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Today, Friday 25th of November, the biggest Apple Store in Spain in the shopping center La Cañada is finally open. The Apple Store Marbella opened with some long queues and the store was busy during the whole day. They were expecting 4.000 – 5.000 people on the first day. The Apple Store opened exactly on black friday, which is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. That’s why the Apple Store had many good offers and probably sold quite a lot on their first day. If you hurry up you can still get some good offers until the day ends at 10pm.  Read more »

Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (“Textile Design Industries”) or more commonly known as Inditex, is a large Spanish corporation and world’s largest fashion group. The founder and current chairman of Inditex is Amancio Ortega, Spain’s richest man and the world’s 7th richest man. Inditex runs more than 5,000 stores worldwide and owns brands like Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius, Zara Home, Tempe and Uterqüe. Since September 6th all Inditex chain stores will be online. This means a further 15 countries in Europe will be able to purchase from the largest clothing chain in Spain. Deliveries will be available not only in Spain but also in the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Poland, and Portugal.  Read more »

If you have children you are always worried something could happen or they just get lost. Telttoo had an idea for decals, that can be customised with important information to the person wearing it and the person applying it. So you can have a decal with information such as telephone numbers and other contact details or even allergies and dietary requirements, identification, etc. At the beach, summer camps, fairs, amusement parks, school trips, shopping centres, children parties and in all those ocassions where your loved ones are not with you. With Telttoo you can be safer and easily contactable in an easy, convenient and fun way.

Telttoo was born from the need of parents to feel safer by knowing that in case of any problem, their children, with a simple gesture of pointing at their Telttoo, can ask for help and their parents can be contacted quickly on their mobile phone.

Telttoo is also very useful for other groups of people, such as elderly, ill or disabled, providing confidence and security to their family and themselves.

Telttoo is sold in templates of 45 decals for a price of 19.90 Euro at telttoo.com/en. All you need to do is cut them and apply them with water and you will feel much safer.

The winter sales period does not officially start in Southern Spain until January 7th, but with times being as hard as they are, shops have decided to bring forward and extend this scheduled event.

While local traders are not actually allowed to use the term “rebajas” until January, many shop windows are covered with signs announcing “special” offers or 50% discount.

I always used to panic around January sales time because I never had any money left over from the finance drain that is Christmas for new things, so I for one think this is a fabulous idea. I still have quite a few Christmas presents to buy – and of course, everyone loves a bargain!

Hard to believe? Read on.

Nope, this isn’t a clever marketing ploy involving coupons or “advantage” points to get you to consume more – it’s actually true.

Well, that’s according to a recent study carried out in June this year by the Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU) The study showed that shoppers buying usual household goods and foods can save more than 1,300 euros a year, just by changing their shopping outlet. However, that’s not all – in some major cities the possible savings are even greater (such as in Madrid) where the price gap between the cheapest and most expensive stores is so wide and quite shocking that shoppers in these areas could pay 3,200 euros less by buying at the bargain outlets! Read more »