Comments on: A silent cartel protecting Sweden’s sacred cows?

By: Sweden Traveller

Sweden Traveller — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:19:29 +0000

Maybe depends where you live as to what people are buying and also what time of day / day of week you visit “System”? I often see people buying expensive wines there.

Someone from Malm� tells me that the System there is full of Danes who come over to get the expensive/quality wines because they are cheaper than in Denmark. Netto in Copenhagen on the other hand is full of Swedes filling up their Volvos with Carlsberg

By: Jock

Jock — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:07:04 +0000

Sweden’s state monopolies are a farce. Systemet is a prime example: overpriced, restricted opening hours, with a dreadfully limited stock range. Outside major population centres, its range is even worse and it can take up to ten days for specific orders to reach its ombuds. Why on earth can’t you simply pop down to the supermarket to buy a bottle of wine on a Saturday afternoon (or, heaven forbid, a Sunday!!!) – for example, if an unexpected guest arrives? What is the threat in that? Lagom gone mad. In reality, it’s another facet of Sweden’s Stasi-like, population control – a number from birth to death and everything in between. God knows what Swedes must think when they visit other countries. Faced with such freedom of choice, and independent, individual decision making, do they have breakdowns? Can they cope when given such self-responsibility? And…. all without the need for a number! That Sweden should be in line for the (albeit shared) presidency of the EU is outrageous nonsense. It has consistently breached EU free market policies, requiring special exemptions on an ongoing and, seemingly, never-ending basis. It is time it was coerced by its EU neighbours, including the EU Court and Parliament, into accepting its responsibilities under EU law. Sweden’s state monopolies should simply be scrapped.

By: HairySwede

HairySwede — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:10:48 +0000

its swedens version of opec.

By: wvhillbilly

wvhillbilly — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:39:35 +0000

I have a one-word explanation for what motivates monopolies to do what they do:

GREED!

By: Keith Surtees

Keith Surtees — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:17:59 +0000

The under-handed way in which Mark Majzner has been treated is a typical situation wheerby a group of seemingly separate associations act in unison to block a business or even alternative opinion. We have lived in Sweden for ten years now operating our very small business and have seen this type of behaviour on numerous occasions. One needs to understand that Swden has many sacred cows and that these sacred cows are indoctrinated so deep into all Swedes that they have no clue that it is a very skilful mind-program that tends to provide them with all their so-called liberal opinions. If you want to do something a littel different in Sweden you take a big chance, the sacred cows have guards and soldiers to protect them…My advice is never to underestimate the power of 70 years of social, political and cultural steering.