In Oslo malls close at 9pm, grocery stores at 11pm (few at 10pm) and other shops at about 7-8pm 😛 got to admit that hearing that shops in Norway closes at 4-6pm is almost alien to me 😂 I lived in a small town in England where that was the case, and I just never got used to it.
@@Brandofviti great. you can tell the girl on the video that. I never buy tickets either, i always use the app, but tourists often prefer to buy a travelling card/ticket so they don’t have to navigate the app. And this video was directed to the tourists. I’m happy we have that option here. My kids use this fill up bus card/ ticket too because they don’t have phones yet.
@@Penny1anewe have apps too, those cards are for people who buy for one month. A one trip ticket you don’t have to show. I live in the sentrum of Trondheim
Don't know where in Norway she lives, but these store hours don't match up with my area at all! And the national guidelines for the sale of alcoholic beverages is 8pm on weekdays and 6pm Saturdays. Above 4,7% is 6pm on weekdays and 3pm Saturdays (and only sold at Vinmonopolet). Public transportation is mostly payed by app these days 🙌 But your "ticket" does have to be activated when you get on, and the fines for riding without a valid ticket can be INSANE!! Taxis are sadly very, very expensive, and Uber is not allowed in Norway (due to laws surrounding taxi licenses) 😔. There is no need to buy bottled water at all in Norway like you might do in a lot of other European countries. Our water is soooo good! I sometimes buy water, mainly to have a lightwait bottle to refill and use for hikes ☺️
I'm glad Uber isn't allowed here, the company is horrible and the whole 'gig economy' idea in its entirety runs entirely contrary to Norwegian values. Proper terms, conditions and protections for workers here, you can't really have or enforce that with 'gig economy' business models. There's already been plenty of issues just to have staffing agencies (bemanningsbyrå) work half-decently within the context of our regulations.
You have to notice that STOREs here meaning is everything from Clothing store, Sport article stores etc that are seperate 1 store only in city centers, but in shopping mals they might be open to 8 or 9 in the evening. Groceries are independent from this. 7 to 23 = most common.
You know, your positive attitude, but not over the top, smiles and all that makes me keep coming back for more of your videos. It's all so down to earth and relaxing! Cheer mate!
Oh, he's certainly quite excessive. In fact, he is cultivating goodwill unlike any other, capitalizing on the eagerness of unsuspecting Norwegians longing to hear about their nation within an international context. He makes money from the typical profound inferiority complex that plagues the residents of insignificant nations.
@@TH-cam_Stole_My_Handle_Too If he had enough hits on his vids to make any money - you might have had a valid point. Alas you seemed so intent on impressing the readers with you vocabulary, that you simply forgot to notice the facts. I'm also pretty sure you'd struggle to find many Europeans suffering from "typical profound inferiority complex that plagues the residents of insignificant nations". Compared to what, America? China? Russia?
Hello. Have watched your videos for a while, and wonder when you will come to Norway, now you know more than us😊 The shops are open until 11 pm. Less densely populated areas probably close earlier. at 18 - 20. on Sundays it is closed, but there are 7 - 11, smaller shops and gas stations that are open on Sundays. something many of us appreciate. not everyone 😊 And as always, we are different like you. A little secret, I was born and raised in Norway, but haven't had skis on my legs since I was 10 - 12 years old, I don't miss it. don't tell anyone 😊
@@Datateknikeren Most shopping centers/malls in Oslo are open until 10 pm (like Storosenteret - the biggest one). So yeah, other stores close one hour earlier than most grocery stores.
@@monicabredenbekkskaar1612 Kiwi and extra are grocery stores and she is not talking about those kind of stores. Husfliden close at 17. Dressmann, Ark and Kid interiør close at 17 or 18 if they are not in some type of mall.
Most Norwegians use the apps for public transport, so I can understand tourists making mistakes with their tickets because they cannot just look at what we do, because we just walk in and sit down without doing anything, because we have done the ticket purchase through the app and there is no need for app users to do anything after purchasing our tickets.
She lives in Trondheim. I’ve seen her videoes before. The stores here do close around 16, 17 or 18, but we have a lot of small niche stores here. They sell things like art, books and clothes. It’s not grocery stores. Grocery stores are open to like 22 or 23
Yeah. She is obviously talking about shops for special goods in the city centers which close early, and not supermarkets and shopping centers which are often a little outside the city centre. I think it's like that in most cities.
As a person working in a store, I appreciate that stores close a bit early (it's about the same in Sweden as in Norway I think). And closing early in weekends, well, for example I get paid double in Sundays and it would be very expensive for the store to pay me double for late nights when almost no one is shopping.
"Stores close at 4"?? No that's not my experience in Norway. Grocery shops are generally open until 10pm, so called normal shops like book shops, clothes shops etc normally would close around 5pm unless it's in a shopping centre when it cold be 8 or so. Most shops closed on Sundays, something I think is fantastic as I hate shopping.
07:06 She has to be speaking about specialty stores or pharmacies and the likes, because grocery stores close between 8 pm to 11 pm, depending on the store, on week days, and then between 6 pm and 11 pm on Saturdays, with the few exceptions on Sundays being probably around the same closing times as Saturday.
Being borned and raised in Norway I wonder where she lives. Cause I lived just outside Bergen. And almost all stores are open until 7-9. Most supermarkets are open until between 9-11. Very few shops close before 6.
Where do you live? Most stores close around 5 where I live. Bit later on Thursdays. Earlier on Saturday. The exception is grocery stores. They are mostly open until 11 on the weekdays.
@@Popupkiller Just outside Bergen. And i do see that there are more people reacting to it. That they also have about the same closing hours as i am used to.
grocery shops and shopping malls are open longer, but the general idea is to give most people the evening and weekend off. If your opening hours are extended, when even permissible, you will need expensive staffing solutions with additional shifts. Mom-and-pop shops can’t afford that, nor is it really needed. People will confine their shopping to your busines hours. This holds true for alcohol as well, and keep in mind that there is a government monopoly on wine and liquor. If you suddenly need a drink late at night, you can always head for a restaurant, pub, bar or club. Oh, and Uber is outlawed. You need a taxi permit to transport people in exchange for money.
