Strong competition!

Strong competition! Delightful Bouquet already has more than 1000 entries and 29 concessionaires in only 20 days of operation.
It's worth seeing the "business solutions" page. In just one month of operation they figured out how to work with companies and events. Best of all, the kit for assembly of the complete bouquet in our home costs $ 14.

Just wondering, is Always

Just wondering, is Always Delightful in Wisconsin still a Candy Bouquet frachise? I don't see the store name on www.candybouquet.com yet I still see her bouquets on the web. Can a store be open but not on the CBI locator?

Ex-Franchisees That Have Product For Sale

If anyone has product for sale that wants to unload, I have found use for some selective things I bought from a person that closed their business. These would include blocks of thick white foam, cellophane and other "papers", silk leaf fern, green bendable floral wire ... things like that. You can send me your contact information at ruthgill6@atlanticbb.net. And I already know it is coming, so Margaret please don't get on here and tell me people are not allowed to sell these things. I have learned that it is part of a franchisee's contract, and I also learned what I buy and they sell is really none of your business. I am thankful for what I have purchased from exes, but there is always Miami Cello, Cello Depot, Direct Floral and good ole marine shops for the foam. We almost bought this franchise, then I was "enlightened" by this site.

Candy Bouquet a sad state of affairs drops 3 more franchises

Candy Bouquet in a sad state of affairs drops three more US franchises just this week alone. CBI now down to 297 franchises per cbi locator.

Margaret touts on her cbifc forum how she learned soooooo much from her franchisees during their best ever meet-n-greet. My question is why did it take 20 plus years for Maggiepoo to start listening and hearing what the franchisees have been saying all along? Yes Maggiepoo has always pretended to listen but never takes action. Recall the October 16, 2009 Tasty Tips offering the convention discount for all franchisees then not doing what she says. Franchisees questioned her on the cbifc forum about the discount and she says those coming get their discount first then everyone else. Well it appears Margaret has point blank lied again to all the cbi franchisees. This lie is one small example of how she continues the lies to her franchisees.

Do you think the hand picked franchise advisory council has learned much about MM's ways yet? Have they learned how it's not about the franchisee needs but more about MM's needs and ways to line her pockets with those golden coins. Why else has Maggiepoo increased the bounty for franchisees referring new franchises who actually buy a franchise? Maggiepoo is offering a higher bounty for those new prospects that actually buy in. A $500.00 bounty consisting of a cbi certificate is currently offered for franchisees bringing on new prospects that actually buy a franchise. That is an increase of $150.00 up from the $350.00 offered.

You know yesterday I looked up at the sky, much to my amazement, I saw Margaret's Golden Goose trying to fly north since it couldn't get fed in Little Rock. Maybe the Golden Goose was feeling abused much like the franchisees.

Margaret do you have any friends left? You must need to self reflect and figure out why, what happened to everyone.

Thought I would throw this out there since one of your favorite sayings is; "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Oddly enough Magraret is not even in the bible as it's a misquote. Seems you need to read your bible much closer.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

The biblical parallel to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is found in the following verse: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them (Matthew 7:12; cf. Luke 6:31). The phrase, "love thy neighbor as thyself," also bears a close relation to the saying and is found throughout Scripture (Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 5:43; 19:19; 22:39; Mark 12:31; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14; James 2:8; Luke 10:27). James even refers to "love thy neighbor as thyself" as being "the royal law" because it is the embodiment of all the laws dealing with human relationships.

While many will happily point out that the New International Version translates the Lucan passage as "Do to others as you would have them do to you"—which is nearly identical to the standard, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. However, as close as this phrasing is, we cannot point to the NIV for the phrase's origin. The NIV was first published in 1973, well after the phrase came to popularity. Further, as the NIV is founded on a translation framework known as dynamic equivalancy (in which passages are translated in a so-called thought-for-thought manner rather than by a more literal guideline), it seems apparent that they translated the passage in order to reflect the well-known phrase.

Further research indicates that the phrase's earliest known origin comes from a Roman Catholic catechism from 1583 (which reprints an earlier of the same from 1567). The particulars of the phrase may in fact date further back even than this, as the idea of an ethic of reciprocity has been common throughout the world even into ancient histories (we find evidence even in the ancient Greeks).

So, in the end, while the saying does not appear in its common form in any of the more literal translations of Scripture, its sentiment is certainly biblical.

Candy Bouquet is what Dave

Candy Bouquet is what Dave Ramsey would call a "STUPID TAX."