Retail

Landscape Trades looks at successful garden centres across Canada for insights on how to grow in the challenging retail environment.

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In the current retail environment, where mass merchandisers continue to take market share, and enthusiasm for gardening has shifted to edibles, organics and container gardening, letting spring slip up on you (again) could be disastrous.

Rod McDonald draws on his years of experience in garden centre retailing to help others avoid setbacks, and stay on the road to success.

The keys to competing with box stores