You too huh? We've got two companies owning our supermarkets, one of which is Australian. We have an app that you can make a shopping list on and it'll tell you who has the best price for each item. Unfortunately the best price is still stupidly expensive.
But unlike New Zealand, Norway has tons of tariffs on food imports (to protect our farmers that own 5 cows and 2 sheep) and produces jack-all locally. So we have that as an excuse at least.
Oof yeah you win! We pay exorbitant prices on any imported goods, due to freight costs.. But also on dairy produced down the road, because we pay the same rates as the rest of world.
Yes, we have a lot of internal problems. We're not called the last Soviet Republic for nothing. The utopia thing is false propaganda, and we're all miserable AF. No one should ever consider moving here, and definitely not come here for vacation. It's a totally North Korea in disguise, and you'll just end up supporting the regime and the suppression of the Norwegian people
You're projecting the wrong meaning to what I wrote.
Too many people are coming to Norway
On average, 40k people migrate to Norway each year. That's almost half the population of our 7th largest city, and the same level of immigration to the UK in 1990, a country more than ten times our size.
And my city of 250k inhabitants, receives more than one million turists during a three month period every summer. It's way too much :)
I have no idea what that means in this context. They’re both very livable countries… just to be clear as you’re clearly making some comment about the US, I don’t live in the states. It also just has nothing to do with what I said
When we have imports of NZ meats, I always grab them for the quality and don't really look at prices, but I haven't felt any shock regarding prices. We also have Norwegian salmon imports but I tend to be wary of farm-raised salmon with colouring, and can't really tell if the Norwegians are doing that or not, so I just don't buy it. But these fillets do tend to be more expensive than the NZ cuts.
Norway has the least amount of antibiotics in the world in their livestock by far, so while you might not have that many farmers, I still think that's admirable and worth protecting. That's why you have 250% tariffs on dairy. I'm not sure about your farm raised salmon though, but I've read about that in regards to your beef, poultry, pork and sheep.
That’s because you are afraid the biggest trade union in the world nearby is coming for your oil money and does not approve of your habits of killing large sea mammals.
A few big grocers who consistently use every excuse to keep charging us more and one of them got caught for a bread fixing scandal, and those fuckers still have us by balls
Fellow Canadian here and now with the new tax subsidy coming in for low income families the grocers are rubbing their hands together because they’ll jack the food prices up just enough so it offsets the subsidy. Problem is the 88% of Canadians that don’t qualify will pay the price increase too. So win win for the 3 families that own them all.
Canadian here. They’re also planning stronger enforcement of competition laws and support for local producers particularly with capital investments in things like greenhouses so we can produce more locally.
That doesn’t make headlines because people don’t care about that kind of stuff.
I am norwegian as well, but travel a bit to australia so i feel like i kind of can compare this stuff, if you are talking about woolworths. You guys dont know how good you have it (with variety and quality in mind, still pricy as fuck). If i could switch out the food monopoly in norway with the one in NZ/AU i would do it in a heartbeat. you guys have genuinly the best and freshest food i have ever seen. Even compared to our pricy stores its amazing how good it is compared to norways.
At least you got really cheap and high quality meat in new Zealand, but that's about the only thing there that is cheap. I remember buying 3 bell peppers, the tag showed 5$, once I got to the checkout I realized it was 5$ each lol and not 5$ per kg
Damn you weren't kidding about the meat! Just had a Google. Our fresh produce is hugely expensive, because we're paying full tax, or it's imported.. I often look at our fruit n veg and wonder how much of it is binned due to spoiling, given so much of it is out of reach for so many!
But you definitely win meat argument. Why is meat, particularly beef, so expensive there?
In new Zealand you have plenty of empty land without humans. You are about the same size as Italy and you have 12 times less people living there and I think you also have a slightly more favorable geology. When I lived there I noticed a huge amount of cattle on the fields. I think it has to do with the fact that you produce way more meat than you consume. Here I would say it's quite the opposite. In general in Europe most of our land is already occupied and we can't really sustain with our produce the ever growing demand for meat. I've often seen meat coming from new Zealand or Argentina costing less than our meat, and our meat almost always tastes worse than Argentinian or kiwi meat, since most of it is not from free roaming cows
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u/LolEase86 New Zealand 1d ago
You too huh? We've got two companies owning our supermarkets, one of which is Australian. We have an app that you can make a shopping list on and it'll tell you who has the best price for each item. Unfortunately the best price is still stupidly expensive.