Supermarket Flowers Can Wow Your Valentine, If You Add Love

TAMPA – Should you ever give supermarket flowers to your sweetie?

"Oh yes, it's great as a little spontaneous surprise," says Michelle Valentine, who deals with matters of the heart through Orlando-based michellevalentine.tv.

But won't she think you're cheap?

"Well, peel the label off, and the wrapping," suggests Stephany Alexander of Scottsdale, Ariz., who helps women rate men at womansavers.com. "And maybe put a bow on. She won't really know where it came from."

The question took Patty Brisben back to a Kroger supermarket, a night before Valentine's Day, when she saw men nearly coming to blows over the last bunch of flowers.

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