July was only average for garden centres sales volumes
After the record sales volumes of earlier in the year the expected but unwelcome rebalancing in garden centre transactions continued throughout July.
GTN Bestsellers analysis of weekly garden centre Epos data shows that volume sales matched the average level of the previous six years but ended 7.5% down on last year.
Of the areas specifically analysed in detail by GTN, Garden Products fared worse year on year, down 24% for the month. Veg-2-Gro and Growing Media sales volumes were down 17% and Plants down 10%.
With the weather outlook for August looking uncertain: “The second half of August sees the confidence in the forecast reduce significantly, but a northwest-southeast split is most probable,” reports the Met Office as GTN Bestsellers goes to press. That means everyone will need to make sure they are getting maximum sales from possibly reduced footfall.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
