Eight out of 10 florists have raised their delivery charges and/or implemented a fuel delivery surcharge in the past 12 months, according to preliminary results of SAF's online survey of retail florists. The chart below shows how many times they have done so in the past year. More than half (55 percent) have raised them once; almost a quarter have done it twice (23 percent) and a few have done it three times (2 percent). One in five (20 percent) have not raised these fees at all in a year.

Number of Times Florists Raised Delivery Charges in the Past Year

Source: SAF Online Survey of Retail Florists, 2008, preliminary data. Based on 593 responses (response rate = 16 percent).

 

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