For the past few years, I have been running a variety of gift basket delivery services in the Pacific Northwest.
So far, my business has been successful and has been rapidly expanding out all over the country.
I am often amazed at the variety of stuff that people will want to buy from gift basket services.
One of my gift basket services specializes in fine wines.
Since fine wine is both a classic and elegant gift, that service is doing well.
It is highly unlikely that giving fine wines as gifts will go out of style.
The service that specializes in candies, meats and cheeses has also been successful.
Many of my regular food clients are using my gift basket services twice a month or even more.
Maybe they have a lot of relatives living in places where food is hard to come by.
I also think that the novelty of receiving a gift basket delivery filled with tasty treats is one that never wears off.
I also observed that gift basket services that emphasize flowers, love notes, and other tokens of romantic affection are as popular as love itself.
In fact, folks that grow the most beautiful flowers are still excited about the idea of getting the same sort of flower from someone they love in the mail.
Then again, the romantic side of gift basket services can also start to go a bit odd.
We also specialize in romantic niche markets, and here it can get strange enough to be uncomfortable to talk about.
Let me fill you in with a few of the details.
Dead flowers are the specialty of one of our gift basket services.
This service send dead and dried flowers along with sentiments that reflect a good bit less light hearted affection than most romantic notes will have.
Generally, we send gift basket deliveries with gloomy pictures of pale, broken-hearted youngsters pining away in melancholy longing for each other, to Goth kids.
We also offer candies shaped like hearts with knives through them, tear drops, and other such untraditional tokens of romantic affection.