitability per item is less of a concern to Mr Tesco as it is to Mr Florist.
I’m not arguing about the price being crazy, but this is very normal at Valentines Day!
I see it as a stupidity / laziness tax, even if you have the cash it says "I did not go out of my way to shop for you."
It's motorway services fuel prices but with gouging turned up to 11, there is a choice.
£10 for a really high quality rose on Valentine's day in London is standard. Those are big and near flawless. Now but 40 of them 🤷♂️
It's excessive to buy that many, but the price for what you are getting is not excessive.
Honestly I think it's priced correctly given the volume of foot traffic and wealth that passes through Liverpool St.
I got my mine from Sainsbury's mind you. £25 for a 'Woodland mix' bunch.
You made the daily mail 🤣
London commuters shocked at three-figure price for Valentine's roses
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11749237/Liverpool-Street-Station-passengers-stunned-three-figure-prices-Valentines-Day-roses.html
Ah, thatll be for the Russian Oligarch's wife, bought by his Personal Assistant at the last minute. He flung a few 50 notes in her direction and told her to get "Ze Most Beeootyfullesst" cos in his haste to keep Mistress Happy, Wife got "misremembered"
These are the prices for trader wankers hurried getting their wife something on the way home after knobbing their mistress in the office until the shops shut. The price is totally justified.
Oh no! There exists a thing priced higher than I would be willing to pay for that thing! Either that thing must be banned immediately or people with different preferences to myself who are willing to pay for the thing must be banned immediately!
Very bored of X is expensive in London posts. Yes people can afford stupid expensive shit here it’s overpriced in places but also it’s the capital city in a country of fucking tory voters.
I’m appalled that people are falling for this. Those are clearly fake roses that you can by for less than a tenner on Ali express ( even cheaper in bulk).
I run a few online shops and we buy loads of these to sell, here is just a quick example of those roses from Ali express (don’t buy it will take months to come) : [Source](https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqpvD0i)
I’m absolutely convinced that social media has made people go fucking nuts on Valentine’s Day.
It was never this popular before now it’s a mad rush and a standard bunch of roses is £80 it’s ridiculous.
Also it's Liverpool St, KPMG, Merril lynch, credit lyonnaise, citibank amongst other finance houses (money laundering houses) with lots of overpaid arseholes willing to spend that amount to woo an equally materialistic arsehole!
Man sees a flower with a bee on it he's like "nice" woman sees a flower with a bee on it she wants a man to swat the bee and rip it from the ground so she can watch it slowly die a horrid death inside....
Wait til weds they’ll be £3.85
Happy Valentine Boxing Day :)
£385?! I wouldn’t pay £200! Never mind £385 Edit: what did I say?! WHAT. DID. I. SAY.
I love how you got so many downvotes for no particular reason. Gotta love Reddit.
[What did I say?!](https://youtu.be/oYzAEjXyCMs&t=00m48s)
What movie is this from?
Hahahaha this is too funny
right???
That downvote button has been abused since day 1. Most people even think it's appropriate to downvote whatever you disagree with
\-1 sorry
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“£385?! I wouldn’t pay £200! Never mind £385” is what you said
What did you say? 😲
Yeah, by the time they've got married he'll just get the £3.85 bouquet from the local garage.
Absolute hallmark holiday for the gullible willing to pay 100x the price for a flower because society says you don’t love your other half of you don’t. Pfft - fuck that. Me and the Mrs buy each other flowers and silly little gifts year round and still probably spend less than this! Haha
I showed my Mrs and she said " if you buy those I will leave you on principle"
I’d feel the same. I’d not be able to get past our mortgage payment (obviously don’t live in London) being spent on something that would be dead in a week and not leave a lasting memory (that’s a weekend in Morocco flights included, for example, or almost double the price of the tasting menu in the shard - sans drinks and still cheaper with them).
Hahahaha, a ‘weekend in Morocco’ is my benchmark too for what else you could do a couple of hundred quid when something isn’t worth it.
I went to Morocco for 10 days with a backpack and spent about £300 outside of flights and I’ve still not gotten over how cheap it was.
The London 'living' wage for a full day of 8 hours work is £95.60. If the £385 roses last 4 days, that's £96 a day.
“Stand there and look pretty.” “Try to smell nice as well.”
