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Bob's Behind-The-Scenes

During my 40 minute drive to Bob’s HQ each morning, I like to listen to podcasts.  Among my favorite podcasts is Freakonomics Radio.  Last week host Stephen Dubner explored the complexity of making something as simple as a pencil.  The episode featured a famous economics essay, “I, Pencil: My Family Tree” by Leonard E. Read.  When you visit one of our markets, you are only seeing a small part of a huge supply chain.  Let’s take a look at how a plant grown from seed gets to one of our markets.  Since spring is just around the corner, let’s take a look at growing pansies.

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Something Big
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Something Big

September is a special month in the history of Bob’s Market.  15 years ago we registered the domain name “bobsmarket.com” thus beginning our presence on the information super highway.  We had no idea how important the net would be today. 

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#Cultivate15 Live Blog: Tuesday, July 14
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#Cultivate15 Live Blog: Tuesday, July 14

Today was the last day of the trade show and educational sessions. This morning, I toured the trade show, and met with quite a few of our suppliers. Get ready for some future articles taking in depth looks at what goes into our products.

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