{"id":3028,"date":"2020-05-13T17:57:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:57:42","slug":"a-flower-shop-reinvented-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/a-flower-shop-reinvented-to-reopen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flower Shop Reinvented to Reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>[responsivevoice_button rate=&#8221;1\u2033 pitch=&#8221;1.2\u2033 volume=&#8221;0.8\u2033 voice=&#8221;US English Female&#8221; buttontext=&#8221;Story in Audio&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>A Flower Shop Reinvented to Reopen<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">OAKLAND, Calif. \u2014 Elizabeth Wardman was driving to San Francisco\u2019s wholesale flower market last week when she heard on the radio that California was going to allow florists to reopen for Mother\u2019s Day as part of an easing of coronavirus lockdown rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">By the time she got to the market at 6 a.m., the parking lot was teeming with florists stocking up for one of the busiest weekends of the year. Wisteria Rockridge, her flower shop in Oakland\u2019s tony Rockridge neighborhood, had already received online and phone orders for the weekend. Ms. Wardman scooped up as many flowers as she could in a fit of panic buying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">A flood of delivery orders came in to the shop, three times the usual amount for Mother\u2019s Day. But Wisteria had to stop accepting orders on Wednesday. The store had furloughed its employees and didn\u2019t have enough people to do the work. For the rest of the week, the phone rang unanswered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking,\u201d Ms. Wardman said. \u201cEvery time it rings, you\u2019re missing somebody. You\u2019re letting business go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">Shutting down a business for a public health emergency seven weeks ago, it turned out, was a fairly straightforward thing. Reopening? That has turned out to be a lot trickier. Like thousands of other small-business owners, Ms. Wardman has had to reinvent her shop on the fly, hoping to reach enough customers to keep at least a tiny portion of her operation alive. And she has had to navigate health rules that aren\u2019t always easy to follow and can feel more than a little arbitrary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">California may have allowed florists to reopen for Mother\u2019s Day \u2014 but Alameda County, where Ms. Wardman\u2019s shop is, did not. A grocery store across the street could sell flowers. Open-air garden centers, allowed by the county to reopen just days earlier, could sell flowers. But Ms. Wardman, with her tiny shop, still could not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">She tried anyway. When the store opened on Mother\u2019s Day, Ms. Wardman did her best to nod to the county\u2019s rules \u2014 or not completely flout them. The metal rolling gate out front was still down, and the veranda, usually overflowing with a colorful assortment of seasonal blooms, was empty. The store was selling premade arrangements, not its hallmark custom bouquets. Customers were not allowed inside. A wooden bench blocked the doorway. For a day, at least, she ran an open-air business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">\u201cI keep thinking I\u2019ll get through this, and then I\u2019ll think about how I\u2019m going to approach the next step. Then the rules change, and so I have to make another adjustment,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very confusing time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">Wisteria, like other San Francisco Bay Area businesses deemed nonessential, had to close its doors when Alameda County, which stretches along the east side of the bay, and six other counties <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/16\/us\/california-covid-19.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">imposed shelter-in-place orders on March 17. Several days later, just as all of California was following the Bay Area\u2019s lead, Ms. Wardman furloughed all of her employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">A native of England, Ms. Wardman, 59, who goes by Liz, moved to the United States in 1989 for a teaching job. When that contract ended, she started working in flower shops and has done that for the last 30 years. With glasses perched on top of her head, she speaks with a faint English accent and exudes the restless energy of a person with a lot to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">When Ms. Wardman opened Wisteria in 2015, she knew that running her own store wouldn\u2019t be easy. In the preceding three years, two other flower shops had shut down in the same space. Ms. Wardman had been an employee in both stores and knew the challenges of sustaining a business with high Bay Area taxes and expenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">But she loved the neighborhood, and she wanted to create a \u201cplace of beauty\u201d with an English garden aesthetic where customers could work closely with florists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">She said the store was doing \u201cOK\u201d before the pandemic. It wasn\u2019t losing money, but it wasn\u2019t making a ton of it, either. Wisteria had five full-time employees and part-time staff during busy periods. Last year, the shop generated around $750,000 in sales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">On the same block as Wisteria, other small businesses are also straining to deal with new health rules. The grocer next door, Yasai Produce Market, is allowing only five customers in the store at a time. Wood Tavern, a pricey neighborhood brasserie, is doing takeout orders while selling pantry items like sodas and ketchup. Ver Brugge Foods, the butcher, is shortening its hours because it doesn\u2019t have enough staff coming in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">On the day her flower shop was ordered to close, Ms. Wardman did what she had done most Mondays: She woke up at 3 a.m. and headed to San Francisco\u2019s flower market. That morning, she bought $1,600 worth of roses, tulips, ranunculus and spirea. By noon, she had heard the news of the lockdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">\u201cMy first thought was, what am I going to do with the flowers?