If you wish to drive a bus in Oslo, you can buy a travel card, and then you pay NOK 50 for it, you also get a card, which is similar to a bank card or visa card, and when you board the bus, there is a machine at the door, also just hold the card in front of you, then the cost of traveling by bus will be deducted from the card. You can top up this card with new NOK 50 at a number of places around the city.
Then remember, the opening hours are usually displayed on large signs, clise to the store name. Every time you go to the store, or drive past, you are reminded when they are open. Most stores ar closed Sundays, but there's an exception rule, permitting some stores to be open on Sundays, if somespecial conditions are met. It's not like you can't buy food on a Sunday, but you have to know where to go to to find the specific stores.
You need to scan that ticket, and I learned that the hard way.. I'm from the northern part of Norway and didn't know that when I went to Oslo, but I got away with a warning when I explained my situation 😅
Most stores are open until 5pm here and then it varies. Some days they are open until 6pm and in malls its common to be open until 7pm. Grocery stores that are not very rural are open until at least 9pm, but most these days are open until 10 or 11pm. The sale hours of alcohol (up to 4.7%) in grocery stores can vary as its the municipality that set these hours within some rules. Around here it closes at 8pm on weekdays, but on days before "red" days like Sundays and public holidays like Christmas day it will close at 6pm. So every Saturday its 6pm. Grocery stores that can be open on Sundays can only be up to 100 square meters (~1076 sq. ft) and 150 sq. meters for gas stations (~1614 sq. ft).
There are often alternatives when it comes to grocery stores. There are unmanned stores that are open 24/7, and it starts to be some of them, but a far from everywhere. Most of them are closed Sundays because of size restrictions. The grocery stores can’t be bigger than 100 square meters . That been said, it was made as a possibility from the time none grocery stores could be open on Sundays. Now, when more becomes digital and stores are unmanned, and with full self service, it will soon be small grocery stores all over the country, and the 100 square-meters restrictions will be taken away for unmanned stores. But until then only small grocery stores will be open on Sundays. Expect from in the summertime when all grocery stores are open if the place are defined as an official tourist destination.
Most stores don't close befor 20:00 (8pm) on weekends, often 21 or 22. In my neighborhood I even have one store open until 23 (11pm) every day, even Sunday. Before some spacial days, they close early. Alcohol isn't sold on Sunday, and usually stop at 20:00, or earlier depending on local regulations. Saturday and days before religious holidays alcohol usually stop at 18, These are mostly left for local regulations, but there are some national guidelines as well. Alcohol served at restaurants and bars, are subject to other rules. But they are served in glass or opened bottle. To sell sealed bottles, they would need a alcohol license for stores (there's a different license for bars/restaurants).
Stores that aren't grocery stores, like those selling clothes etc, usually close at between 4pm or 6pm. Grocery stores be up until at least between 9pm and 11pm. Only a few of them are open on Sundays, while like 99% of everything else be closed aside of gas stations and 7-11 tho they don't sell things like milk, bread, dinners etc. They got water, soda, energy drinks, snacks like chips, chocolate etc, and some sandwiches, buns, warmed up hotdogs etc. Oh and yea, they are extremely expensive too haha. Last time I was at 7-11, a 250g chocolate bar was like 50kr or so, aka about 5 USD.
4-5 and 6 closing times are drug stores, clothing stores and the like. The normal grocery store is 11-12 at night in the cities, 10-11 at night at more remote locations
02:37 In Norway you can buy these bus passes that come in a visa card-like card, once you have it, you can fill it up with money similar to how you can deposit money into your bank account, only that this money will purely be available for any public transport that accept the cards. When you have one of the cards, you are supposed to hold it up against a scanner device, the same as you do with tap-less payment for cards of when you pay with your phone against card readers, etc. But I suspect she's saying that a lot - or some - of the tourists or foreigners think all you have to do is buy the card, fill it up with money, and you're set to go sit down in a seat without anything more to it, forgetting - or not knowing - that they have to actually scan the card so it can charge them for a ticket.
1, tickets: you buy a ticket and as long as the ticket is valid, you can use it several times. 2. Stores: grocery stores are normally open until 22.00 or 23.00, but supermarkets with different stores normally closes at 20.00, but smaller stores downtown closes normally 16.00 most days and 19.00 one day a week. Alcohol is like this woman say. Sundays most stores are closed.
The opening hours of grocery stores is incorrect. Most grocery stores are open between 07:00-23:00. Some close a bit earlier like 21:00 or 22:00 aspecially in less populated aereas. Most stores are closed on sundays, but some stores are allowed to be open, but only a smaller section of the store and with less options to choose from. Other stores like clothing stores, book stores etc are usually open between 10:00-21:00 and closes earlier on Saturdays. Closed on Sundays. The liquor store (Vinmonopolet) is open 10-18 on weekdays and 10-15 on Saturdays. Closed on sundays and public holidays. 😊
Haha. There are hardly any stores that close at 5 p.m. unless you live far out in the wilderness with only 1000 other residents. It's rare for anything to close before 8 p.m. But then most things close, except for grocery stores, which close at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. on weekdays. There are Sunday-open stores in all towns and cities, which close around 6 p.m
biggest thing in Norway we using the 24 hour system so time when Grocery stores only opens and closes are : Mon-Fri ( 07:00 till 23:00 / 7Am to 11PM ) Saturdays I guess ( 08:00 till 23 or 22 depending on store and if it's located in a mall, then closing hours may be way earlier ) but overall it's 7 or 8 am till 9 to 11 pm depending where certain store is located ... sorry about the confusion but yeah
Flower stores, giftshops and small shop is closing around 17:00/5pm. But the supermarkeds or malls are usually open to 20:00-21:00/8-9pm. Grocery stores in my city is open from 07:00/7am to 23:00/11pm. On Saturday the mall is closing around 16:00/4pm to 20:00/8pm.
