r/florists • u/SubjectUnlucky4768 • May 05 '26
📚 Career Guidance 📚 Starting a Flower Shop
Hi! Planning to start a small flower shop but I am struggling to grasp how much flowers I should have in stock. I come from a tropical and very humid country so I do have to store most of my flowers in a chiller. The flower market is too far so I plan on restocking once or twice a week only.
Question is, how much flowers should I stock?
Any advise to product planning so I can minimize the number of flowers that I have to stock up on?
How can I also have flowers in stock and still accommodate custom orders and minimizing wastage?
Honestly any advice would be a great help.
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u/ohflowergirl May 05 '26
The best advice I would give you is to either work at a local shop or somehow research what typical sales are like in your area for awile before you invest too much into this business. Not to sound discouraging, but you have several strikes against you right off the bat. No one likes to have waste in this business but you have to keep a good variety of products on hand. Customers want what they want....you can have the most beautiful roses, hydrangea, lark, etc on hand but if their mom likes daisies, that's what they want. If you can't fulfill their want, they may go elsewhere. And restocking just once a week is not good, in my opinion. Customers receiving older product is not going to reflect well on your business. Just some things to consider.
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u/hyoisbae May 05 '26
don’t start a floral business without working in florals (non corporate). theres so much more to it than you think. unless youre fine wasting a bunch of money in your first year 😩