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Norway triples support for farmers

Norway's heavily subsidized agriculture industry has received its biggest boost in years. Farmers will be getting an additional NOK 3.66 billion worth of taxpayer...

Swedish tax cut on food lures Norwegians

Traffic over the border from Norway to Sweden is likely to increase after Swedish authorities decided to cut tax on food sold in grocery...

Norway’s tariffs keep food prices high

Norwegians continue to face among the highest food prices in the world, and they keep going up at the grocery store. It's been a...

Grocery chains called in for a grilling

Trade Minister Cecilie Myrseth of the Labour Party has called in officials from Norway's grocery business once again, after food prices jumped again in...

Food prices rise again as grocery giant expands into pharmacies

Norway's already-high food prices have risen even more, by another 4.4 percent just last month. Meanwhile the consistently profitable grocery- and distribution conglomerate NorgesGruppen,...

Norway’s high food prices spark debate, but not its high tariffs on imports

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's notoriously high food prices are higher than ever, and that's led to another round of political debate this spring. Food price...

Lots of empty shelves at grocery stores

Norway's notoriously expensive grocery stores were frustrating customers once again this week. Many shelves are suddenly bare all over the country, a sharp contrast...

Grocery stores drop ‘price hunters’

Two of Norway's largest grocery store companies, NorgesGruppen and REMA1000, have stopped sending prisjegere (literally, price-hunters) into each other's stores to check and record...

Grocery giants hit with huge fines

The Norwegian Competition Authority has finally cracked down on the highly profitable companies that control 95 percent of Norway's notoriously high-priced grocery stores. Rema,...

Food price hikes outpace inflation

Norway is known for high food prices, but now they've risen to shocking levels despite (or because of) large government subsidies to Norwegian farmers...
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