A combination of lockdown#3 and wintry weather means that even shopping for gardening essentials stays at an all time low as far as the GTN Bestsellers Epos data tells us.
While all of the GTN Bestsellers sales indexes are a very long way behind last year sales of seeds, compost and seed propogation products are indicative of the activity and sales that will be top of the agenda when the weather improves.
Many centres we’ve spoken to over the past few weeks have reported receiving a lot of their pre-season gardening products orders already, with some even saying they’ve got their whole years’ worth of compost in stock.
As ever, we need the weather to improve and then some good news on the lockdown situation to allow for gardeners to get out and get growing.
This weeks GTN Bestsellers includes the Top 100 Christmas products of 2020. We’ll include the Top 100 Garden products of 2020 in next weeks issue. Subscribe to GTN Bestsellers using this link.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 2
- Garden Products Top 50 – down 76%
- Growing Media Top 50 – down 86%
- Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – down 54%
- Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – down 63%
GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 2
• All Plants with Barcode index – down 78%
• All Items with Barcode index – down 76%
