Just as we thought Spring was about to happen, along comes Summer and everything in the garden is growing like mad, apart from garden centre sales… yet.

The second week of the Easter fortnight moved sales in the upward direction everyone was waiting for but last week before the schools went back saw total volume sales drop back and as a result didn’t get close to the same week last year, which was the first Easter week in 2017.

As our Easter analysis graph shows, once again an early Easter did not bring any benefit as the weather was the main factor effecting sales.

Plant sales were one area where volumes did increase week on week but overall volumes are running about 2 weeks behind where everyone would be expecting them to be.

The big question is whether those sales are lost or whether they can be made up if the weather stays in our favour. Let’s make the most of the good weather for the time being!

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year (week 15)
Garden Products - down 19%
Growing Media - down 18%
Veg-2-Gro - down 43%
Wild Bird Care - down 25%
All Plants Index - down 16%
All Items Index - down 17%

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