Sales down at garden centres during half-term week
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This year’s October half-term school holiday has proved to be not as good as last year for garden centre sales, according to GTN’s Bestsellers data.
Was it the spectre of the new James Bond film pulling families into the cinema instead of visiting the garden centre? Or was footfall actually on a par with last year but slightly fewer items were sold?
The one area of GTN Bestsellers EPoS data that was up year on year during October was growing media sales volumes. Up 8%, indicating that the great year for core growing activity continues.
Autumn and winter planting continues to run later than last year as seen with bulb sales continuing at high levels and a bulb fibre line sitting in the Top 3 sales items.
How was your Halloween half-term this year? Let us know via e-mail: trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - down 12%
- Christmas Products - down 6%
- Growing Media - down 16%
- All Items Index - down 10%
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