STATEMENT OF INTENT: Sumptuous POS and clear statements of intent means that customers know where they stand with food bought from Downtown.
When times are hard, smart retailers make even more of their high income departments – and according to GCA September figures that means Catering, Gifts and obviously Christmas, are all up – both month-on-month and year-to-date.
For Grantham-based Downtown Garden Centre the sales star is food. “We created our food hall in February, and sales have been very, very good,” Assistant Manager Jackie Burke told GTN Online.
See below for a virtual tour of both Downtown’s new Food Hall, AND the very latest in garden centre food & catering courtesy of the GCA Midland Group audits, by independent retail consultant Andy Campbell.
