February 13, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Lidl":
National: 14 Oct 11
Swedish police arrested 32 people in a raid on a food factory south of Stockholm on Thursday for violations of the Aliens Act.
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Business & Money: 15 Sep 11
Swedish consumers are choosing cheaper options in their weekly shop as the mounting eurozone debt crisis and fears of recession begin to bite.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 11
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, The Local reaches out to a few Swedes and Americans for their thoughts about the attacks and their impact.
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Sport: 13 Nov 10
Swedish tennis star Robin Söderling beat American eighth seed Andy Roddick to lead the way into the ATP Paris Masters semi-finals on Friday.
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National: 31 May 10
In a test of shopping baskets from grocery stores in Bollnäs in central Sweden, none of them passed standards for safe food handling.
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Sport: 27 Nov 09
Sweden's Henrik Stenson and Robert Karlsson produced a scintillating display of golf for the second day running on Friday to keep the country in strong contention for the World Cup title in China.
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Business & Money: 26 Jun 09
Scandinavian dairy producer Arla Foods faces more than 7 billion kronor ($900 million) in fines if the company is found to have breached laws ensuring fair competition.
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Business & Money: 24 Jun 09
Scandinavian dairy producer Arla Foods was engaged in a plan to “completely shut competing companies out of the market”, Swedish competition authorities allege.
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Society: 20 Jan 09
Stores from two separate grocery chains in Sweden have changed the country of origin displays for fruit imported from Israel.
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Science & Technology: 19 Jan 09
Fish products from unsustainable sources remain on sale in many Swedish retail outlets, a new report shows. "Unsustainable double standards", according to the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SNCC).
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National: 13 Nov 08
Discount German supermarket chain Lidl has issued an apology after workers at one of its Swedish stores deliberately poisoned discarded food in a bid to keep homeless people at bay.
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Business & Money: 23 Jun 08
Sweden’s consumer ombudsman (KO) has ruled that the Lidl grocery chain's marketing campaign is inappropriate because people must purchase alcohol to participate.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 08
Swedish home furnishing giant Ikea has been accused in Germany of illegal labour practices, including secretly filming its workers.
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National: 29 Mar 08
Three teenage girls robbed a Lidl store in Älmhult on Saturday. They assaulted a cashier and escaped with a sum of money.
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Lifestyle: 23 Nov 07
Looking for a way to while away the hours this weekend, or for something to do with visiting relatives? We've got some tips.
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National: 19 Oct 07
Two men have been arrested following an armed robbery on a secure cash delivery vehicle in Hedemora on Friday morning.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 07
First-quarter pre-tax profits at Swedish aviation and defence group Saab fell sharply due to increased costs. Orders and sales were up, the company's boss told reporters.
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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.
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National: 31 Jul 06
A man who killed his Australian partner and dismembered her body has had his life prison sentence confirmed by a Stockholm appeal court.
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Society: 13 Jul 06
If you're looking for cheap groceries, it doesn't matter which store you go to. Prices of low-price products at most supermarket chains are almost identical.
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National: 8 Jun 06
The 31 year old man who in March murdered his Australian partner, chopped her up and dumped her body parts in a lake in Sörmland, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
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National: 1 Jun 06
A man who killed his Australian partner giggled as he described the murder in court on Tuesday. "What I did was completely right," he said, and compared himself to a suicide bomber.
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National: 25 May 06
Pictures have been released showing a man who killed his Australian girlfriend in Stockholm buying the saw that he used to chop up her body. The couple's children were with him at the time.
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National: 27 Mar 06
Two branches of the Lidl supermarket chain are raided by armed robbers in the space of half an hour: one in Täby, north of Stockholm, and the other in Kortedala in Gothenburg.
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National: 17 Mar 06
A woman whose body parts were found in a lake south of Stockholm on Tuesday was an Australian living in Sweden, the embassy in Stockholm has confirmed.
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Business & Money: 5 Jan 06
Sales in the Swedish grocery sector increased in 2005 by 2.5%, to 211 billion kronor. Coop declined, while Lidl and Netto increased their market share significantly. But ICA is still the nation's grocer.
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Business & Money: 21 Nov 05
Swedes prefer to shop at the ICA supermarket chain, are satisfied with Apoteket, the state-run pharmacy, and think that Systembolaget has improved since last year. The best DIY store is Beijer.
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 05
Swedes continue to support the home team and nordic neighbours Nokia in the battle for mobile handset supremacy.
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Smörgåsbord: 8 Dec 04
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National: 11 Jun 04
The cost of eating falls and Stockholmers no longer need to pay more than their west coast cousins - but Swedes are still being ripped off.
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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 »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"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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