Welcome to the Yellow Rose Florist

Right now at the Yellow Rose we working a project to promote awareness on local businesses. It is called the 3/50 Project. The basis of this is show that local businesses are important to the community. A local businessis defined as a company that is indepently owned and operated and has ties with the surrounding community. Many have you have probably shopped at one or more of places and not even realized it. These are not your typical Wal-mart stores or Lowe's for example, as these places can be found all over the country. The businesses I'm talking about are The Yellow Rose Florist, Fun Tan, Martin's Supermarket, and The Chocolate Cafe. There are many more also. These businesses all have one thing in common: They were started right here in South Bend, IN. With the 3/50 project we want to spread the word about shopping more at local places. We're going to save our local economy three stores at a time. The employed consumer will pick three local stores, that they don't want to see disappear, and spend $50 at each of them. This will help place more money in our community better abling us to keep our jobs. If just half the population did this we could generate more than $42.6 billion in revenue. (This statistic is courtesy of the U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2-6-2009.) Shopping doesn't have to be a chore, make it fun by getting to know the owners and operators that live and work in your community.