Bishop’s Flowers has been bringing smiles to faces for 27 years. Co-Owner, Jerry Williamson, said in that time he’s seen gas prices change quite a bit. He said, “Over 27 years it’s fluctuated a lot, we’ve seen a lot.”
Today, AAA set Alabama’s average price per gallon at $3.98. That’s up more than 30 cents from last week. When it comes to how gas prices are impacting his business, which is primarily a delivery business, Williamson said, “It’s really affected us.”
Williamson told his business typically does 15-20 deliveries in a day. He said he recently had to raise his delivery fee. Although he said, the increase in the fee really just offsets fuel costs. He said, “Just because we had to, not that we’re really going to make a lot of money off of that. We still lose money off the delivery fee.”
In addition to that, he said his flowers take quite the journey to get to his store. Williamson said, “We go through three groups of shipping or transportation, just to get you a dozen roses.” While he’s had to make price adjustments, Williamson said, they aren’t pocketing that money. “I have employees that I have to pay their salaries, so they can feed their families,” he explained.
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