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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Miranda Bryant in Stockholm

Swedish shoppers boycott supermarkets over ‘runaway’ food prices

A lone shopper in a Swedish supermarket
A quiet aisle at Willys in Motala, Sweden, during last week’s seven-day boycott. Photograph: Jeppe Gustafsson/Rex/Shutterstock

Marcel Demir was not impressed. The Swedish student had been monitoring the price of chocolate and crisps and had noticed that both had gone up astronomically.

“Absolutely, prices have gone up,” he said, standing outside a branch of Sweden’s grocery store chain Coop in Stockholm Central train station. “I usually buy crisps and chocolate and they’ve gone up a lot. Chocolate recently. Crisps over the last year.”

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