So, are you allowed to buy alcohol outside a state monopoly store in your country, or do you also live in civilization?
by boomerintown
So, are you allowed to buy alcohol outside a state monopoly store in your country, or do you also live in civilization?
by boomerintown
49 comments
It is with us as it is with you, brother mine.
Imagine not being able to buy booze basically everywhere. How do you survive?
This is the way. Well up to 8 % outside state monopoly.
It’s a state monopoly. Pakistans monopoly to be more precise.
This sucks so much for you. Just bought a bottle of Rum and a sixpack of beer at my local Lidl for 9€.
Keep coping 😉
Swedes socializing and smiling? That’s the true weird thing
Being able to do buy alcohol anywhere in germany is the equivalent to the second amendment of the yanks. Couldn‘t imagine living without it
Here you can only buy strong alcohol in special stores (slijterij), but they aren’t state-owned. Whenever I need cheap vodka for something I buy it in Germany since there they just sell it at Lidl for Lidl prices
Tbf. The Swedish liquor stores don’t suck.
Bwhahahahahaha!
Wait…
Hahahahahahahahaha!
I’m French. Of course I can buy alcohol anytime, anyplace, anywhere !
We have no state. It helps.
What kind of savage nonsense is this?
10/10 ragebait. A+++, would rile up the Germans and the Danes again!
No, I live in a country that treats Alcoholism as one part of the Holy Trinity, Xenophobia and General Rudeness being the other two
Which type of wine goes best with rotten fish and hot dogs?
I think I’ve got five 24hr shops that sell alcohol within 20 minutes walk of me.
I knew OP was Swedish before even checking the flair.
As an Italian going to Sweden and not finding a wine section in your normal store made me feel like I was in alternative reality.
This system has a few pluses tho, for example I reckon you can request the most exotic beverage without having to travel to different stores, don’t know about prices tho, in Italy alcohol is very cheap.
lolololol
Love not having drunktards in the grocery store.
You guys can not buy alcool at the gas station?!
Life is really miserable out there!
I’m pretty sure people would start a riot if someone even proposed this.
You all get the civilized part wrong: That just means they know how to make moonshine just using an empty can and tree bark.
Alcohol in state monopoly stores? Where do you live OP? In Transnistria or some other left over of the Soviet Union?
Heavily taxed expensive alcohol gang
We are apperantly not to be trusted with alcohol
Imagine if alcohol had been available any time we wanted it, in our solitude during those long winter nights.
We’d be Finns, sweetie darling.
Just checked : got about 50 places willing to deliver alcohol to my house at a click of a button.
We are a civilised country, hence we can allow people to buy alcohol everywhere because they won’t end up at the hospital after trashing the place and beating their wives.
We can buy it everywhere, all the time during opening hours, it’s part of our culture and only some 70.000 people per year die from it. Plus a few million addicts.
I prefer to buy my wine directly from the wine grower. We even have places where you can buy wine in old sheds with a money box on honesty basis. I don’t want the state to tell me what wine I can buy. I don’t even like to buy at the supermarket because it’s too monopolistic. I prefer the direct marketing.
I can even get alcohol from any random kiosk when I go to buy cigs.
Isn’t it just Swedishstan that has state controlled alcoholism?
The most well run store in Europe.
Ofc we are, and you know it. Swedes come over here to drink all the time
If that’s civilization, give me all the barbarians
Rare Barry W
I don’t care too much about this, although i know for a fact the frogs would hate it. The very first thing that striked me the most about France was the INMENSE size of the alcohol aisles on supermarkets… not even close to what i was used to even on the biggest supermarkets in Spain. The exception being those close to the border with France of course… the ones on Bielsa have all the alcohol on display next the windows facing the road, you can see the endless rows of wine from afar. Perfect bait for a frenchman’s cash.
Thinking better… maybe they would love it, having a big shop full to the brim with just alcohol.
Yes and no.
Yes – we can buy beer and other low % stuff from grocery stores.
No – wine, hard liquor (and such) needs to be bought from state monopoly.
Haha, imagine not having 300 different domestic wines in every supermercado
This is a bad take. New Hampshire in the United States has state controlled booze. As someone who lived there I promise all of you, you wouldn’t consider those beasts as civilized.
Here they set some limits, like you can’t get alcohol in certain cantons after 22h
But we can get a shitload in the afternoon and waste us anyway
I can buy it everywhere and I don’t have to sell an organ to buy it
We buy our booze in a traditional British Aldi or Lidl!
Here are some places I can legally buy booze:
An off-licence
A pub
A bar
A newsagent
A supermarket
A petrol station
A tent at a village fair
A National Trust gift shop
As a Belgian I have yet to find a supermarket without at least 1 aisle for beer and spirits and 1 for wine and champagne
I’m gonna be honest, walking into a grocery store and not having half of it be filled with alcohol is kinda nice. The con is having to go to a store where a beer cost 3-4 times as much as the same beer costs in a german store.
The fact that Systembolaget is the biggest purchaser of alcohol in Europe and that i can get rare whiskey and wines from one supplier tells me that i dont care if i can buy cheap brands everywhere.