How bizarre, Rick. Why sell them, indeed? Did the nursery think people were coming from out of state to take advantage of that sale?
I had the same experience years ago when I moved here and started facing the gopher problem. The local hardware store was selling a gadget that was supposed to repel gophers by emitting some sort of underground noise and vibrations. When I asked the guys at the hardware store about it, they fell down laughing and said it didn't work and might qualify as the biggest scam ever. So why did they have it in stock?