Flower stores gift shops and such are sepperated ... to me the talk was mainly about Grocery stores / Supermarket ( food, supplies for bathroom example toilet paper and such )@@TTDahlI talk about Rema 1000, Coop Extras, Coop Prixes, Bunnpris and such
local stores on small places are uselly closed around 5pm but thats only local stores but the big stores in norway are uselly open even on sundays to 9pm but shopping center is uselly closed on sundays
Southwest; grosery store closes at 23.00 Farmecy latest in malls at 18.00. Vinmonopoley (wine and spirit) at about 18.00 in weekdays or 15.00 weekends but look up your area.
My local grocery store keep open from 77 to 23(11), 7 days a week, because this area have deemed a 'touristic' area it keeps open on sundays. Stores can keep open 24 hours from monday to saturday, but few do. And finally we have the self-opening stores, that are always open, tou use your debit oer credit card to open the door, there is no staff inside. You pay by scanning your stuff.
And it's not true that the stores close 4 or 5. Of course private owned shops that are not part of a mall or inside a mall have different opening and closing hours, malls tends to open at 10 and close 22. Groceries open 6:30, some 7, and close at 23.
16:39 Norway, as far as I am aware, doesn't have a single Über-like company (not even Über themselves) that operates in most, if not all, the bigger and medium sized cities, so instead of doing that, people used to rely on ride-sharing groups on Facebook to catch a ride with someone to wherever they were going, or just get picked up and driven to their destination alone, usually both would be in return for some gas money and then extra to make it worth the trip for the driver. But after the police and various taxi companies filed charges against 8 (9, I wasn't included in the court case I'm about to write about, but I was one of the ones that did get fined and lost driving privileges for the car that I drove) of these drivers, the drivers got the lawyer of the ride-sharing Facebook Group to help them take the police and taxi companies to court for falsely charging the 8 drivers for breaking the law, I don't know what the laws on ride-sharing groups are anymore. You would think that the 8 drivers would lose the case against the police and the taxi companies, but in a good twist of fate, all three degrees of Courts sided with the drivers, all due to a technicality in the outdated laws that didn't take into account smart phones as the laws had been made long before the smartphones came to be, so the 8 drivers won the cases, and the police were commanded to return the money that they had taken from each and every one of the drivers that had been falsely fined for breaking the laws that they hadn't broken. Each driver would see their 8000 NOK ($930 at the time this happened, which was when $1 equaled around 8.6 NOK) returned, as well as the marks on our licenses removed as they were invalid. The case was big enough that the lawmakers updated the laws to include more modern methods of communication and such, that's all I know about the new laws, I don't know the details.
About the thumbnail, that's a little bit exaggerated. Although some shops do close at 4, a lot of shops close at 4:30, or even 5 or 6 o' clock. And most food shops, close at 11 at night these days, but it used to be 8 in the evening before. And if the shop is in a mall, the malls usually close at 8 o' clock, but in a big city, like Oslo for example, it might be 9 in the evening. But every other type of shop, does close in the late afternoon. And I'm in a small city in the north of Norway, and most non-grocery shops here, close between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, and the food shops close at 11 at night, just like I said before, and it's true for the rest of the country as well, with minor exceptions, depending on the location of the shop, and the poulation number of that place.
Uber, Foodora, etc, are charging as Taxi here in Norway as ine need to have Taxi license to be alowed to "ship" people toward paymen. Everything else would be deemed as "Pirate Taxi", and therefore illegal, something that happened when Uber first tried to start up in Norway. The Taxi companies took Uber to court, and won
Store workers in Norway have rights, like HMS and are mostly organized in Workers Unions. They get decent wages they can live on. Not like in the underdeveloped USA where you need 2-3 jobs to get by. A grocery store worker in Norway earns ca. $ 17 per hour.
I dont know any store that closes at 4. pharmasies normally close at 5 or 6. Clothing stores ect normally close at 6 or 8. But grocery stores normally close at 10 or 11 in the weekdays.
Most grocery stores close between 22:00 and 23:00 on weekdays, and 21:00-22:00 on weekends. Other stores such as electronic, designer, fashion, etc usually close between 20:00-21:00. Don't know where she got the numbers from, but is most likely out in the contryside were very few people live for it to close that early, prolly like kiosks or somethin. However, the no open store on sundays are generally true cross-contry, with only a few "sunday stores" remaining open with limited nececity items.
I'd say most non-grocery stores stay open long enough that you can get there after normal work hours. Many chain grocery stores do however stay upen until 10 or 11 pm. Most restaurants and convenience stores are available on sundays, but often with diminished hours. Some really small restaurants staffed by few people, perhaps only staffed by a husband/wife team, will pick the least active weak day to stay closed so that they have a day off. Uber is a bit limited in Norway. They had to close down Uber Pop due to being in breach of certain tax laws and work regulations. Uber does have a presence, but initially only Uber Black survived; their limmo service. The Taxi regulations have been changed though and Uber, Lyft, and Bolt do have a presence (not sure if all or only two of them), but as far as I understand they have to register and run like normal taxi companies. Thus their profit margins are pretty similar to regular taxi companies and only the convenience of their apps make a real difference. How taxi companies survive? Look up the cost of owning a car in Norway. Taxes and maintenance costs are so high that on the same budget you can easilly afford a taxi several times per month if you choose not to have a car. If you use public transportations most days and a taxi only when you need the extra convenience it offers, like a large trunk for your shopping items, this can be preferable to owning a car yourself. This is espeially true for Oslo where parking can be both expensive and in short supply, while there are both a bus system, a combined subway/city train system, as well as a well developed train commute system running on the same tracks as, and inbetween, long distance trains.
