Poor weather dents hope of a great Autumn for gardening
The weather is playing its part again as cold winds and rain appear to have put paid to an Autumn gardening bonanza.
This week’s Garden Products Growing Media and Veg-2-Gro GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes are all considerably down on the same week last year.
Total garden centre volume sales are however still up year on year, so we can once again count ourselves lucky that even when the weather isn’t so good, customers are happy to come and spend time and money in garden centres.
Looking through the Epos data sent to GTN each week, the ‘bad weather’ big volume lines have mainly been Christmas related – cards, calendars and personalised baubles.
We’ll hold off from publishing the GTN Bestsellers Christmas Chart until the start of October though so we can see if Autumn gardening does get back on track. We can use Onion Sets as a good barometer of activity.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year:
Garden Products – down 10%
Veg-2-Gro – down 33%
Growing Media – down 10%
All items index – up 16%
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