Inflation and a lack of supplies also affect florists
Business
Lack of flowers and plants in shops and nurseries – this news comes just before Mother’s Day. The guild emphasizes that the company has been struggling with a lack of supplies for a long time, but the companies have adapted to the wishes of the customers.
Certain plants are actually not available. And cut flowers are also scarce. That’s why the orders were planned so that there was enough available especially for Mother’s Day, says the deputy Salzburg guild master Stefan Monger. He has a garden center in Seekirchen (Flachgau) and doesn’t want to pass all of the price increases on to customers, even if cut flower production in Holland, for example, has been reduced.
“It won’t go on forever”
The reason is the increasingly expensive natural gas for heating the greenhouses, says Monger: “It will normalize again. I am convinced of that. Because it can’t always go up. It’s the same with us in production, we pay 30 to 60 percent more for all raw materials. But that has nothing to do with the lockdowns or Mother’s Day, it’s been a lot longer. Of course Corona was a turbo that heated everything up again.”
The global interlinking of the economy has become clearly noticeable as a result of the crisis. All sectors are then quickly affected by the supply bottlenecks.