Hold on!!! Grocery stores in Norway rarely close earlier than 19.00 in the evening on weekdays. Many are open until 20:00 or 23:00. Other shops such as a sports shop, clothes shop or a watchmaker may close at 5pm. Most shopping centers never close before 8 p.m., some are open until 11 p.m. on Thursdays. And most shops open between 07.00 and 09.00. Shopping centers often open at 10.00. ATTENTION! Vinmonepolet opens at 09.00 or 10.00, and most close at 18.00. this also applies to the shopping centre.
You can risk getting on the bus without beeping your ticket, but if there is a control you will get a hefty fine up to about 100 dollars. 7-800 norvegian kroner.
This is so wrong. Where I live in Oslo stores are open until 12am every day except Sundays. I also have a small grocery store nearby that’s open 7 days a week until 9 pm. And we don’t use tickets on public transportation, we use an app.
Thay ticket system is stone age. Its what we used in the 70's and 80s. It died out in the 90's. You get a hard paper card with 10 trips on it. And you have to punch a box on a platform or a bus to remove the number 10. That's good for 2 hours i think, maybe a bit more. Next klip as we call it you would punch the box on the bus and the number 9 would disappear. We all hated that system as the machines only worked if your card was brand new. Everytime you went to a festival for 4-5 days like Roskilde. Rhat card wouldn't work anywhere and the bus guy would give you shit because he had a machine that needed a prestine card kept in a steel box. Go figure... 😎 But we now have a plastic card that we put money on when needed. So i make sure i have 300 kr on it at all time. But you can save it for years and not use the remaining money. Its like a bank. We also have a lot of digital stuff on the phone. But phones die, so i prefer my plastic card.
I'd say getting too close to people is one. Norwegians are pretty reserved. If you see people wait at a bus stop they stand 2 ft apart. And if there is any other open space you don't sit next to someone on a bus. What I find most annoying that tourists do, is talk super loud and like nobody understands them. Most Norwegians are pretty good at speaking English. I sometimes call people out on that and you can see on their faces that it didn't even cross their mind that the people around them fully understand them trash talking things and people they see. Hot tip, ask locals where good spots are. You avoid the expensive tourist traps and often find places more pretty than the overrun ones. :)
How old is this video your watching? Stores closes around 20.00 - 23.00 on weekdays and, more or less the same on weekends. Alcohol sale closes at 20.00 in regular shops, but hard liquor closes at 18.00. On Saturday beer and ciders closes at 18.00 and hard liquor at 15.00/16.00...
A record shop closes at 17.00-17.30. But a supermarket closes at 20-23.00 in the evening every day of the week for most of the year depending where you live. But if its december its a whole different game. Shops close at 13.00 on 24 and 31st of December. But snops can be closed for 4-5 days around that time. But no one cares. I only know people that shop for 2 weeks in December. Closed shops is not a problem. You just buy 100 toilet rolls and 10 liter milk and you're good. Its the weird holidays in the summer or easter that gets me.
What is this woman talking about closing at 16:00 (4)? Maybe on the country side on a holiday. But every other store closes at 22-23, 10-11 pm) also we have gas stations that are open 24/7 but they are very expensive. And on sundays you have to go to gas station on a «sunday store» , some stores like "bunnpris" has their own section of the store that is open on sundays. Gas stations are expensive. Like 6 usd for a small coca cola.
Most stores closes at 8. 6 at saturdays. Some stors is also open to 11. What she is syaing is more for small places, and very very far out on the countryside.
In smaller rural areas in Norway, convenience stores close earlier in the day, I believe. To my understanding, staying open longer doesn't necessarily mean or guarantee that you would make more money. So, from that point of view it would make sense to close around at e. g. 5 p. m. In a nearby town, one grocery store that I know of close at around 11 p. m., but it is a more populated area, though. So, it would make sense to stay open longer, since it would mean more costumers, and in turn, the chance to earn more money - than if you close the store early (like e. g. 5 p. m.). I suppose it just depends on where you live, and/or the size of the population living there.
Just going to add this under here, since I thought came to remember this after my previous comment under this video: The name of two names of convenience stores, that I know of, in Norway, are 'COOP marked' and 'Matkroken' (the latter one; literally: 'The food corner' (or 'The Food Corner')). If you or anyone you know plan on visiting Norway in the near or distant future, I think one advice would be to check the opening hours of convenience stores or grocery stores, in the area(s) that you plan or visiting, or staying in. It can be a good thing to check the opening hours in advance, I think. That way you will know when the stores are open, in case you need to make a purchase, like groceries and/or other necessities. Especially if you and/or they plan on visiting more rural areas. One COOP marked store that I know of, usually opens at 9 a. m. and close around at 5 p. m. (Monday to Friday). On Saturdays, the opening hours are 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. (that is, during the Fall/Autumn, Winter, and Spring seasons). In the Summer, the opening hours on a Saturday is from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. It is closed during Sundays. The opening hours can also vary during different Holidays for most convenience stores and grocery stores in Norway. I thought it would be good to add the bit about the different Holidays (like e. g. Yule or Easter) and the varying opening hours, so that you'll know about those, too. More often than not, different days will have different opening hours. Like during Yule season, it might be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. some days, while on Christmas Eve itself, the opening hours might be from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Just to provide you with an example. During the month of December, most stores are also open on Sundays even.
Stores dont close 4-6. They close 8-9, but grocery stores close 10-11. weekends are earlier. Sunday its closed Vinmonopolet(alcohol store) closes 8(?) and 4 on weekend If im not mistaken uber is illegal bc taxi companies lose so much money, or it has something to do with taxes. People charging money when driving someone is illegal bc of taxes, even friends
If you land at Oslo International Airport Gardermoen, and are going to Oslo, then I would take the train, which stops very close to the city center, also get out of the station, and use Google map to find the hotel, and is it too far to walk, then I can take a taxi. You save a lot on that. Of course you can use UBER, but I never feel safe with an UBER! That's why I drive a regular taxi!
