Nail summer sales. Federconsumatori defines the first final balance of purchases at reduced prices of the season as "disastrous", down by 9,5% compared to last year. Only one in three households buys and the average expenditure per household is 134 euros. For traders, this is a meager turnover of 1,85 billion in all.
The consumers' association speaks of "the extreme difficulty of families, who are increasingly unable to make purchases, not even during sales". Furthermore - claims Federconsumatori -, the situation is not destined to improve given the negative effect of the financial package on expectations, which "get worse day by day". “It is time for the government – concludes the association – to open its eyes to this situation and correct it, correcting the maneuver and arranging measures aimed at relaunching the purchasing power of fixed-income households, instead of further reducing it with tragic consequences for the whole economy”.
