On 1 May, the price of a number of goods at Vinmonopolet will be adjusted. Just under 5,000 items will be more expensive, while the price will be reduced by around 2,000, reports Vinmonopolet. Around 31,000 items will be cheaper or unchanged in price.
Vinmonopolet’s wholesalers and suppliers have the opportunity to adjust the price down every month, while they can only raise prices three times a year: 1 January, 1 May and 1 September.
Many of the 5,000 that are set up in price only small adjustments. For example, the popular Falling Feather becomes three kroner more expensive per bottle, and a bottle of cremant from Andre Delorme increases by two kroner.
One should not skimp on a couple of kroner, but it is still small change compared to, for example, a bottle of Faustion I Gran Reserva magnum bottle which goes up from 989.80 to 1799.90 kroner per bottle.
It is nevertheless worth noting: 548 items are marked up by more than 10 per cent in price.
The website Vinpuls has gone through the lists and found 463 wines that are priced at more than NOK 50. Does it apply to your favorite? The list can be found here.
The good news for those of you who tend to buy what’s on the shelves is that this only applies to six wines from the basic selection.
– Unusually low
If you think that the trip to Vinmonopolet has become significantly more expensive in recent years, you are absolutely right. Although Vinmonopolet does not set its own prices, pole prices have increased more than normal.
On 1 September last year, more than 900 wines increased in price by more than ten per cent, but the explosive price increase now seems to be slowing down. In January, the price increase was somewhat more moderate, and this trend continues.
– Price inflation is unusually low. This is probably related to increasing competition among wholesalers in a declining market, Vinmonopolet writes in a press release.
– Furthermore, there is lower price growth internationally for input factors such as glass, cardboard and transport; this also contributes to lower price growth than normal.
Wait to buy these
As smart as it may be to take the chance to buy your favorite before it goes up in price, it is better to wait to buy items that are cheaper. Starting tomorrow. This applies to far more goods than those that go up in price.
You can save a hundred kroner or more on over 150 items.
You obviously save the most on the most expensive, but here you also have to spend the most. Fortunately for us with a slightly more sober alcohol budget, it’s not just the multi-hundred kroner pigs that become much cheaper.
For example, several of the biodynamic wines from Beck Bambule! down from around NOK 350 to NOK 250 per bottle, while Peter Lehmann Layers Red is reduced from NOK 250 to NOK 150.
Several of the wines that are put down are not to be found in many Poles, but can be found online.
The Cinderella Clock
The price change takes place around midnight, so you have until Vinmonopolet closes if you want to shop physically in store, while you can shop at the old price online until the clock strikes twelve.
– The price that comes up in the online store when you order is the price you pay, says Trond Erling Pettersen, head of merchandise and trade at Vinmonopolet, to DinSide.