Also, We take Taxis when we need to get around quickly. Say from concert to concert. I used to hit to a festival thay takes place in 5-6 diffent places in the city and you have maybe 10 minutes before the next band starts. I've used about 12-14 taxis in just one night bexause of where the hotel is and where the gigs are. And taking a cab will always be 15-25 dollars per trip here. So when doing the concert run i make sure to have 60 dollars on me at all time as time is of the essence. I tend to see 30+ bands over a weekend. And it can take place in a big place, a cafe and even in a big ass church. So know the lost of bands and ahere they play because it's gonna be stressed as hell. Even when going full speed in a taxi I've missed the start of a concwrt or two. When it 5 in the morning you gwt a cab to the hotel. That's always been the longest trip for me. And will cost maybe 50-100 dollars today. You always spend about 400-500 dollars in that weekend. A bit like seeing Depeche. A tonne of money is needed for these things. But no, a lot of countries dont have Uber. We see them as a criminal organisation here. They where banned 10 years ago because they didn't want to abide to the danish laws. So they became totally forbidden overnight. So you will have to use cabs at some point. Otherwise your not getting home unless some hot blonde models turn up in a Ferrari and drive you home.. 😅
what she is saying about stores is NOT true. Where i live, most grocery stores closes at 2300 on weekdays(mon - fri) 2100 on saturday, sunday is closed
@@cryptc actually I think we there were stamping machines for tickets on the underground in Stockholm (Sweden) when I was there in the late 00"s And I remember they used hole punch for tickets on the bus in Norway in the 80's and 90's. Single tickets were steamed on a piece of paper, but multi tickets and transfer tickets used thicker cardboard and hole punch,
She she was kinda right with the store opening time but the lack of information made it wrong but thats not the Main opening time Regular food stores are open from 10-11 depends on where you live and some 8 What she was talking about sound like.small shops where there arent so many employes or just a special kind of shop We have beers in regular store where alkohol sales close at 8 and at 6 on saturday If u wanna buy any other type of alcohol you can only go to vinmonopolet wich usually close at 6 and on saturday close at 4 Koffer reagere ingen av dokke på butikktidene!?!?!?
She must have been drunk every time she visited a store, because the opening hours in most stores are much longer than 4, or 5 PM. I have watched a few of her videos, and they should be taken with a grain of salt. She has a tendency to claim that her limited experiences are true for the entire country, and she often presents social norms as strict rules that must be obeyed. Regarding the "let people off the train before you board", I enforce this strictly. If someone is trying to rush in when I'm exiting I will happily ram them.
Earlyer the grocer istors closed at 1pm on saturdays. When they wanted to expand opening houers on the then head of the lagres union argued, if people are so hungover that they can go to the stor before 1pm they just have to wait til monday! Later they argued for sunday open stores, the same political party/ union, argued that they wanted to protect the mom and dad stores so they set a maximum squerfootige for stores to be open in sundays. Which in return ended in that the big stores set of a corner of the store where you can get nesessetied on sundays, and the mom and dad stores ceeps closed! Comunity defined as touristinfo destinations have grocery stores open 7 days a week with no squerfootidge limitations!
No 1 has not been true in most Norwegian cities for well over a decade. You buy a ticket, usually on an app,. and it's valid for a certain amount of time and for a certain area from then on.
Side note, the described system was introduced in the city I grew up in around 25 years ago. It's antiquated by now, with smart phones/apps and ticket machines on the stops.
Also. Taking a Taxi from the airport into town center is only done by the rich here. That wojpd be so expensive that anything under 100 dollars wouod be unrealistic. It could be 200 dollars for that trip. They say Denmark has some of the most expensive Taxis but i feel Norway can beat us. I paid 744 kroner to get home from some weird place i didn't know. Took less than an hour but basically took all my money and made me unable to go to a concert the week after. I cant do Taxis over 150 kroner most of the time.. So its been years since I've used one. In London in 1994 a cab was always under 3 quid to get back to Barbican regardless where i was. So that made me aleays save 3 quid to get back in a cab as the tube stopped around midnight. Probably the only underground to do so.. So you had to cab it constantly if you went out, and in London you do hit the clubs and the streets a lot. All year round there's a lot going on. 😊
Uber is actually illegal in Norway.There is "Uber", but it's basically the same thing as a regular taxi. The driver needs to be a licensed taxi driver and the car also needs to be a licensed taxi. So basically you can use the Uber app to order a regular taxi, which would be a mistake if you're on a budget. The opening hours mentioned applies to most shops around the city center, except grocery shops which typically closes anywhere from 9pm to 11pm (But you can't by alcohol later than 8pm)
It's no illegal per se, but you do need a taxi license, a taxi insurance for the car, taxi markings on the car and a lot of other papers and documents. It's complicated.
@@zaph1rax Technically Uber is not illegal, but there's a lot of restrictions. That's what I'm saying. You could register a one man company, repaint and reregister a car as a taxi, equip it with a taxi meter and taxi light, get taxi insurance and a permit and start driving for Uber in Norway. I think all these restrictions are lame, but I've also heard some horrible stories about Uber, both the company policy, drivers and customers.
@@AudunWangen Yes, and then you become a regular taxi driver with a regular taxi. The only difference is that you're a regular taxi driver with an Uber app.
. Most Grocery stores/Supermarkets are open till 23,00 (11pm), so it is not reallly a problem. Other shops normally closes around 4 or 5pm, but on Thursday's opening hours are longer. The shopping malls normally closes at 9pm on weekdays, (as do of course all the shops inside the mall) (7pm on Saturdays). And yes, it has to do with both keeping a work life balance, as well as it is a remain from bygone times when Christianity actually had a say in society, you know, Sacred Sundays... There is no public or political cries for opening hours around the clock- (unless now and then from politicians onthe far right wing, but they are opposed to most worker's rights anyway...