\u201d Ms. Wardman said. \u201cThen I started to think about what am I going to do with these people who depend on me for their livelihood.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">At the end of the first week, she decided that she had no choice but to let her staff go. The wholesale market, her main source of flowers, was closed. (San Francisco allowed it to reopen in the week leading up to Mother\u2019s Day.) It was unclear when Wisteria would be able to fully reopen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">A few local growers asked if she would buy some of their flowers. She had longtime customers placing weekly orders for bouquets and a handful of orders from people who heard that Wisteria might still be open. She did the arrangements and made most of the deliveries on her own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">Even though her sales were down 75 percent in April from the year before, she had a few things going for her. Her biggest cost, labor, was close to zero. She wasn\u2019t even paying herself a salary. And her rent was based on a percentage of her sales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">\u201cA percentage of not very much is not very much,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">For Mother\u2019s Day, Wisteria couldn\u2019t rely on last-minute walk-up customers as it had in the past. Fenella Fletcher, who has worked at Wisteria since its opening, built an online ordering system on the store\u2019s website to supplement the phone orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">On the Friday before Mother\u2019s Day, Ms. Wardman and Ms. Fletcher, who has been a friend for 18 years and was working without pay, scrambled to build all the bouquets for Saturday delivery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">Inside, even through the filter of a mask, the air smelled like spring. A corkboard hanging on the wall had stacks of handwritten orders pinned to it. The ground was littered with loose stems, leaves and flowers that didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">Ms. Fletcher worked on arrangements with industrial buckets of tulips, roses and other flowers at her feet. She stopped to fix another arrangement that she said wasn\u2019t quite right. Too much contrast in the colors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">When customers came by to pick up their arrangements on Friday and Saturday, they slid their credit cards through an opening in the metal security gate. Flowers were handed over with an offer of a squirt of hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">Inside the nine-foot-wide store, maintaining social distancing proved difficult. Shelves, finished arrangements on rolling tables, empty pots and succulent plants crowded every surface. There was a narrow path to the rear where Ms. Fletcher was arranging flowers. As Ms. Wardman and others walked, they squeezed past one another like passengers in an airplane aisle. The phone rang nonstop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">A frantic Ms. Wardman scooted past, shouting to no one in particular: \u201cNot stressed at all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">On Mother\u2019s Day, a sign outside the store read \u201cGrab N Go only\u201d with a handful of premade arrangements resting in metal buckets on the sidewalk in front of the store. An orderly line formed in front for pickup orders or last-minute flowers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">\u201cWe want her to stay in business,\u201d said Jill Boyce, who lives nearby and was waiting for her flowers. \u201cIt\u2019s part of my neighborhood. We all need each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">When customers asked for a custom bouquet, Ms. Wardman could only apologize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">\u201cWe can\u2019t operate like we once did. Things are a little different now. I\u2019m sorry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">It was one of many reminders that business was not back to normal and may not be for a long time. One customer tried to pay with cash, but the store was taking only credit cards. Potted orchids, another popular Mother\u2019s Day gift, were not available. But nothing seemed to bother Ms. Wardman more than not being able to make custom bouquets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">She said she had opened Wisteria as an alternative to supermarkets and other florists with what she called \u201cthe bucket shop mentality\u201d \u2014 premade bouquets sitting in big black buckets. \u201cBut that\u2019s what I am doing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">Ms. Wardman said Wisteria made about $11,000 on Mother\u2019s Day weekend, better than she had expected. It made $33,000 last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">As she considered the coming months, there were some grim realities. She probably couldn\u2019t let customers inside the small shop and maintain adequate social distancing. All her wedding orders were canceled or postponed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-nnwssh evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be the same,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can\u2019t grow. 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