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JONES BEACH, NY – On Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 1800Flowers.com participated in the Marcum Workplace Challenge. Since 2005, the Marcum Workplace Challenge has brought Long Island businesses together for the amazing cause to help raise money for various charities. Annually held at Jones Beach State Park, the race features a 3.5 mile course followed by a picnic. Event participation is so great, that it is actually Long Island’s largest office picnic. This year, 1-800-Flowers.com was happy to have a team of 75 people participate in the challenge! Some even brought their families, too!

Participating Charities (including but not limited to):

• The Long Island Children’s Museum 
• Long Island Cares, Inc., and more specifically, the Harry Chapin Food Bank
• The Children’s Medical Fund of New York
• Nassau County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Enjoy Free Shipping/No Service with 1800Flowers’ Loyalty Program

In case you haven’t already been in the know, we wanted to let you in on a little family secret that we are thrilled to share with all of you. 1-800-Flowers.com is proud to present a family of brands membership program that allows you to get free shipping on ALL of our gifts, ALL year long.

If you’re into things like free shipping, then our Passport membership program may be the perfect way to make your gifting easier (and more economical) than ever before.

1. Not to be redundant, but we really need to ride this one home :). Get FREE unlimited standard shipping / no service charge on all eligible orders.
2. Our family is pretty awesome, and lucky members will get to enjoy perks from our ENTIRE family of brands. That includes 1-800-Flowers, 1-800-Baskets, FruitBouquets.com, Cheryl’s, The Popcorn Factory, Wolferman’s, Simply Chocolate, Personalization Universe, Shari’s Berries, and Harry & David.
3. All of your purchases are put into one shared account for easy checkout between brands.
4. There is no minimum order size which helps you gift (or receive) unlimited deliveries.
5. No promo code is needed so you don’t have to worry about forgetting to add it to your order! Just sign in and it’s automatically applied.
6. Since you are VIP, get exclusive member-only special offers and product previews.
7. Never forget another occasion again with friendly gift reminders when important birthdays, anniversaries and holidays are coming up with Celebrations Reminders®.
8. Need a last-minute gift? No problem. Send last-minute gifts with same-day flower delivery for a reduced shipping rate.

Click here to visit our official Celebrations Passport page to signup and get all of the info you need about the program!

To make this Mother’s Day link to mothers day flowers even more beautiful for mom, we partnered up with Drew Barrymore and her Flower Beauty line to bring mom gifts as beautiful as she is. While supplies last, all purchases of our Blush & Bloom arrangement (farm fresh pink roses a sparkly diamond vase), will also include complimentary popular lip products from Drew Barrymore’s beauty line, FLOWER, for free!

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CARLE PLACE, NY – Let the creativity begin! Every season the 1-800-Flowers.com Product Development Team brings some of our most talented Florists together from across the country to brainstorm and design exciting new floral designs! The Floral Design Council is a forum for Professional Franchise Florist’s, their designers, and guest designers to work together in creating unique product concepts for 1-800-Flowers.com. Each Designer brings their own imagination, knowledge of the industry, and familiarity with their customers in order to design innovative floral arrangements that not only fit hot trends, but also help to create new ones.

Our Spring Mother’s Day 2016 Design Council recently took place in April in our floral design studio and has been a huge success! Five florists from five different cities around the country brought their “A game” and crafted some pretty amazing designs, all unique in their own way.

Even though designs are confidential until brought to our site (sorry!), we wanted to share some pictures to show you how some of our products are crafted!

From left to right: Walter Fedyshyn from Chicago IL; Emila Borz from Sacramento, CA; Develyn Reed from Stafford, VA; Jaye Dargan from Dallas, TX; AnnMarie Pierce from Baldwin, NY

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Meet Rooney the French Bulldog and go behind the scenes as this lovable pup helps with 1800Flowers’ Valentine’s Day flower selection. From stopping to smell the roses, to meeting a dog made of flowers, Rooney embarks on an exciting Valentine’s Day journey that is truly aDOGable… we mean adorable!

1800Flowers Apps Are Now Available in the iOS App Store, Google Play Store, & Windows Store.

Available TODAY, 1800Flowers has released new flower delivery apps that allows users to purchase and send flowers and gifts in just a few taps on your smartphone!

Users will love some improvements that were made to the new app version including but not limited to: quicker speed, ease of use, and appealing design.

Check out some of the app features below:

• Special 1800Flowers offers for app users only
• One Page Checkout
• Apple Pay
• Quick, easy, and secure login & checkout
• View and redeem Celebrations Rewards points
• Super fast top-of-the-line native (custom for your device) experience
• Design based on user experience guidelines for each device operating system for easy use
• Easy import of a contact’s shipping address directly from your phone
• Availability of the full 1800Flowers product catalog
• International flower delivery on some platforms & expanding to all soon

1800Flowers is the first flower company to introduce a completely native flower app to create an entirely new user experience. In fact, it’s so easy that a signed-in customer may not even have to touch the keyboard in order to send flowers, plants and gifts to someone special. Simply browse our gifting collections, choose your gift, select a delivery date and receiver from your contact list, pay, and submit! You will then receive an informative email explaining that your gift is on it’s way! The last step is to expect an excited phone call from that special someone. Smiles all around, since delivering smiles IS our specialty. 🙂 Continue Reading…

NEW YORK, NY – On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Pencils of Promise celebrated their 5th annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. Pencils of Promise is a global community that believes everyone has the right to quality education, and takes action for the cause by raising funds to build schools in countries where children are often deprived of that very right such as Ghana (Africa), Guatemala (Central America), and Laos (Southeast Asia).

Since 2009, Pencils of Promise has grown leaps and bounds building 319 schools, with 33,856 students served! Even though PoP has made amazing progress, with 250 million children lacking basic reading, writing, and math skills, they believe there is more to be done, which is what brings us to the reason for tonight’s gala.

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In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we wanted to highlight some of the amazing workers at Smile Farms at IGHL (Independent Group Home Living). Smile Farms is a non-profit organization that employs developmentally disabled adults to give them meaningful work opportunities and allows them grow and sell flowers and plants in the community where they live. To get a better feel for the importance of this initiative, we wanted to share with you what the farmers had to say about their job. It #MadeMeSmile, it makes them smile, and we wanted to share that smile with you, too. Here is what they had to say:

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