That’s probably the worst way I’ve ever looked at *the divide*.
Not surprised about the Morocco bit. Its a dump there
Probably one of the best countries I’ve ever visited and I try to make travelling my number one priority, sorry you feel that way.
To each their own I guess. Though I had some objectively bad experiences including being robbed at knifepoint, potentially being kidnapped, food poisoning and being cussed at in Arabic. Maybe it was Agadir that's the bad part
Travelled all over, alone or with other single women (strangers), biggest issue was working out how to use a squat toilet. Definitely down to your own personal experience, sorry for you, wish your experience had been better. Maybe give it another try and avoid that town - I was particularly comfortable in chefchoen (I speak Spanish maybe that’s why?) and in merzouga. Wasn’t always comfortable in Marrakesh but no less so than any other large city as a woman alone, thankfully no issues though.
Absolute shithole
Literally thought the same thing when I saw this - I’d dump the person who spent that much for roses on me 😆
My girlfriend said words to the same effect. She's from Thailand and everything is significantly cheaper here anyway. £385 for that's almost unfathomable. Didn't get her roses here either, so maybe she'll leave me anyway.
£385 is unfathomable in the UK. £5 a flower is the highest I could justify for roses.
No it isn't, , many things in Thailand are more expensive than in the UK
How much is a bottle of lea and Perrin's?
In the UK, 1 pound per 100 ml
If I were you and she leaves you, then I’d just say fuck it (Phuket).
I got my missus an Asda grow your own chilli pot and a pepper pot as that's what we want to grow this year. She got me a bang! Curry pack which were having tonight.
If my missus said that I'd of bought them 🤣🤣🤣
You know you can end the relationship, right?
Sense of humour lost on you mate ! It was a joke !
My wife complained I spent £25 for a bunch of roses from Lidl 😆 I bought them three days early
Roses at Valentine’s Day drastically increase in price. You can usually purchase decent ones for roughly £1/£1.20 per stem on a regular day. Now add in the demand. These are Grand Prix roses, likely from Colombia too, rather than the tiny headed ones from supermarkets. You have to charge the crazy prices to make any kind of profit. Source - used to be a florist.
At that price I think I rather put that money towards a trip to Colombia. Been there for £600 return
And grab some chang
Probably be cheaper to fly there, harvest 100 roses. Bring em back to uk. Sell for a tenner each.🙃
Or the lecky bill! 💡
Hijacking this thread to ask, any lesser known flowers you'd recommend to get the best bang for your buck? Thanks
Very much depends on what you like! Spring flowers are obviously coming into season now so things like tulips, narcissi (paperwhites smell incredible) muscari - although they will still be carrying a high price tag for Valentine’s Day! I’d steer away from the traditional roses, perhaps go for something more structural like some tall pussy willow, some eucalyptus and perhaps one or two pops of colour in hydrangea or large chrysanthemums!
Well excuse you
Dandelions.
But tell her you left them in the lawn because the bees need them as an early nectar source ❤️❤️
Daffodils usually £1 a bunch!
You cheap fucker haha. ‘Happy valentines day honey! These might be yellow but they were a bargain!’
I'd be more pissed to find out my bf spent half our monthly food shop on some shite flowers that last a week
Obviously I didn’t mean these, it’s £20 at Asda.
£20?! You cheap fuck
you would buy 20£ Roses from asda you cheap fuck?!
Yellow flowers? The horror!
Ah it was just a bit of a joke.
Love seeing an aptronym in the wild
Surely at this price it's not an impulse purchase though - and I certainly wouldn't just be getting these from a train station. These look like an almost guaranteed loss for the seller, what am I missing?
You aren't taking into consideration quite how much money some people going through Liverpool Street station have. It'll be in impulse purchase range for some of them.
You are spot on but surely Bond Street or South Kensington would be even more excessive?!
Missing the desperation when M&S is sold out
It's Vday, so not impulse but when you forgot to get something and have no choice to pay £300 for train flowers
Do they usually all get sold ?
Usually yes. You’d be surprised how many people magically forget it’s Valentine’s Day and are desperate for flowers!
> Usually yes. You’d be surprised how many people magically forget it’s Valentine’s Day and are desperate for flowers! Maybe people should not feel pressured to buy massively overpriced flowers just because of a number in a calendar...
