Green Profit

March 2019 Issue

Vol. 82 No. 11

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Bringing New Employees On Board

by Katie Elzer-Peters

Who will be this year’s Young Retailer winner?

We’ll be awarding this year’s Green Profit/RBI Young Retailer Award at the Unplugged event during Cultivate’19. If you’re heading to Columbus, make some time to join us Monday night to see who will be on the cover of our September issue. There will be networking, trivia, a rooftop bar and your first drink is free!

WHEN: Monday, July 15 at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Callahan’s Columbus
520 Park Street, Columbus, Ohio

Finalists for the 2019 Green Profit/RBI Young Retailer Award:
Madison Williams — Boulevard Flower Gardens, South Chesterfield, Virginia
Tanner Jones — Helmi’s Gardens, Columbia, Missouri
Morgan Huston — Birdsall & Co., Englewood, Colorado

An extra special thanks goes to RBI and AmericanHort for sponsoring this year’s award!

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NEWSLETTERS

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COVER STORY

Hot Winter Finds

Green Profit Editors

Our editors scoured the winter trade shows to find the newest and best products for spring and beyond.

FEATURES

Bringing New Employees On Board

Katie Elzer-Peters

In the third of a five-part series dealing with creating a well-rounded workforce, we tackle training.

Payment Methods Move Forward

New technology drives the options at checkout.

Retail With Love

Since its birth in 2012, Urban Buds has continued to bring accessible agriculture and beautiful color to the greater St. Louis area.

The Curse—and Opportunity—of the Uncommon Cold

A potential silver lining in the Polar Vortex of 2019.

COLUMNS

Jennifer Polanz

… sometimes you don’t see the things around you clearly until something changes.

“I Have to Have It”

Customers must understand the value when seeking rational justification for an emotional decision. What’s most critical is making sure salespeople aren’t selling to their own wallets.

Coral Arguments

You may ask WHY we might choose to worship a different color every year? It’s so we don’t get stuck … or even more stuck, as the case may be.

Gardeners hang up their gloves in fall, but birders know no season.

FRONT LINES

“Living Décor” Dropping in March

2018 Home Sales

A “Western” Legend

Are You New Here?

Bailey Wins at IPM

Cornelius Nursery Opens New Store

Fairfield Closing

Green Thumb Awards from DGA

CONSUMER BUZZ

The Latest Retail Trends Going on Outside the Industry
for March, 2019

COLUMNISTS

Jennifer Polanz

THE GOODS

J. Berry Nursery
Rico Suave Hollywood Hibiscus

Donahue’s Clematis Specialists
Sally Boulevard Evipo077 Clematis

Monrovia
SunBelievable Brown Eyed Girl Helianthus

Kieft Seed
Lavender Blue Spear

Devron Sales Ltd.
LivePicture GO

AmericanHort
Cultivate’19

Emerald Coast Growers LLC
Pennisetum alopecuroides Praline

Rancho Tissue Technologies
Aloe ukambensis

LiveTrends Design Group
Porcelain Musing Hare

Featherock Inc.
Sierra Artisan Mini Planters

Vegepod USA
Vegepod Raised Garden Bed Kits

CTW Home Collection
Espresso Cup Flower Pot

PittMoss LLC
Plentiful Potting Mix

Entryways
Looking Sharp Doormat

Proven Winners LLC
Supertunia Blue Skies

Suntory Flowers Ltd.
Surfinia Purple Starshine

Flori-Design Inc.
LED Light Terrarium

Allsop Home & Garden
Bloom Solar Luminaria

Plants Nouveau LLC
Helenium hybrida Mariachi Ranchera

Pave Tech Inc.
Airlift Base Kit

Leaf Gulp Inc.
Leaf Gulp

Hort Couture
Coleus Under The Sea Red Snapper

Selecta One
Petunia Headliner Starry Sky Burgundy