Whilst researching the benefits of purchasing consumer discount vouchers during the recent offer, introduced as an initiative to encourage purchases in local shops, with 320,000 euros provided by the Orihuela council and the Alicante Provincial Council, of the almost 200 participating companies, I counted just 3 situated on the Orihuela Costa, that are listed on the promotional website promoting the discounted vouchers.
The campaign, which is put together with the collaboration of FACPYME, the organisation that promotes companies and associations from the province of Alicante in order to support, stimulating and coordinating their commercial activity, has quite clearly failed the many small businesses and shopkeepers situated in Orihuela Costa.
In order to take advantage of the discounts offered, you will have to take your trade to Orihuela City.
And to add salt to the wounds, a further 400,000 euro promotion, paid for by the Alicante Provincial Council, will be launched in December, which the organisers say will provide a boost to the Orihuela Christmas campaign for all municipal small businesses, other than those of us who are on the coast.
The Leader asked for a comment by the Councillor for Commerce, Vicente Pina Lopez, but still awaits a response.
