Five Eyes
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I’m not normally one to write a bad review for a business, but I feel literally obligated to warn people to stay away from this plant shop. I’ve been shopping at this store for a couple of years now and in the last year have decided to boycott it entirely
In the beginning this store was genuinely awesome. The staff was very kind and regularly had little conversations once I became a regular, even going as far to learn what I loved in plants and gave me recommendations and would set stuff aside for me they thought I’d like because they knew I was going to come in pretty much weekly. But as time went on, I and my friends who started to shop here based on my recommendation started to notice a visible decline.
Stuff started to seem unfairly priced, random common plants being weirdly overpriced? Then the plant care of the inventory started to go down. Once well taken care of plants shelves started to look kinda rough, which then progressed to many of them very clearly dying/rotting on the shelves. I actually went in with a friend to WARN them to stay away by showing them in person how bad it was and we literally found a shelf that was horrifically INFESTED with mites. We pointed it out to a worker and I’ve never seen them scramble to pull inventory so fast.
Most of the plants I buy from this store have been massive strugglers and very few have survived their initial purchase. I’m not a novice plant owner, having 40+ plants in my collection with years of plant care under my belt. I have not had these same strange issues with plants I’ve bought from other stores in the area/just other places in general. This store also sold me a plant, offering an extra discount after noticing I was looking at it because it looked like it needed a little TLC and I thought seemed manageable, but didn’t tell me until AFTER I had forked over the money that it “by the way” had spider mites they were “treating” on it. I was pretty pissed to say the least.
I’ve just gotten tired of bad experience after bad experience, as have other people in the plant community around Springfield that I’ve spoke to and gotten to know, and wouldn’t wish this store on my worst enemy. There are other wonderful and RELIABLE plant shops in the area that I’d highly recommend, some even small and locally owned