Don’t panic, it’s not as bad as 2013!
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Reports of last week being as much as 50% down on last year are backed up by the GTN Bestsellers EPoS data analysis.
The GTN All Products Index is down 29% on the same week last year and our Veg-2-Gro Top 50 is down 52%. But we should remember, week 15 last year was the first of the Easter weekend, and it was considerably warmer!
Just so that we don’t get too “down” on the situation, we’ve looked back to 2013 and added that data into our weekly sales trend graph.
While this week’s sales brought the total volume sold year to date back to almost even against last year, we are running at 27% up on the year to date sales of 2013.
And in 2013, as you see from the orange line, we had really good sales in May and a pretty good June. So there’s no need to panic, it’s still all to play for.
Have you been looking back to your records to find out what you did in 2013 to make those sales in May and June work?
GTN Bestsellers subscribers can now receive a refresher of the bestsellers through May 2013. If you would like to subscribe email trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - down 27%
- Veg-2-Gro - down 52%
- Growing Media - down 33%
- All Items Index - down 29%
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