(edit title) How many years left for Systembolaget. Discuss..... Options

[Andrew Robertson]

I lived in Sweden in 1997-98 and people were saying then that it'll be gone by 2000. Went back in July and yeah baby....doing as brisk a trade as ever!

What say ye all?

Andrew x.

[Eyallow]

Its already dead from my point of view. Get my stuff from denmark!

[Andrew Robertson]

Yes... I read on the BBC that nearly 40% of all off-sales booze consumed in Skane is not purchased at Systemet. Also that number is around 25% averaged across the whole of Sweden. With the Baltic States and Poland in the EU now, booze cruises from Stockholm are much more realistic. Can Systemet survive? Do we want it to?

[*Ender Mark*]

Seven years is all,
at that time comes the fall.

2012 is coming soon,
at that date we meet our doom.

http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/

[Andrew Robertson]

Thanks for that.... A.

[Benzed]

I read that 40% of booze purchased in Sweden is illegally distilled moonshine!

Sweet.

[Gramacy Park]

I also read that 40% of booze purchased in Sweden is illegally distilled moonshine !

But I didn't read it until you posted it.

I also read that 60% of booze is benzene.

But I didn't read that until I wrote it.

[*Toronto 1*]

Everybody thought the LCBO (Liquor control board of Ontario) would meet an untimely death too. But guess what boys and girls, it is still the only place that you can legally buy from.It changed with the times. Newer stores, improved hours and better inventory of what you can buy. And it makes the Government of Ontario wheelbarrows full of money.
Lke I am talking in the billions of dollars in Canadian money. So do you think for a second the Swedish government will get rid of your liquor board. I don't think so. Also the LCBO is the largest buyer of alcohol in the world.

[Eciym]

If I am properly informed, Canada has a state controlled supplier and retailers have to buy from the goverment controlled wholesalers, leaving retail to the open market. That would be a better model here, unfortunately the EU wants a free market so any kind of monopoly I would assume is illegal (without an abstention) Systembolaget as we know it is finished, however it might well be possible to have it continue as a profit free organisation, it could even make donations to anywhere it wished (hosptials/charities/hospices) just so long as it doesnt make a profit, that would put it in a very competitive position.