With high hopes that the UK could be in for an Indian Summer, there is even brighter news from the GTN Bestsellers All Epos Products data with volume sales at garden centres 30% higher for August than any year in the past five.

Amazing news indeed! UK consumers, and gardeners in particular, have certainly voted with their feet, and their parked cars, by making more visits to garden centres during August than ever before. That’s what we can infer from the total volume sales data that we receive every week for GTN Bestsellers.

We wonder what the overall retail sales index will reveal for August. Will the High Street and the big supermarkets be up at all? As an industry we need to make the most of telling the world just how successful our garden centre retailing businesses have become. We certainly made a lot of noise and received more attention than usual back at Easter when the weather was against us.

Now we should be shouting even louder about our success so that customers feel even better about coming back and visiting again...and again. How great could autumn gardening and then Christmas be if we could attract another 30% of extra sales volume during those periods?

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year:

• Garden Products – up 13%
• Veg-2-Gro – down 5%
• Growing Media – up 45%
• All items index – up 31%

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