Easter sales in garden centres were just above average
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Easter 2017 was just an average Easter in the end, closing 3% above the average sales volume for the last seven Easter trading fortnights.
Total garden centre sales dropped slightly week on week, as reported in the EPOS data provided to GTN Bestsellers for the second half of the Easter period but all of our gardening indexes showed week on week growth, indicating it was the non-gardening trade that we missed out on, probably due to cooler weather and the different school holiday dates across the country.
This week’s cold snap may take some of the gloss off April sales volumes, currently running 13% up on last year, but most agree that the steady nature of sales so far this year is much more manageable than a season of peaks and troughs.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - up 13%
- Veg-2-Gro - up 73%
- Growing Media - up 35%
- All Plants Index - up 12%
- All Items Index - up 11%
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