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07/11/2013
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Campaign in August will encourage Internet users to stop buying more expensive product
Rio - On the wave of demonstrations 'born' on the web in June against high transport fares, users of social networks are mobilized to combat price considered abusive nationwide. The Facebook page "Not paid absurd price", for example, as reported yesterday Column Digital & Tal DAY, will propose in August a boycott establishments that charge expensive. Products like milk, soft drinks, vegetables and medicines are in the crosshairs of consumers turn to the internet to complain.
For retiree Sidney, high values are a 'violence' to the consumer. He ends up choosing low quality items priced more baixoEsse type of project gains momentum and, according to experts, companies that do not pay attention will suffer concussions. Brazilians outraged by high values of products and services focus on the social networks to take action out of them. In "Not paid absurd price" (http://goo.gl/aDlTU), which has mobilized nearly 900 users, the goal is to report what is expensive and make brands lose customers.
"He's spending time worrying about corporate virtual protests," said Danilo Corci, one of the creators of the boycott SP (http://boicotasp.com.br), highlighting abusive prices and will arrive in Rio later this month. "At first, it is a relief to the contacts in the networks, but the trend is that the effect comes in the pockets of entrepreneurs."
Consumers are outraged. "People take low quality products because the value is lower," says retired Sidney Ferreira, 81 years. The student Paula Beth, 19, spread through the network items that you use to wash your hair jumped from $ 10 to more than R $ 20. Both switched brands due to the high prices.
The teacher Jurema Alves, 65, paid R $ 10.85 for a can of powdered milk. "I went to buy another R $ 7.68." Potatoes, tomatoes, soda, medicine and many others joined the list of 'enough'.
"Communication is many to many. We must listen to the voices of the web, "says Marcio Goncalves, specialist in digital media.
Cost of living in Rio de Janeiro is the second largest
Rio was rated as the second most expensive city in the country to live. This ranking is the result of the Cost of Living, collaborative website that gathers prices for housing, food, supermarket and transportation, among others. There are more than 1,700 municipalities in Brazil that had the data disclosed.
Today, more than 22 thousand people update the values. "The information we do see the actual cost of living," says Lucas Franco, 25, creator of the site.
Source: The Day - Online
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