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Jim McCann

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198 total appearances

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

So we have to guarantee them the right return on that so that they'll plant the plants, that they'll tend to them, they'll harvest them and get them to us on time. So there we don't own the land, but we're contracting with the best growers in the world to produce the products we need when we think we need the most.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

So we have to guarantee them the right return on that so that they'll plant the plants, that they'll tend to them, they'll harvest them and get them to us on time. So there we don't own the land, but we're contracting with the best growers in the world to produce the products we need when we think we need the most.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Well, they're so different than the pears that you'd see normally in a grocery store. But living in LA, you would know that once a year we do a big deal with Trader Joe's and the pears that are delicious and almost perfect, but didn't make it to our gift selection. We have a deal with Trader Joe's where we have one week where we sell those pairs off.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Well, they're so different than the pears that you'd see normally in a grocery store. But living in LA, you would know that once a year we do a big deal with Trader Joe's and the pears that are delicious and almost perfect, but didn't make it to our gift selection. We have a deal with Trader Joe's where we have one week where we sell those pairs off.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Well, they're so different than the pears that you'd see normally in a grocery store. But living in LA, you would know that once a year we do a big deal with Trader Joe's and the pears that are delicious and almost perfect, but didn't make it to our gift selection. We have a deal with Trader Joe's where we have one week where we sell those pairs off.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

And boy, is that a big week for us and Trader Joe's when we have those pairs in their stores.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

And boy, is that a big week for us and Trader Joe's when we have those pairs in their stores.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

And boy, is that a big week for us and Trader Joe's when we have those pairs in their stores.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Well, I can only speak to what we do. And let's take, for example, the pears. We grow them in southwest Oregon. There's only three spots on the globe that they grow. in Southwest Oregon and Chile and in New Zealand. And we grow them in all three spots. So it's different seasonality.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Well, I can only speak to what we do. And let's take, for example, the pears. We grow them in southwest Oregon. There's only three spots on the globe that they grow. in Southwest Oregon and Chile and in New Zealand. And we grow them in all three spots. So it's different seasonality.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Well, I can only speak to what we do. And let's take, for example, the pears. We grow them in southwest Oregon. There's only three spots on the globe that they grow. in Southwest Oregon and Chile and in New Zealand. And we grow them in all three spots. So it's different seasonality.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

So it gives us a much longer selling season by being able to grow in those three different spots because it's three different times of the year that they come in.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

So it gives us a much longer selling season by being able to grow in those three different spots because it's three different times of the year that they come in.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

So it gives us a much longer selling season by being able to grow in those three different spots because it's three different times of the year that they come in.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

But we I never thought I'd be so focused on the impact of climate change, which I am now convinced is real and dangerous and we need to be very serious about it, because I see the weather impact that has on us and in southwest Oregon and how that has an impact on our. on our crop, our yield, the quality of our product. It's a little bit of a high desert climate environment.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

But we I never thought I'd be so focused on the impact of climate change, which I am now convinced is real and dangerous and we need to be very serious about it, because I see the weather impact that has on us and in southwest Oregon and how that has an impact on our. on our crop, our yield, the quality of our product. It's a little bit of a high desert climate environment.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

But we I never thought I'd be so focused on the impact of climate change, which I am now convinced is real and dangerous and we need to be very serious about it, because I see the weather impact that has on us and in southwest Oregon and how that has an impact on our. on our crop, our yield, the quality of our product. It's a little bit of a high desert climate environment.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Clearly, we move our flower production to different parts of the country, different parts of the world based on climate change and what temperatures are doing. And in particular, with the droughts in the west of the country, you're keenly aware of that in terms of where you live. But those drought situations are real and changing kind of quickly. And then there's a last mile.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Clearly, we move our flower production to different parts of the country, different parts of the world based on climate change and what temperatures are doing. And in particular, with the droughts in the west of the country, you're keenly aware of that in terms of where you live. But those drought situations are real and changing kind of quickly. And then there's a last mile.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Inside a Florist's Valentine's Day with Jim McCann, Founder & Chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com

Clearly, we move our flower production to different parts of the country, different parts of the world based on climate change and what temperatures are doing. And in particular, with the droughts in the west of the country, you're keenly aware of that in terms of where you live. But those drought situations are real and changing kind of quickly. And then there's a last mile.