After weeks bemoaning not having a sustained period of good warm weather and that being blamed for the lack of garden furniture and garden decoration sales, temperatures started to soar during the second week of July and as a result garden decoration, lighting in particular, roared back into the GTN Bestsellers charts.
The downside, however, was that core gardening and overall volume sales suffered with the total of all items sold in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data base being 11% down on the same week of 2021 and 3% down on the same week of 2019.
Year to date volume sales are now static with 2021 and 16% up on 2019. It will be interesting to see the effects of the 40-degree heat during this week and the first summer holiday period since 2019 when people have been able to travel abroad in high numbers.
From what we’ve heard during this week, centres with air-conditioned restaurants were a magnet for customers seeking relief from the heat and there were some high value furniture sales too as the mercury rose.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week in 2021: week 28.
- Garden Products Top 50 – down 24%
- Growing Media Top 50 – down 5%
- Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 5%
- Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – down 33%
GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week in 2021: week 28
- All Plants with Barcode index – down 24%
- All Items with Barcode index – down 11%
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