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« on: Friday, March 18, 2016, 06:18:44 AM »
Our country's alcohol politics is maybe one of the most fucked up ones in world wide lol. The state owns a monopoly what comes to selling stronger stuff than 4,7%, so basically you can buy real beers, wines and booze only from one company's shops, wines and stronger beers can't be released to be sold in grocery stores or microbreweries are not allowed to sell their own products because it would be too easy for citizens to buy the stuff and they would become alcoholics. Yet those stores from where you can buy stronger stuff are always next to basic grocery store. So the key to avoid alcohol problems here is to keep a wall between groceries and booze and of course they need to have different cashiers. If the wall would be removed and those cashiers would be merged, would the whole country become alcoholic......
In here you can't buy alcohol from stores before 9am or after 9pm. Now I saw a article which said that this store owned by the state of Finland will release online store from whic is open 24/7 and from where you can buy booze easier, another company owned by the state will deliver the product to your door. The whole alcohol law is made to protect the fucked up monopoly the state has. And besides the monopoly, we also have high taxes in alcohol and also high VAT. Shops are not allowed to set sale prices for beers, they are forced to sell the product by it's single piece price, so when one 0,33l can of beer costs 0,99€ will 24case cost 24x0,99€ = 23,76€. It's so fucked up that our government believes ( read: claims to protect the monopoly ) that alcoholism in Finland is a result of availability of alcohol. Some of the congressmen has spoke about taking beers out from grocery stores to be sold in this monopoly shop. Could it be that alcoholism in here is a result of outcasting, loneliness, despair, depression and the high level of unemployment...