Cha-ching! (6-27)

Al's Garden Center, with three Oregon locations, is a full-service retail center -- even before the customer sets foot in the door. An answer-based link on the company website called "Solutions & Tips" offers articles that walk prospective specialty gardeners through various steps necessary to create landscapes that serve a purpose.

For example, there are how-to guides for adding color in the summer, for creating shade gardens, for container gardening, for deer-resistant gardens, for drought-tolerant designs and for creating gardens that lure birds, among others.

Each article not only provides all the information necessary for the respective projects, it stamps Al's Garden Center as a "go to" retail destination that provides answers. And that kind of garden center is the kind that tends to net the "Cha-ching!"

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