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2 Apr 2015,  George Bullivant

Garden centres will lose £12 million on Easter Sunday

“The Sunday Trading Act is an anachronism in this day and age,”says the HTA when visitors finding their garden centre closed on Easter Sunday can return home and buy the same products online.

8 Apr 2015,  Neil
We have lost thousands of pounds by having to close easter sunday, a combination of sunny warm weather and poor weather on good friday/saturday would have made it a bumper day. It is completly ridiculus that you can buy online or on TV shopping channels. It is spring almost all garden centres need a maximum income to pay bills and put a bit away to pay for preseason. Epecially at easter the weather can be poor, so there is a chance that sunday could be the only good day so having a serious effect on profits. Staff who work in garden centres should be aware that half the yearly sales are taken in a few months, working as much as they can in spring. and if needed taking extra time off during quieter times.
3 Apr 2015,  justagardener
£12m? I just don't get this. As a smaller centre our hard working staff would miss out on a family day themselves, the trade would be diluted over the 4 day period and operational costs would be higher. Ok, the coffee shop would be the exception. Is it not the case that garden centres in France mostly close every Sunday? Belgium, Holland and Germany also have a mix of opening hours. So the big impersonal chains want to open - should they control what the rest of us do?
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