Originally Posted by navcom
because there is a flood in the market of bad products making the good ones stand out even more.
I agree with most of what you have said but the quote above isn't always true. Here's an example;
I work in an independent nursery and we sell quality plant material and provide personal service, a lot of the big box stores (one in particular) sell plant material at low prices without the service and a high mortality rate. The thinking was that these big box stores were killing the independents with their low prices. This has been proved untrue, the reality is that new gardeners buy these cheap plants which then die. Instead of going to an independent nursery after this, they just give up on the gardening completely.