The Booksellers' Guild denounces the "poor functioning and violation of rules" of the school voucher program.

BarcelonaAfter detecting a sharp decline in the redemption of school vouchers in bookstores, the Booksellers' Guild denounces "the interference of large operators" and the use of the voucher "through e-commerce platforms," ​​along with "the increase in vouchers delivered to schools that are used to purchase from large distributors, ignoring local commerce." This is a violation of the regulations regarding the voucher. Specifically, it has found that large operators offer, through their websites, the possibility of redeeming the voucher and purchasing books remotely, with exclusively digital orders.

is targeted." For the guild, this situation "not only violates regulations, but also constitutes unfair competition that jeopardizes the viability of hundreds of bookstores that have made the effort to join the campaign and strictly comply with all legal requirements."

and forcefulness to immediately correct the status of affiliated establishment to operators that are not businesses." They also demand "suspending the use of the voucher through digital platforms and returning the public amounts received improperly."

The school voucher is an initiative of the Generalitat which provides all primary and secondary school students with a 60 euro voucher to exchange for school supplies such as books, writing instruments, stationery, dictionaries, calculators, backpacks and educational games. The campaign's objective is to guarantee educational equity for customers or to give it to educational centers so that the money can be used to jointly purchase school supplies for the school or institute.