Garden Centre sales keep bucking “normal” trends this summer with sales volumes reported in the GTN Bestsellers aggregated garden centre Epos data staying at the high level of the first week in August when normally we’d all be expecting sales to be tailing off before the start of an increase for Autumn gardening.
That all meant sales for the second week of August 2021 were 19% higher than in August 2020 and a whopping 47% ahead of 2019 levels.
With bulbs only just being delivered into centres after the late harvest this year plant sales and Veg 2 Gro sales both were 15% up on last year.
Watch this space to see how Autumn gardening activity tracks against previous years…
Please note our last week, year on year comparisons, below, are now back to 2020.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week in 2020: week 33.
- Garden Products Top 50 – down 8%
- Growing Media Top 50 – down 6%
- Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 15%
- Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – up 35%
GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week in 2020: week 33.
• All Plants with Barcode index – up 15%
• All Items with Barcode index – up 19%