Summer fun lights up sales in garden centres
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Summer arrived at last and signs that customers are enjoying time outside in their gardens is evident in the GTN Bestsellers sales data.
Although volume sales dropped overall week on week sales of garden lighting, growing media, seed potatoes and plants that are looking great for instant summer colour all saw increases.
Garden lighting sales are really in full swing with 6 out of the Top 10 lines in the GTN Garden Products Chart being garden lighting. The colourful Pull lights from Premier Decorations that are ideal for hanging under gazebos and parasols are the new No 1 Bestseller.
Even this late into the season sales of Pelargoniums (including zonal and ivy geraniums) have increased week on week. Customers must be buying them to give instant decoration to patios, balconies and borders.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - up 19%
- Veg-2-Gro - down 18%
- Growing Media - up 2%
- All Items Index - down 5%
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