Sms consumers, trend positive

Rome - The numbers speak clear: the Sms service consumers works and appeals to the citizens. Satisfied one and convinced are much that it must be continued on the road of a greater and better information of the consumers, thus that can always make chosen of purchase aware ". The comment of the minister of the alimentary and forest agricultural policies Luca Zaia has been this, introducing the result, elaborated on the www.smsconsumatori.it portal, of the service promoted from the Mipaaf and realized in collaboration with the Associations of Consumers Federconsumatori, Adoc, Adusbef, Codacons, Acu, Adiconsum, Movement Consumers, Movement Defended of the Citizen and, after its recent adhesion, the National Union Consumers. Very the 243 thousand citizens who have sent a sms at least in order to know in real time the prices to the origin, of sale and wholesale, subdivided for geographic area, of one of the 84 products that compose the basket. Beyond a million and half, the number of sms sent free of charge to the 47947; 141.921 those in the first week of september, for a total of 66.655 total demands. The visits to the site Internet www.smsconsumatori.it have been instead 14,413, where they are available deepened information more and where it is possible, cliccando an appropriate one link, to make the expense virtual, that is to fill up the undercarriage and to obtain the indication than would have to be spold if the average prices were respected. The borsino of the expense instead, with diagrams and data, always available on the site, it indicates the price trend dawned weekly. “We are many satisfying of the answer of the consumers to the service, than evidently it contributes to inform in way effective express and the families that every day make the expense and that, in a open market like that one today, they have need to orient itself with greater facility in the processes of determination of the prices to the consumption. While it is discussed about as guaranteeing greater transparency in the processes of formation of the prices of many agricultural and food- products - it has continued Zaia - to inform the citizen-consumers, also on the places where to be able to acquire the producer directly or to buy latte to the thorn, it means to defend their purchasing power eventual speculations and to help them to choose produced of season, good quality and to the just price, to carry in table every day”.

10 / 09 / 2008