Historic Change in Alcohol Policy: Sweden's Overpriced State-Owned Liquor Stores Lose Monopoly

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For their bottle of beer, wine or spirits, Swedes no longer have to go exclusively to the state liquor store. After seventy years of state monopoly, twenty years of debate and three large-scale government investigations, small alcohol producers are now allowed to sell directly to the customer. "A historic mistake."