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Supermarket roof caves in under weight of snow

National: 1 Mar 10
A roof collapse at an Ica Maxi supermarket in Kristinehamn in western Sweden has left staff and customers in shock but miraculously no one is reported to have been injured. READ »

Thieves open fire in Södertälje supermarket

National: 1 Mar 10
Police are searching for four armed robbers who opened fire with a hand gun and a rifle during a supermarket robbery on Saturday in Södertälje, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm. READ »

Swedish grocers' earnings outstrip CEOs

Business & Money: 1 Oct 09
The most successful franchisees of the Swedish grocery store chain ICA are coining in more remuneration than many CEOs of large companies listed on the Swedish stock market. READ »

Guilty verdicts in ICA meat cheat scandal

Business & Money: 10 Jun 09
Two employees from an ICA Maxi grocery store in Nacka outside of Stockholm have been convicted for repackaging out-of-date meat and putting it back on store shelves. READ »

Security police probe Södertälje fires

National: 26 Feb 09
Sweden's security police (Säpo) have been called in to investigate a connection between a wave of arson attacks in Södertälje with a US-hostile extreme left wing group. READ »

Swedish supermarket ends sales of 'sexy' child bra

Society: 14 Feb 09
Swedish supermarket chain Ica has announced that it is to stop selling bras for 7-year-olds in its Ica Maxi stores in response to customer protests. READ »

Mystery lottery winner found

Society: 14 Jan 09
Members of a family from Skåne in southern Sweden couldn't believe their luck this week when they returned home from a winter holiday to find they had won the lottery jackpot of more than 110 million kronor ($13.5 million). READ »

Arson suspected after Södertälje blazes

National: 12 Jan 09
Police in Södertälje have launched an arson investigation following two suspicious fires which broke out in the city early Monday morning. READ »

Swedish police inspector sacked for stealing PC

National: 9 Dec 08
A police inspector in Enköping in central Sweden has been sacked for stealing a notebook PC and a computer game from a department store in the town. READ »

Criminal charges for ICA meat labelling scandal

National: 7 Oct 08
Public prosecutor Solveig Sörlien will file formal charges against an ICA grocery store in the Stockholm suburb of Nacka for relabeling outdated packages of mince meat and putting them back on store shelves. READ »

Wal-Mart eyes Sweden

Business & Money: 23 Sep 08
US retailing giant Wal-Mart is in talks about opening a store in Sundsvall in northern Sweden, officials from the city report. READ »

Vegan finds dead mouse in bag of tortilla chips

National: 14 Mar 08
Feeling hair in her mouth, a 16-year-old vegan discovered a mouse cadaver in her bag of tortilla chips. READ »

ICA beats meat retreat

National: 7 Dec 07
ICA has begun taking steps to undo some of the damage caused by a recent repackaging scandal. READ »

Criminal investigation over ICA meat cheats

National: 6 Dec 07
Prosecutors have started a criminal investigation following revelations that supermarkets repackaged out-of-date meat and put it back on the shelves. READ »

Councils report ICA meat cheats

National: 6 Dec 07
Four local councils have announced plans to report supermarket chain ICA to the police. READ »

Shop workers strike called for April 5th

Politics: 26 Mar 07
The Commercial Employees Union has called for a complete stoppage at 94 workplaces around the country. 6,000 employees across the country will be called out of work. READ »

Swedes give cut-price stores low marks

National: 27 Nov 06
Cut-price supermarkets such as Netto and Lidl get low marks from Swedish consumers, who prefer traditional retail giants. Customers of Apoteket and Systembolaget would like to see the back of the monopolies. READ »

ICA reports profit surge

Business & Money: 15 Aug 06
Swedish grocer ICA reported a second quarter after-tax profit of 520 million kronor on Tuesday - a 98 million kronor lift from the same period last year. READ »

Securitas guard robbed in Södertälje

National: 10 Aug 06
Securitas guards were robbed by two armed men on Thursday afternoon outside a supermarket in Södertälje, near Stockholm. The attack took place in the same spot as a similar robbery in March. READ »

Security van robbed in Södertälje

National: 2 Mar 06
A security van has been robbed by masked men armed with axes outside a supermarket in Södertälje. We don't know if they made away with any money, say police. READ »

Police hunt security vehicle axe attacker

National: 13 Feb 06
A security vehicle was robbed on Monday morning in Hallunda, south west of Stockholm, apparently by one man with an axe. The attack comes on the same day as the verdict in the trial of the previous Hallunda security vehicle robbers. READ »

Gunmen rob security vehicle

National: 8 Feb 06
Once again, a cash transport vehicle has been raided by armed gunmen. This time it was in Uppsala and police say that shots were fired before the men made their getaway. READ »

Government defiant over EU Apoteket ruling

National: 1 Jun 05
Government minister, Ylva Johansson, comes out with all guns blazing after the European Court appeared to rule state pharmacist Apoteket an illegal monopoly. Not so, she says: re-write a few contracts, bring in some new rules and it'll be business as usual. READ »


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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

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Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.


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