Every salesperson will push anyone not currently on pellets to buy pellets. This is good because all birds need the complete and balanced nutrition of pellets. The salesperson will then push the bird owner to purchase the most expensive pellets that person can afford. Which is also good as generally better nutrition is in more expensive pellets, with the best in TOPS and Lafebers. So if you want to have fun with the salesperson, tell them you use one of those two!
To succeed, you feed a great seed mix like Brown's, either Tops or Lafebers pellets, huge amounts of daily fresh veggies and fruits and provide many types of Manu mineral blocks, you can't come even close to properly and adequately feeding your parrot. All you have to do is miss one trace mineral, one vitamin, etc, and your bird could sicken and die. Most of these birds come from far away countries and from dying ecological niches. It is not possible to get a complete, natural diet for your bird/birds from their old environments, even.
And that is why every parrot needs to have a daily pellet in their diet plan the bird will eat. It helps hold off death.