My closest supermarket (food) is open to 23 (uh... 11 at night, is that pm or am? damn your letters) and I have never had an issue with that, as I cant shop when I am sleeping. But yes, all the other stores can be annoying to deal with.
I'm not familiarr with 'card beeping', but while that was a thing not beeping your card would probably make you loose rep in the eyes of those who noticed. but since they'd not be likely to ever see you again, why bother speaking up. :)
You cant cheat Tyler. So your plan wont work and all that would happen is having to pay around 1000 kroner instantly. It was 700 kr in the late 80's and i saw a lot of people getting caught without a ticket.
----- @billyo54 ----- - The alcohol sale in grocery stores stops at 8pm (6pm on weekends), but the stores themselves do not close before around 10 or 11pm (8 or 9pm on weekends) depending on the chain. Also to note... The alcohol in grocery stores is mostly weaker stuff like beer with low proof-rating. If you need or want stronger stuff, you have to go to the liquor store which also closes at around 5 to 6pm (4pm on weekends) depending on location. -----
It might sound like nonsense to you. Norway doesn't have off-licence though. They have Vinmonopolet which is a government run store that has monopoly on selling hard liquor. There are strict rules on when that can be sold. Lower % alcohol is sold at grocery stores, and has similarly strict rules, but usually a bit later than the monopoly.
Her English isn't very good so she struggles to explain and use the proper terms. Here in Oslo, and every other major city, whenever you buy a plastic card from the public transport company Ruter, different cities has different names depending on the line or city, which is to be used on every public transport in that city, you can either fill it with money, or you buy a month or yearly ticket. Then you need to beep it to activate the ticket. If you put money on it, you have to beep it every time you travel, if monthly or yearly you've already paid, so you only need to beep it once before you use it for the 1st time. In the old days, it was on paper back and you physically had to show it. You beep it at the entrance to the station if the metro, on the metro it self, or in the bus or tram on a screen. A ticket will be valid for an hour, unless a 24/7, or weekly ticket. And they don't stamp the ticket anymore. Everything is mostly electronic/digital. We have a designated phone app for public transport where you plan your journey and buy your ticket beforehand, or right before your departure. You can still physically buy a ticket still I believe, but that are only on the busses and trains. And it's also more expensive and stressful.
Mostly in big cities like Oslo stores are closed from 16:00 and on Sundays.. But outside cities most are open all days and late to 23:00, to support all the "Hytte" people and tourists...
No idea where you get that from. Lots of cabins here and there are only a couple of small grocery stores open on Sundays here. Regular stores are closed.
Nah, Uber isnt a thing all over the world. And its not in Norway. If it was, it would probably be expensive, because of the high petrol prices. People just use public transportation
Sounds a bit weird. Most grocery stores close at 23.00 on weekdays where I live, maybe 21.00 on Saturdays.
saturdays are normally 22.. depending on the stores btw I am from the North of Norway
independent stores usually close at like 5 pm-6 pm, but the malls and chain shops are open until 9 pm. Grocery stores from 7 am to 11-12 pm
In Oslo malls close at 9pm, grocery stores at 11pm (few at 10pm) and other shops at about 7-8pm 😛 got to admit that hearing that shops in Norway closes at 4-6pm is almost alien to me 😂 I lived in a small town in England where that was the case, and I just never got used to it.
Forget about the tickets she is talking about. That was 10-20 years ago. Today we use apps.
No, we have those ticketcards here in Trondheim. Tourists often get in trouble here because they don’t register the card on the bus before the trip.
@@Penny1ane We are talking about Norway, not Trondheim.
@@Penny1aneBergen here.. cant even remember last time I used a ticket
@@Brandofviti great. you can tell the girl on the video that. I never buy tickets either, i always use the app, but tourists often prefer to buy a travelling card/ticket so they don’t have to navigate the app. And this video was directed to the tourists. I’m happy we have that option here. My kids use this fill up bus card/ ticket too because they don’t have phones yet.
@@Penny1anewe have apps too, those cards are for people who buy for one month. A one trip ticket you don’t have to show. I live in the sentrum of Trondheim
Don't know where in Norway she lives, but these store hours don't match up with my area at all! And the national guidelines for the sale of alcoholic beverages is 8pm on weekdays and 6pm Saturdays. Above 4,7% is 6pm on weekdays and 3pm Saturdays (and only sold at Vinmonopolet).
Public transportation is mostly payed by app these days 🙌 But your "ticket" does have to be activated when you get on, and the fines for riding without a valid ticket can be INSANE!!
Taxis are sadly very, very expensive, and Uber is not allowed in Norway (due to laws surrounding taxi licenses) 😔.
There is no need to buy bottled water at all in Norway like you might do in a lot of other European countries. Our water is soooo good! I sometimes buy water, mainly to have a lightwait bottle to refill and use for hikes ☺️
I'm glad Uber isn't allowed here, the company is horrible and the whole 'gig economy' idea in its entirety runs entirely contrary to Norwegian values. Proper terms, conditions and protections for workers here, you can't really have or enforce that with 'gig economy' business models. There's already been plenty of issues just to have staffing agencies (bemanningsbyrå) work half-decently within the context of our regulations.
You have to notice that STOREs here meaning is everything from Clothing store, Sport article stores etc that are seperate 1 store only in city centers, but in shopping mals they might be open to 8 or 9 in the evening. Groceries are independent from this. 7 to 23 = most common.
You know, your positive attitude, but not over the top, smiles and all that makes me keep coming back for more of your videos. It's all so down to earth and relaxing! Cheer mate!
Oh, he's certainly quite excessive. In fact, he is cultivating goodwill unlike any other, capitalizing on the eagerness of unsuspecting Norwegians longing to hear about their nation within an international context. He makes money from the typical profound inferiority complex that plagues the residents of insignificant nations.
