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Billionaire grocery chain founder laid to rest at the cathedral in Oslo

UPDATED: Stein Erik Hagen revolutionized the Norwegian grocery business with the first "low-priced" RIMI chain in 1977, and went on to become one of...

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,...

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...

Food price hikes fuel inflation

Norway is known for its high food prices, and now they're even higher than usual. New figures show an overall price hike of 13.7...

Norwegians face even higher prices

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's notoriously high prices at the grocery store rose yet again from February 1, and state officials have been busy scolding the country's...

Norway’s ‘Word of the Year’ reflects hidden inflation

The Norwegians have come up with a word that describes how food producers disguise more inflation by putting less bacon or lefse rolls, for...

Food prices up 4.5 percent

Norway's state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) has recorded the biggest monthly price hike for food in more than 40 years. The cost of...
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