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.
If you need to go to a specific store to get beer with quite limited opening hours, you’ll probably get some extra just in case.
Hardly abusive, some go on sale and others I would have for guests. I have prosecco in the fridge for 7 months and a couple whiskeys that were a good price and then some random bits for cocktails if the mood ever does take me.
If I bought everything as I needed it I would have really expensive nights in or missed opportunities.
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
It’s a lot more complicated and not based on pure ethanol, but on liters of the product and alcohol percentage, with tax varying from 3,64-23,68 NOK per liter. One basic beer in the shop costs from 40 and up, while it starts at just over 100 in bars.
it’s apparently a lot more complicated here as well, i was just assuming the rate for pure ethanol was universal but it’s not.