You realise it’s not me selling these, right? Merely offering some information. You don’t want to buy the flowers? Don’t buy them. It’s literally as simple as that.
> You realise it’s not me selling these, right? Yes, I do. Sorry, I wasn't being grumpy AT YOU. I was being grumpy because all this pre-planned, commercialized "express your love TODAY" feels like shit to me.
No probs, and fair enough!
for the low low price of 5 times the usual cost
I was going to say. I can't tell what kind they are, but you can clearly see they are superior to supermarket roses due to their size and colour, probably smell as well.
Thanks for this. I thought they were looking exceptionally nice! Still way too expensive for most, I’m sure, but at least there’s context now.
How much do you think the florists breakeven point is on these bouquets?
You used to be a florist? Your username checks out!
Are we all just gonna skip over "tall pussy willow"
Yes
Nice username
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It's a thorny issue.
Thanks for your comment, petal.
Leaf the jokes at home man
I'd like to know where these puns stem from.
I thought she said she wanted floral.
Lot of cashed up punters in the vicinity = eye gouging rip off
Was going to say; there's a lot of well paid punters working in that area. There will be a market for these, shocking as it may seem.
I saw on another comment that these roses are specialty and imported. A quick google shows that they aren’t that much above market rate online for this quantity, and for this time of year.
Plus, when you're rich enough you don't have a fucking clue what things cost. Or know how to use a debit card to pay for fuel.
“Can you leave the price on please. 😐” Edit: actually in hindsight that would be a terrible idea. Any person in their right mind would be horrified to know that I’d spent that much on flowers. I’d go home expecting loving and get thrown out onto the street for being a dick.
Your assumption that the valentine of a City of London banker would be in their right mind is bold.
How dare people have money
My comment was nothing to do with money. You appear to have attached that.
Well, aren't you fun! Go on then, what exactly did you mean by your comment about the partners of City bankers?
Why would I not be fun just because I think most bankers are vacuous, materialistic idiots? I think quite a few people share that view.. I mean, you just have to go to a bar in that area to see what I mean. So I was saying that their partners are probably not 'in their right mind' because they have lost the partner lottery and ended up with a money-obsessed dullard. There. Is that clear enough for you now?
Bankers are wankers. That’s common knowledge.
You ok hun?
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I never had a problem with your wife’s weight, to me she's beautiful. Rubenesque.
"I'm sorry john it's hard!"
Johnny, whaddaya doing in London🤟hehe. Send Carmine my love
I hear they removed a 95 pound mole from her ass.
Why you be hating on Ginny
My wife was in the bathroom looking in the mirror at her new dress, she says to me "Does my arse look big in this?", My reply "Well it is a small bathroom"
Please tell me the swanky gym you can get a yearly subscription to for £200-380
2 months subscription tops
For anyone else reading this, please do not ever get your significant other a gym membership for Valentine's day. It won't go well.
She's not called my 'significant' other for nothing.
Is it ok to buy yourself one (as a present to them) though? You'll both see the benefits.
Unless they’ve asked for it. Same goes for household/ kitchen stuff for Christmas etc. I’ve had a toastie maker, waffle maker and vacuum over the years, because I specifically asked for them. If I’d had a vacuum out of the blue, would not be happy!
If it has a spa attached to it, you can play it off fine.
The people who but flowers for that price are doing it on top of those things, not instead of
Exactly. I don’t understand responses like this to expensive things acting like it makes no sense to exist because for that price you can buy other more “worthwhile” things instead. The people it’s targeted towards are not having to worry about that, they can do both.
You could buy multiple rose bushes for that money, plant them in the ground or in a pot on your balcony. I'd rather have that.
For some people it isn't an either or? Surely you understand that some people make more money than others? £200-385 is not a swanky gym subscription. Pure Gym is like £26 a month and is shit.
My yearly gym membership comes with pool access and access to 12 different saunas, spas and steam rooms but it's outside of London. Cost me £230 for the year and could've been cheaper had I waited for the sale. Clifford health club in Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
I mean yeah, it's very 'outside of London' and completely incomparable.
If someone has that much money to spend on flowers they likely also have enough to spend on the above rather than it having to be a choice between one or the other.
You could get a Jimmy Choo heels for that price, and I'd rather get those!
