Of love and money: the business of Valentine's day
Valentine's Day in the 19th century became an opportunity for love and consumption to form a perfect combination. The lovers celebrate their love, and the shops celebrated their sales of cards, flowers. sweets, etcetera. In another place are the dinners, go to hotels, plan small escapades. February 14 has become a key date as the Christmas, or rebates. Although the economy of the Ecuadorian is not the best at the moment, the binomial of the fall of prices and the already ingrained habit between the people of celebrating the love next to a present, will cause that the sales soar a year more. Another industry that makes its August on this date so signaled is the one that concerns contraceptive methods. According to a famous brand of condoms, sales of condoms during the month of February increased by around 20%.
There are several publications that say that if there is a month in which the pharmacological industry should be prepared and have a good stock of pregnancy tests, that is March. The increase in sexual relations, in many cases without protection, that occur during Valentine's Day seem to have direct consequences on the birth rate. Any delay in the arrival of menstruation after consummating a relationship without contraceptives in the first month after Valentine's Day blows up all the alarms. The next video shows a little more about valentine's day and the impact on the economy:
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