Growing Media sales just keep on growing. Year to date sales are now 20% up on 2019 and 32% up on 2018 volumes.
Over all the years and weeks we’ve been analysing the GTN Bestsellers garden centre Epos data there have only been three weeks when volume sales were higher than last week. They were the two weeks after last year’s re-opening and the week before we went into Lockdown #1. And last week was the first week of June! Sales were more than double those of previous first weeks of June.
Evergreen Garden Care Miracle-Gro Organic Peat Free 40 litres saw the biggest percentage sales growth to re-enter at No 41.
Westland Alpine Planting Mix doubled sales to come back into the Top 50 at No 46.
Melcourt SylvaGrow Peat Free Multipurpose 50 litres moved up two places to No 25.
Growing media sales bucked the trend of other cold weather inflicted sales performances. Matching 2019 sales volumes and not far behind 2018 levels when we had a bounce back after the ‘Beast from the East’. No-one expected sales to match last year, but after the huge post Lockdown #1 demand last May, being only 7% behind is a better result than most will have budgetted for.
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