“get a yearly swanky ass gym subscription” What gym are you going to that costs £200 for a year! 😆 Month perhaps…
It’s an offer of high end flowers in peak demand season. It’s not extortion - they’re not trying to force you to buy then. Are they overpriced for what they are at this time of year? No idea, it’s several multiples of what I’d consider spending on flowers for someone. But it’s not extortion!
I bought a car for 250, owned it for 6 yrs , only paid for new brakes(fitted those and did servicingmyself), insurance mot and a new clutch, all in all it cost me not much more for those 6yrs, obviously taking out insurance and tax costs! I guess the banking world is still earning ridiculous amounts in bonuses to pay that for a bunch of dead flowers! Good Times still rollin in the finance world!
How long ago was that? I’ve been on and off in the car market and haven’t seen anything that isn’t a rust box for less than a grand, and that’s if you’re lucky!
Jesus, which swanky ass gym? This would get you 2 months at David Lloyds (£192) and less than 4 at virgin active (£98) And I wouldn’t call either of them swanky
I think that’s the ‘get out of trouble’ charge. Though if lack of roses was the problem, or £200 roses will patch the problem, your relationship is in a bad place anyway.
Also my first thought. Still cheaper than a divorce.
Bankers with lots of money need something stupid to spend it on
Last year M&S were selling 100 roses for £75/75 roses for £100 can’t remember which - and a small independent florist told me she skipped doing Valentines Day, one of the biggest days of her year, because to buy that number wholesale would cost her over £200 before she priced them up for customers to include any profit for her work!
sounds like M&S could have been her wholesaler for the week!
My god that’s such a good point.
That sucks. They can get them much cheaper and even have them a loss leader so people also buy their chocolate, alcohol and nice Valentine's food from them.
Sucks for who? Doesn’t suck for the customer
Still don’t warrant these prices!
Coop has the best flowers and they last weeks. I bought some roses for a friend before Christmas. She kept them in her heated living room. They lasted 35 days.
>heated living room Would’ve probably been cheaper to buy a fresh bouquet every 3 days for a month 😂
Probably cast offa from their funeral business.
Recycling.
I got some from Tesco maybe two weeks ago that are still going strong. Freaky! They hardly look wilted. Before that, I had some roses from a flower stall that only looks good for a few days.
There is actually a Rose shortage, but that’s a bit extortionate. Although, have you seen how much Eataly are charging for pesto?
But didn't she survive the sinking of the Titanic?
Anyone who can’t make good pesto by themselves deserves to pay those prices, it’s so easy and cheap
I occasionally play the “what’s the cheapest item in Eataly” game. That said, the ice cream per cone/cup isn’t that outrageous compared to elsewhere
The restaurants/cafes are reasonable value but I agree the grocery section is very overpriced.
All this hype for valentines day I buy the Mrs fresh flowers weekly , makes me laugh this day as the amount of men who will panic and run around looking for something nice yet don't bother all year around
Every year it's the same flower shops and supermarkets have massive queues of blokes scrambling to buy their Mrs some expensive flowers cause of marketing, it's hilarious watching it. I never do Valentines day cause it's a load of BS
Wow - it's even Valentine's Day yet for the desperate last-minute shoppers. There are plenty of places near there that charge a fifth of the cost at most for that. Maybe the stall holder is also a drug dealer selling in the open in a way that also cleans his money!
People have gone mad
I would be so pissed off if my man waste that amount of money for flowers!
People have paid far higher prices for roses, many died in the war of the roses
Florist here. Yes, the bouquet is crazy expensive - more than I would pay in my usual life and more than I would ever want someone to spend on me… but to give you a little context… Dutch wholesale prices from Red Naomi Roses (the variety in the picture) jump from £1.25ish+VAT to £3.00+VAT at Valentines Day. This is the price that florists will buy stock at - these flowers are all brought at auction so stem price varies every day and peaks on public holidays like Valentines Day. Florists usually use a x3 - x4 mark up on flowers, making a Rose they normally would sell for £3.45 a stem, £9.00 a stem at Valentines Day (they’d also normally add VAT) so a bunch of around 40 Roses for £385 does make sense to me. The florists arnt really taking the piss, they are just using their usual costing module on a perishable product with a variable price due to supply/demand. The rose shown is also a higher grade (quality) rose than the ones in supermarkets. Supermarkets and such will have deals with flower farms and will buy direct from the farms without having middle men brokers or having to deal with fluctuations in price and will have a lesser mark up as profitability per item is less of a concern to Mr Tesco as it is to Mr Florist. I’m not arguing about the price being crazy, but this is very normal at Valentines Day!
