Some sunshine, albeit still cold, has started to turn the GTN Bestsellers sales charts in the right direction, and with significant warmer weather forecast for this weekend, you never know the season could be just about to go into hyper drive.
As our prediction chart shows, if we have great weeks of sales between now and the end of May we can recover all that we’ve lost and be almost 3% up year on year.
To stand a chance of that, of course, we need the weather to be on our side. And we also need every single member of a garden centre’s staff to be at their best when it comes to linked sales.
You need to make sure your customers buy everything they need for their gardening project during their visit to your store. Don’t leave them to think about going elsewhere. They are more likely to come back to your centre if you’ve sold them everything they need.
This week’s GTN Bestsellers charts show the desire is there as the keener gardeners have been out shopping even in the cold – more garden products were sold last week than in the same week last year. Remember the cold spell that came after a warm March?
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year:
Garden Products – up 14%
Veg-2-Gro – up 9%
Growing Media – Down 19%
All items index – Down 9% (compared to Easter last year).
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