@@TH-cam_Stole_My_Handle_Too If he had enough hits on his vids to make any money - you might have had a valid point. Alas you seemed so intent on impressing the readers with you vocabulary, that you simply forgot to notice the facts.
I'm also pretty sure you'd struggle to find many Europeans suffering from "typical profound inferiority complex that plagues the residents of insignificant nations". Compared to what, America? China? Russia?
Hello. Have watched your videos for a while, and wonder when you will come to Norway, now you know more than us😊 The shops are open until 11 pm. Less densely populated areas probably close earlier. at 18 - 20. on Sundays it is closed, but there are 7 - 11, smaller shops and gas stations that are open on Sundays. something many of us appreciate. not everyone 😊 And as always, we are different like you. A little secret, I was born and raised in Norway, but haven't had skis on my legs since I was 10 - 12 years old, I don't miss it. don't tell anyone 😊
Only grocery stores are open until 11 pm. Other stores close early.
@@Datateknikeren Most shopping centers/malls in Oslo are open until 10 pm (like Storosenteret - the biggest one). So yeah, other stores close one hour earlier than most grocery stores.
Its like that in a lot of northern europe. Netherlands,Danmark,sweden etc
@@BastianNorW yeah, but the capital isn't really a good comparison to the rest of the country. It's comparable to some of the other big cities though.
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I don't know where this lady lives in Norway, but where I come from, the supermarkets close at 21.00 or 23.00.
She lives in Trondheim. We have a lot of small niche stores here that close early. She never said it was grocery stores.
Store does not mean grocery store exclusively. I've never seen dressmann open at 23:00 unless it's a special day.
Kiwi and extra close at 23.00
@@monicabredenbekkskaar1612 Kiwi and extra are grocery stores and she is not talking about those kind of stores. Husfliden close at 17. Dressmann, Ark and Kid interiør close at 17 or 18 if they are not in some type of mall.
Most Norwegians use the apps for public transport, so I can understand tourists making mistakes with their tickets because they cannot just look at what we do, because we just walk in and sit down without doing anything, because we have done the ticket purchase through the app and there is no need for app users to do anything after purchasing our tickets.
She lives in Trondheim. I’ve seen her videoes before. The stores here do close around 16, 17 or 18, but we have a lot of small niche stores here. They sell things like art, books and clothes. It’s not grocery stores. Grocery stores are open to like 22 or 23
Yeah. She is obviously talking about shops for special goods in the city centers which close early, and not supermarkets and shopping centers which are often a little outside the city centre. I think it's like that in most cities.
Alcoholic hours are 10am to 8pm ( Saturdays it's from 10am to 6pm )
As a person working in a store, I appreciate that stores close a bit early (it's about the same in Sweden as in Norway I think). And closing early in weekends, well, for example I get paid double in Sundays and it would be very expensive for the store to pay me double for late nights when almost no one is shopping.
"Stores close at 4"?? No that's not my experience in Norway. Grocery shops are generally open until 10pm, so called normal shops like book shops, clothes shops etc normally would close around 5pm unless it's in a shopping centre when it cold be 8 or so. Most shops closed on Sundays, something I think is fantastic as I hate shopping.
07:06 She has to be speaking about specialty stores or pharmacies and the likes, because grocery stores close between 8 pm to 11 pm, depending on the store, on week days, and then between 6 pm and 11 pm on Saturdays, with the few exceptions on Sundays being probably around the same closing times as Saturday.
Being borned and raised in Norway I wonder where she lives.
Cause I lived just outside Bergen.
And almost all stores are open until 7-9.
Most supermarkets are open until between 9-11.
Very few shops close before 6.
Where do you live? Most stores close around 5 where I live. Bit later on Thursdays. Earlier on Saturday. The exception is grocery stores. They are mostly open until 11 on the weekdays.
@@Popupkiller Just outside Bergen.
And i do see that there are more people reacting to it.
That they also have about the same closing hours as i am used to.
Same here in Sogndal. The grocery stores are open until 11 p.m.
Agree with you.
grocery shops and shopping malls are open longer, but the general idea is to give most people the evening and weekend off. If your opening hours are extended, when even permissible, you will need expensive staffing solutions with additional shifts. Mom-and-pop shops can’t afford that, nor is it really needed. People will confine their shopping to your busines hours. This holds true for alcohol as well, and keep in mind that there is a government monopoly on wine and liquor. If you suddenly need a drink late at night, you can always head for a restaurant, pub, bar or club. Oh, and Uber is outlawed. You need a taxi permit to transport people in exchange for money.
If you wish to drive a bus in Oslo, you can buy a travel card, and then you pay NOK 50 for it, you also get a card, which is similar to a bank card or visa card, and when you board the bus, there is a machine at the door, also just hold the card in front of you, then the cost of traveling by bus will be deducted from the card. You can top up this card with new NOK 50 at a number of places around the city.
Then remember, the opening hours are usually displayed on large signs, clise to the store name.
Every time you go to the store, or drive past, you are reminded when they are open.
Most stores ar closed Sundays, but there's an exception rule, permitting some stores to be open on Sundays, if somespecial conditions are met.
It's not like you can't buy food on a Sunday, but you have to know where to go to to find the specific stores.
You need to scan that ticket, and I learned that the hard way.. I'm from the northern part of Norway and didn't know that when I went to Oslo, but I got away with a warning when I explained my situation 😅
Most stores are open until 5pm here and then it varies. Some days they are open until 6pm and in malls its common to be open until 7pm.
Grocery stores that are not very rural are open until at least 9pm, but most these days are open until 10 or 11pm.
The sale hours of alcohol (up to 4.7%) in grocery stores can vary as its the municipality that set these hours within some rules. Around here it closes at 8pm on weekdays, but on days before "red" days like Sundays and public holidays like Christmas day it will close at 6pm. So every Saturday its 6pm.
