October 2015 is proving to be a great month for garden centre sales with another week of EPoS data reporting sales increases up on the same week last year in all categories measured by the GTN Bestsellers charts.
Whilst Christmas is growing steadily the biggest impact is on core gardening where growing activity, as monitored via the GTN Growing Media Top 50 Bestsellers, is up by over a quarter on the same mid October week last year and in 2013.
The turn in the weather to a colder and wetter period has certainly driven a shift in garden product sales with Gardman Frostgard climbing 18 places to No 7 in the GTN Garden Products Chart and Woodlodge small pot feet outselling Fito Orchid drip feeder volumes to reach the No 1 Bestseller position for the first time. That surely must be down to the growth in pot sales and container gardening!
Other signs of high gardening activity levels are illustrated by Bayer Boltac Greasebands re-entering the chart at No 34 and 150 gram packs of Rootgrow Friendly Mycorrhizal Fungi returning at No 35.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
