Holidays

Retail Customers Prioritize Spending on Family, Friends this Holiday Season

Buying gifts for friends and loved ones is a way for consumers to shift focus from the uncertainty and stress of the pandemic to celebrating the holid... more »

Dirty Secrets Kicker Tips and ideas IGCs can use to merchandise holiday items.

The Four C’s of Christmas Trends

After what we’ve all been through this year, I might be suspicious of someone who honestly believes they KNOW what’s in anyone’s shopping brains... more »

Pohmer How Clear Is Your Crystal Ball for 2021?

How Clear Is Your Crystal Ball for 2021?

Spring 2020 could have been a total disaster for locally owned garden centers; all the external forces were lined up against us — and then what wor... more »

Kurt Adler Winter woods tree-horiz

Getting into the Holiday Spirit

Kurt S. Adler Inc.  has been selling Christmas decorations to garden centers for over 60 years, many of those garden centers are still buying from th... more »

Dirty Secrets: How will the pandemic affect garden centers’ holiday business?

The Virus Who Stole Christmas?

At the time of writing this piece in July, levels of COVID-19 diagnoses are at record numbers nationwide; however, when it comes to holiday retail, ga... more »

Webinar to Provide Holiday Season Ideas

As consumer mindsets change, so does the way they decorate for Christmas. Join Shannon Kuhrt, vice-president of M&M Wintergreens as she takes an i... more »