Effect crisis: Italians cut the food, but not the phone – Today

Effect crisis: Italians cut the food, but not the phone – Today

ROME - Magri, but always connected. In times of economic crisis Italians can do without a lunch structured, but not of a mobile phone connected to the Internet. And 'the photograph, taken by the Research Confcommercio, the mutation of spending guidelines in the beautiful country in the last eighteen years.

The total household expenditure for leisure, travel, vacation, telephony was worth 15, 3% in 1995, is now worth almost 18% despite the economic crisis. The decline of expenditure items 'traditional' as clothing, cars, furniture and furnishings from the families, '' is not merely the outcome of the crisis of the income, but also to new ways of living '', detects Confcommercio analyzing drivers of spending the Italians since 1995.

So '' classic items of higher value always attract consumers less negative impact on the volume of spending ''. While consumption grew by cultural services, restaurants, telephony.

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