After the heatwave came a weekend of heavy rain and thunderstorms and guess what, sales from garden centres dipped, but they are still ahead of any of the previous four years sales for the same August week.

Hopefully a weekend of drier, all be it windier weather will encourage people back out into their gardens and to garden centres to buy some more plants, growing media, pots and bulbs for the Autumn.  

From the depths of the GTN Bestsellers Epos data we can also see that where a few Christmas lines have been put out on shelves they are selling through straight away.

Decorative facemasks and sanitiser products are a new area of sales that garden centres are benefitting from.  The volume of facemasks and sanitisers sold last week was higher than our recorded sales of Wild Bird Care products and Veg-2-Gro lines.

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 33

•           Garden Products Top 50 – up 44%

•           Growing Media Top 50 – up 93%

•           Wild Bird Care Top 50 – down 20%

•           Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 50%

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 33

•           All Plants with Barcode index – up 40%

•           All Items with Barcode index – up 23%

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