According to a survey conducted by InFact on behalf of the Norwegian newspaper Nations, 70% of Norwegians think that food prices have become too high. This also affects border traffic to Sweden.
This is a 30 percentage point increase from a similar survey conducted across nations in 2019. Only 20% of respondents in Norway said the prices were right.
In Norway, one gets the impression that there is not a price war, but rather price diplomacy among grocers, writes nations.
Since January 2022, food prices have risen sharply across Europe, mainly due to the war in Ukraine, NTB news agency reports.
Cross-border trade: The price difference between Norway and Sweden remains large
Norwegian Ole Jørgen Lind, shop manager at Maximat Nordby, believes that cross-border trade is more extensive today than it was before the coronavirus pandemic.
“We saw a big change in July after supermarket chains raised their prices,” he told the newspaper.
He believes that the price difference between Norway and Sweden is still large.
“We’re assuming it’s 45 percent. Put simply, in Sweden you pay half the price,” Lind explained.
