1- The Atocha store was the first store of what is now Salud Mediterránea. When Hugo and his wife Nancy started running it in the early 1980s, the establishment was called El Almacén de Tripas (The Tripe Warehouse ). Later it became Salud Madrid and then Salud Mediterránea.
2- In the Tripe Warehouse, they sold tripe for making sausages, spices, legumes, honey, pollen and more, all in bulk.
3-The shop had a 15m2 public area with a marble counter, a calculator with a roll of paper, a scale, and dried tripe hanging on the walls. Hugo increased the commercial space by knocking down the walls that formed the rooms of the house behind the shop.
4- The first "herbalist" product offered to customers of the Tripe Warehouse was Ynsadiet Soy Lecithin. Nobody wanted to buy it until it was put on sale because it was about to expire. The stock of 6 units lasted less than a week.
5- In the 1980s, Almacén de Tripas was awarded the title of Traditional Madrid Establishment by the Madrid City Council. At that time, the shop shared the street with a shoemaker and an official distributor of Olivetti, a typewriter company.
Mediterranean Health, Atocha, is located at Paseo Sta. María de la Cabeza 3.
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