Florist WTH?

A local florist we use likes to send out reminders a year after you send out flowers for an occasion like birthdays or Mother's Day. Makes a lot of sense, but it shows a remarkable lack of intellect to ask people if they want to send flowers to this family a year after a funeral. Time to rewrite the program?

I doubt they scan the obituaries in every paper on a daily basis looking for their customer's names. Simply call them after the first reminder and ask to have the name removed.

FredHayek wrote: A local florist we use likes to send out reminders a year after you send out flowers for an occasion like birthdays or Mother's Day. Makes a lot of sense, but it shows a remarkable lack of intellect to ask people if they want to send flowers to this family a year after a funeral. Time to rewrite the program?

Actually Fred I think you might just be displaying an ethnocentric bias towards the culture you grew up in.

Over forty years after my fathers death I receive an annual yahrzeit reminder from the funeral home.

Perhaps other cultures remember with flowers?

Good point. It is tradition in some faiths to send a memento at the memorials of the deaths.