Entrepreneurs crack Swedish 'System' in effort to allow free flow of alcoholBy David Ibison in Stockholm
Published: August 4 2008 03:00
Travel to a small town outside Stockholm and it is not unusual to see a discreetly parked van, back door open, offloading crates of beer and spirits to a throng of cash-paying customers.
The clientele are not shuffling drunks, but well turned out, middle class Swedes, prepared to break the law to bypass the high prices at Systembolaget, the state-owned alcohol monopoly, known by its Stalinist nickname "Systemet" - or "The System".
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