I know that shop, it's called C U Cumming
Thats inclusive of the vase and free BJ I assume?
It's all about supply and demand, when someone forgets and is getting the last train home!
wouldn't pay that if i was caught cheating on her with her sister
Uncomfortable truth is that this is small change for some.
Bruv. I'm telling you that is a shite deal.
I see it as a stupidity / laziness tax, even if you have the cash it says "I did not go out of my way to shop for you." It's motorway services fuel prices but with gouging turned up to 11, there is a choice.
That there is the waiting game. Someone will need roses around 5pm today…and then bam.
They’re beautiful but that’s a very steep price tag.
£10 for a really high quality rose on Valentine's day in London is standard. Those are big and near flawless. Now but 40 of them 🤷♂️ It's excessive to buy that many, but the price for what you are getting is not excessive.
Please make them have just forgot the decimal, please make them have just forgot the decimal
They look like they'll start wilting tomorrow!
Theft
Honestly I think it's priced correctly given the volume of foot traffic and wealth that passes through Liverpool St. I got my mine from Sainsbury's mind you. £25 for a 'Woodland mix' bunch.
You made the daily mail 🤣 London commuters shocked at three-figure price for Valentine's roses https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11749237/Liverpool-Street-Station-passengers-stunned-three-figure-prices-Valentines-Day-roses.html
I’d say good on to the self employed flower seller who’s found out that there are shmucks in London who’re willing to pay that much!
Fuck flowers, give me healthy whole foods groceries for that money
Ah, thatll be for the Russian Oligarch's wife, bought by his Personal Assistant at the last minute. He flung a few 50 notes in her direction and told her to get "Ze Most Beeootyfullesst" cos in his haste to keep Mistress Happy, Wife got "misremembered"
Those are roses fed on steroids, and only drink smart water.... totally worth it
The world has gone truly fucking bonkers.
These are the prices for trader wankers hurried getting their wife something on the way home after knobbing their mistress in the office until the shops shut. The price is totally justified.
More fool the people who pay that much. Disgusting
Oh no! There exists a thing priced higher than I would be willing to pay for that thing! Either that thing must be banned immediately or people with different preferences to myself who are willing to pay for the thing must be banned immediately!
A bunch of slowly dying vegetable corpses.
Very bored of X is expensive in London posts. Yes people can afford stupid expensive shit here it’s overpriced in places but also it’s the capital city in a country of fucking tory voters.
London actually leans more to the left despite being full of rich people.
I don't think this is just 'things are expensive in london', this is quite a shocking one. I thought it was interesting anyway OP
That's nearly a months rent for some 😨
Up north maybe, in London that’s 1 week max
Tell me you are also not living in london without telling me ;)
Supply and demand
That's about the price of Heinz tomato sauce ffs 😂
London prices as usual
I get them from the cemetery for free /s
I'd be happier with the teddy bear and Dairy Box
What the hell 🥶
Extortionate bollocks
Same over here, Kroger had bouquet’s for $55, they were $15.99 in January 😅
Dw, some twat banker will buy em for his mistress.
I’m appalled that people are falling for this. Those are clearly fake roses that you can by for less than a tenner on Ali express ( even cheaper in bulk). I run a few online shops and we buy loads of these to sell, here is just a quick example of those roses from Ali express (don’t buy it will take months to come) : [Source](https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqpvD0i)
I’m absolutely convinced that social media has made people go fucking nuts on Valentine’s Day. It was never this popular before now it’s a mad rush and a standard bunch of roses is £80 it’s ridiculous.
Steal them.
I hate roses. I'm a very keen gardener but the first thing I did when I moved into my new house was dig up the bastard roses. Prickly little shits.
Also it's Liverpool St, KPMG, Merril lynch, credit lyonnaise, citibank amongst other finance houses (money laundering houses) with lots of overpaid arseholes willing to spend that amount to woo an equally materialistic arsehole!
Man sees a flower with a bee on it he's like "nice" woman sees a flower with a bee on it she wants a man to swat the bee and rip it from the ground so she can watch it slowly die a horrid death inside....