‘Early spring’ sparks outside furniture sales
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It’s officially an early spring with Cornish gardens reporting magnolias already in flower but the GTN Bestsellers data is indicating that garden centre retailing is not benefitting from the mild weather just yet.
Perhaps it’s people’s mindsets that are still in winter modes and habits about not getting out in the garden in January and February are too hard to break. Or is it that we are still not ready for the gardening season with appealing gardening and summer furniture displays?
Whilst our EPoS data supplied for GTN Bestsellers is showing the numbers to be behind last year overall last week’s all products index was the first to be up on 2015 so there are positive signs. We are also hearing of great successes where centres are geared up and ready for spring and summer sales.
At Outerspace in Leicestershire they have already sold a £1,300 suite of CoSi Furniture from Transcontinental. Displayed in the outside planteria rather than in the showroom, Andy Suffolk told GTN: “That’s the earliest full price furniture sale we’ve ever had. It’s outside in the rain so that people realise it is totally waterproof.”
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - down 21%
- Veg-2-Gro - down 6%
- Growing Media - up 19%
- All Items Index - up 8%
Pictured: CoSi Furniture from Transcontinental is selling well already at Outerspace, Leicestershire.
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