Sales boost for sunny side of the country
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Half term saw a distinct East-West split in garden centre sales due to the weather. The GTN Bestsellers team experienced it for real while out judging for The Greatest Catering Awards and that has certainly been backed up by the Epos data supplied for our Bestsellers analysis.
All centres in the East and South had sales decreases week on week while those in the West experienced sales increases with our overall sales figures coming in at 14% down on
last year.
Where the weather was great plants were flying through the tills and we can see from our Plants chart that large plants looking good are really starting to sell through.
The display of Manhatten Lights 5-litre Lupins (pictured below) at Bents Home & Garden was having to be replenished every hour when we called in last Friday. How far will Lupins move up the chart next week?
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...- Garden Products - down 7%
- Veg-2-Gro - down 26%
- Growing Media - down 4%
- All Items Index - down 14%
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