2024-01-04 17:40:13
The January sales have already arrived in some stores and from the 7th, after the Kings, they start in the big centers, thus chaining to the constant discount campaigns and promotions, which have ended with the image of a multitude of people queuing to get the best ‘bargains’.
The traditional winter and summer sales have had for twelve years, when the regulations were published that allowed the liberalization of commercial activity, the challenge of not losing strength in the face of the permanent state of discounts.
Both periods remain specified dates for consumers, especially for some generations, according to Cessar Díaz, lawyer of the Federation of Consumers and Users-CECU, but other campaigns that are fully installed in their calendar, such as Black Friday, have caused reduce “its intensity and prominence”.
The repeated offers of large online markets, widespread access to the Internet and the rise of thrift stores are making it possible to buy at low prices throughout the year without having to wait for the winter sales and summer
Responsible consumption in the face of avalanches
All this makes these images of long queues that showed the news are no longer seen, according to the CECU spokesman who, without defending the restrictions on sales that existed before 2012, warns that the current situation is generating “a excessive and unnecessary consumerism and in turn many environmental problems”.
That is why from the confederation, although they admit that sales can be a “very good opportunity to buy things” that are needed, they stress that it is necessary to exercise a “responsible and critical” consumption against the “use and throw away” culture that generates large amounts of waste that are exported to third countries.
“Buying to buy doesn’t just affect our pockets. It’s producing unnecessarily,” according to the expert, who advises those who decide to take their credit cards out ‘for a walk’ these days set a maximum budgetmake a list with what they need to acquire and not resort to quick credits to buy what is not a priority.
The average expenditure forecast
A study carried out by the Spanish Consumer Association (Asescon) predicts that those who go to compare will spend an average of 164 euros21 euros less than last year.
Madrid (202 euros on average), Biscay (201) and Valencia (200) are the three provinces where there is a greater forecast of expenditure by each of the consumers. The ones with the least are Albacete (120 euros), Ceuta (123) and Cáceres (124).
But in advance, according to this report, the Spanish they are not very hopeful in which they will find themselves because 88% maintain that the sales “will not bring any additional discount” because other discounts have been advertised in previous months.
Despite this, 80% say they think they will spend money, and this despite almost half not knowing all the rights that assist them in this discount period.
The rights do not go down
The Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) recalls some of them, which must be clear:
The products must have been in the offer of the establishment for at least one month in he they show its original price, next to the discount, or clearly indicate the percentage of the discount. The warranty and after-sales service is the same, regardless of whether the product is bought on sale or not. Should they be established special conditions for this period (limitations in the means of payment or returns), businesses are obliged to indicate this expressly. If the product is in perfect condition, the trade is not obliged to change it (unless it is advertised or advertised as such), although most do so because it is good business practice. They do not have to return the money and can also exchange it for another item or a voucher. The “online” consumer is especially protected: he has fourteen calendar days to return your purchase if you are not satisfied. If you buy an electrical appliance or some electronic product, it is advisable, to verify that the discount that is being advertised is such, to count on the help of one of the websites or applications that have been emerging such as Camelcamelcamel, Keepa, Idealo, Fluctua’t or Twenga, among others.
When the sales start
Many shops have already put up the poster, like Cortefielon whose website they are advertised significant discounts for days in the brand and in others that it advertises.
He English court has released until January 5 a discount campaign up to 40% in a selection of products on the occasion of the entry of the new year, and it will be the is 7, if it follows the usual pattern, when it starts with its big sales.
The group will do the same Inditex -Zara, Massimo Dutti, Lefties and Oysho-, who usually start them online on the 6th, when the little ones give up after playing every day with the gifts brought by the Kings.
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