With more warm – if we dare say hot – weather forecast, the only problem over the next few weeks could be suppliers running out of stock of items that garden centres are selling.
As the GTN Bestsellers Epos data reports another week substantially up on last year we‘ve started to hear the odd tale of suppliers running out of stocks – mainly of summer realted products.
Well who’d have guessed it would turn this good in both weather and turnover. Deep in the GTN Bestsellers data we can see there’s been a big increase in sales of parasols and parasol bases – in fact anything that can be used and merchandised as a sunshade is selling through.
Have you got any leftover stocks of unbrellas – they could be the next big thing – as sun shades! And anything to do with water is selling in good volumes, that’s hose related – see the garden products chart on page 3 – or playing in, such as paddling pools.
Have you created a beach area to attract families during the summer – they’re already prtoving popular? I can see a new trend in garden centre Lidos as the summer alternative to ice rinks. Bring on the cocktail bars!
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year:
Garden Products – up 27%
Veg-2-Gro – down 12%
Growing Media – up 57%
All items index – up 25%
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