Good spring weather boosts sales in garden centres
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While high street stores and supermarkets were gearing up for their gardening season to start at Easter, garden centres across the country have been making hay while the sun shines with sales in every area up year on year.
Plants are selling particularly well, up 39% in sales volumes for the first week of April vs last year.
What we need now is steady growth over the Easter fortnight and then more good weather through into May. If sales follow that pattern the GTN Bestsellers All Product Index may, for once, show a typical spring and early summer sales pattern.
So far we’ve heard that growers and suppliers are being able to keep up with demand and get centres re-stocked fully after busy weekends. Let’s hope that continues over the next few weeks as less committed gardeners visit garden centres. This is when delivering customer satisfaction really matters to hook them and ensure they come back again soon.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - up 25%
- Veg-2-Gro - up 68%
- Growing Media - up 38%
- All Plants Index - up 39%
- All Items Index - down 15%
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