Christmas tree shopping: Cost vs. convenience
WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. - Some U.S. consumers are going over the Internet or through the woods to find fresh Christmas trees this year, taking advantage of shopping options at opposite ends of the cost spectrum.
In one camp are thrifty folks paying as little as $5 for trees they cut down themselves in national forests. In the other are consumers willing to spend upward of $100 to order trees online and have them shipped to their doors.
The National Christmas Tree Association says fewer than 3 percent of the 33 million fresh trees purchased last year were sold online but that number is growing. Meanwhile, the U.S. Forest Service sold 196,000 Christmas trees last year to consumers willing to hike into the forests and harvest them.
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