Health: in 'balance' also medications and foods, discounts from 5% to 50% - Focus

Rome, January 3 (Reuters) – Not just clothes, bags and shoes. Accomplice more than ever, the economic crisis, the ‘fever off’ at the start of this week in Italy will also involve genders once excluded from promotions, such as foods and drugs. In both cases, the products are related to the winter period and, in particular, for food, for Christmas, while for medicines, price reductions will focus parafarmaci and drugs that treat ailments of the season.

According to data from Fiesa, the Association of Traders of Confesercenti food, the food the ‘balance’ in early January and will therefore be sweet dishes typically associated with parties, sold with discounts from 50% to get rid of inventories year. The discount will rise again after the Epiphany, if you still have stocks.

Here are the products affected by the ‘sale of recovery’: pig’s trotters and sausages, eel, special packs of lentils (the ‘kit’ for the last year); Christmas gifts; nougat; pandori, other desserts holidays from buy at reduced price to fill the shoes of the Epiphany, like chocolate coins, chocolates and candies Christmas theme. Still, discounts on dry fruits and regional food specialties related to Christmas or New Year.

We then move on to the drugs without a prescription and parafarmaci, which you can buy at the pharmacy, but also to the supermarket and drugstores. And it is here that you will find more discounts. “For us – says Adnkronos Salute Joseph Scioscia, president of the Federation of Italian drugstores – you can find it all year round discounts on average by 15% compared to the prices charged by traditional pharmacies.”

“Surely in this time of general balances – he continues – drugstores, some 4,700 in all of Italy, to be even closer to the citizen apply further reductions may be, for example, on orthopedic shoes (you get to drop 30-35 %), and on and on parafarmaci non-prescription medicines, especially those used to treat colds and flu: anti-fever, anti-inflammatory supplements that raise the immune system, an additional discount of 5%. lot of people also do not vaccinate against influenza and choose to treat themselves with natural products that we offer at favorable prices, especially in this period. It ‘s the time to do it. “

in the 100 corner of the Coop health you will find discounts on medications and parafarmaci, with the ‘package deals’ in January, is not closely related to the balances, but still affordable: 30 parafarmaci and a dozen medicines that will go on promotion with discounts up to 45% even in the first case, and an average of 15% in the second, whereas the starting price is already about 30% lower than that charged in pharmacy, refer to the Coop. This month, for example, you will find Buscopan and Buscofen -15%, -10% Borocillina, Mucosolvan -15%. As for the food, go-ahead to promotions on the products of the period to give the bottom of the inventories, although each cooperative will decide autonomously how and what to serve.