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“Just buy tulips.”

Flowers in general.

When I retired I briefly worked delivering for a fairly small local flower shop.

The owner told me the day before mother’s day is ALWAYS the biggest day.....he made $20,000 bucks that day.

One delivery I had was around 45 miles away.....the arrangement was $150 and delivery was another $60.

Last time I went in for flowers i asked where the owner was, they told me he was on vacation......in SWITZERLAND!

So yeah, the flowers business can be lucrative.

When I retired I briefly worked delivering for a fairly small local flower shop.

My wife does the flower arrangements at our church. She spends $100-$200/week, more for special occaisons.

Yes, there is plenty of mark-up. However, to run a profitable flower shop, you have to be smart. If you guess wrong on how many you buy, you are stuck with stock that will DIE (canned tuna, sticks around. Even aged electronics can be sold at a mark-down. Dead flowers are a total loss.) If you don't buy enough, you risk losing customers long term to someone with better selection. You even have to compete with Kroger & company for Mother's Day and Valentines Day because they will drive the prices down on flowers for those days by bringing in truckloads of the most popular arrangements, and display them to people already there for groceries. Tough business. The guy getting the vacation in Switzerland earned it.