Decrease in sales of USA goods in Swedish liquor monopoly (Swedish article)
Decrease in sales of USA goods in Swedish liquor monopoly (Swedish article)
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Ras för USA-varor på Systembolaget
It has effect! People are buying less American.
According to Systembolaget (the liquor monopoly of Sweden), there has been a drop in sales of American liquor by 17% this year. This is likely caused by boycotts after the tariffs introduced against Europe.
Long term, this may have an effect on which goods they buy in.
it is helped by the fact that systembolaget's labels include the country of origin since basically forever. i've been looking a lot more on the flags this year.
honestly, call me a socialist but i really enjoy the liquor monopoly. ...not the high alcohol tax or the fact that a beer that costs €1.3 including return at systemet costs €8 at a bar, but the fact that every single product is labeled by tasting experts with taste profile, charts comparing it to similar products, matching foods, country of origin etc.
Regarding the monopoly, I prefer the Finnish model of strong alcohol (recently increased to around >9-10%) are in the domain of the monopoly (Alko), while beers and weak wines can be bought in stores.
First of all, there's more friction to get stronger liqours. Especially when you don't need as many stores as a whole.
Second of all, it makes it less important to bunker alcohol. If you have a lot of alcohol at home you'll probably drink it.
People hoard alcohol? Is that a normal thing? It sounds like an alcohol abuse kind of thing.
With Norwegian eyes, you guys do not have a high alcohol tax.
yeah i know there are a lot of border shops. how much is it in norway? i think we have a tax of 500sek/l of pure ethanol