GTN Bestsellers Epos data has confirmed that April 2021 garden centre trading was an all time record for volume sales, even topping the previous high for the month set back in 2011.
The GTN All Products Index for April 2021 is 25% ahead of April 2019 and 23% ahead of the average for April trading between 2011 and 2019. It's now fair to say there's about a quarter more gardening going on in the UK as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More cold, windy weather caused overall sales to dip slightly last week but they were still 18% ahead of sales in the same week of 2019.
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