As our GTN Bestsellers graph above shows, overall sales volumes (a key measure of footfall) have now dropped below last year for all three weeks of July as the heat takes it’s toll of shopping in general.

People are spending more time in their gardens as a result and that must be why plant sales volumes are now up on last year for 14 weeks in a row.  Hooray for our plant sales teams who are doing a terrific job keeping their plants looking so good!

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 29

• Garden Products Top 50 – static 0%
• Growing Media Top 50 – up 14%
• Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – down 7%
• Wild Bird Care Products Top 50 – down 18%
• All Plants index – up 10%
• All Items index – down 6%

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