Another week of sales up on last year and ahead of GTN Bestsellers Volume sales predictions, sets up the possibility of garden centre sales volumes reaching the year end up by almost 0.5%.
For sure, sales values will not reach that level as we missed key plant and high value furniture sales earlier in the year but it once again shows the resilience of UK garden centres and their ability to continually attract customers and sell products.
With Christmas displays open in most garden centres now and good early sales being reported the push is now on for major festive events to continue stimulating customer visits.
Santa and his reindeer have a busy schedule in November, arriving at centres all over the country and with ice rinks, circuses and special shopping evenings most garden centre retailers are doing their utmost to get back some of their early season losses.