Grocery stores that can be open on Sundays can only be up to 100 square meters (~1076 sq. ft) and 150 sq. meters for gas stations (~1614 sq. ft).
There are often alternatives when it comes to grocery stores. There are unmanned stores that are open 24/7, and it starts to be some of them, but a far from everywhere. Most of them are closed Sundays because of size restrictions. The grocery stores can’t be bigger than 100 square meters . That been said, it was made as a possibility from the time none grocery stores could be open on Sundays. Now, when more becomes digital and stores are unmanned, and with full self service, it will soon be small grocery stores all over the country, and the 100 square-meters restrictions will be taken away for unmanned stores.
But until then only small grocery stores will be open on Sundays. Expect from in the summertime when all grocery stores are open if the place are defined as an official tourist destination.
Most stores don't close befor 20:00 (8pm) on weekends, often 21 or 22.
In my neighborhood I even have one store open until 23 (11pm) every day, even Sunday.
Before some spacial days, they close early.
Alcohol isn't sold on Sunday, and usually stop at 20:00, or earlier depending on local regulations.
Saturday and days before religious holidays alcohol usually stop at 18,
These are mostly left for local regulations, but there are some national guidelines as well.
Alcohol served at restaurants and bars, are subject to other rules.
But they are served in glass or opened bottle.
To sell sealed bottles, they would need a alcohol license for stores (there's a different license for bars/restaurants).
Stores that aren't grocery stores, like those selling clothes etc, usually close at between 4pm or 6pm. Grocery stores be up until at least between 9pm and 11pm. Only a few of them are open on Sundays, while like 99% of everything else be closed aside of gas stations and 7-11 tho they don't sell things like milk, bread, dinners etc. They got water, soda, energy drinks, snacks like chips, chocolate etc, and some sandwiches, buns, warmed up hotdogs etc. Oh and yea, they are extremely expensive too haha. Last time I was at 7-11, a 250g chocolate bar was like 50kr or so, aka about 5 USD.
4-5 and 6 closing times are drug stores, clothing stores and the like. The normal grocery store is 11-12 at night in the cities, 10-11 at night at more remote locations
02:37 In Norway you can buy these bus passes that come in a visa card-like card, once you have it, you can fill it up with money similar to how you can deposit money into your bank account, only that this money will purely be available for any public transport that accept the cards. When you have one of the cards, you are supposed to hold it up against a scanner device, the same as you do with tap-less payment for cards of when you pay with your phone against card readers, etc. But I suspect she's saying that a lot - or some - of the tourists or foreigners think all you have to do is buy the card, fill it up with money, and you're set to go sit down in a seat without anything more to it, forgetting - or not knowing - that they have to actually scan the card so it can charge them for a ticket.
busses normally don't cost that much around the city route
1, tickets: you buy a ticket and as long as the ticket is valid, you can use it several times.
2. Stores: grocery stores are normally open until 22.00 or 23.00, but supermarkets with different stores normally closes at 20.00, but smaller stores downtown closes normally 16.00 most days and 19.00 one day a week. Alcohol is like this woman say. Sundays most stores are closed.
I live in tønsberg. Only gas stations can be open 24/7 but we have a kiwi thats open from 6 AM to 1 AM. 🤫
Grocery stores close usually 2300. Shopping malls close usually 2000 or 2100.
The opening hours of grocery stores is incorrect. Most grocery stores are open between 07:00-23:00. Some close a bit earlier like 21:00 or 22:00 aspecially in less populated aereas. Most stores are closed on sundays, but some stores are allowed to be open, but only a smaller section of the store and with less options to choose from.
Other stores like clothing stores, book stores etc are usually open between 10:00-21:00 and closes earlier on Saturdays. Closed on Sundays. The liquor store (Vinmonopolet) is open 10-18 on weekdays and 10-15 on Saturdays. Closed on sundays and public holidays. 😊
Haha. There are hardly any stores that close at 5 p.m. unless you live far out in the wilderness with only 1000 other residents.
It's rare for anything to close before 8 p.m. But then most things close, except for grocery stores, which close at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. on weekdays. There are Sunday-open stores in all towns and cities, which close around 6 p.m
That thing about the stores aren't really true. Most of the grocery stores are open from 7 AM to 11 PM. :)
biggest thing in Norway we using the 24 hour system so time when Grocery stores only opens and closes are : Mon-Fri ( 07:00 till 23:00 / 7Am to 11PM ) Saturdays I guess ( 08:00 till 23 or 22 depending on store and if it's located in a mall, then closing hours may be way earlier ) but overall it's 7 or 8 am till 9 to 11 pm depending where certain store is located ... sorry about the confusion but yeah
Flower stores, giftshops and small shop is closing around 17:00/5pm. But the supermarkeds or malls are usually open to 20:00-21:00/8-9pm.
Grocery stores in my city is open from 07:00/7am to 23:00/11pm. On Saturday the mall is closing around 16:00/4pm to 20:00/8pm.
Flower stores gift shops and such are sepperated ... to me the talk was mainly about Grocery stores / Supermarket ( food, supplies for bathroom example toilet paper and such )@@TTDahlI talk about Rema 1000, Coop Extras, Coop Prixes, Bunnpris and such
local stores on small places are uselly closed around 5pm but thats only local stores but the big stores in norway are uselly open even on sundays to 9pm but shopping center is uselly closed on sundays
Southwest; grosery store closes at 23.00
Farmecy latest in malls at 18.00. Vinmonopoley (wine and spirit) at about 18.00 in weekdays or 15.00 weekends but look up your area.
My local grocery store keep open from 77 to 23(11), 7 days a week, because this area have deemed a 'touristic' area it keeps open on sundays. Stores can keep open 24 hours from monday to saturday, but few do. And finally we have the self-opening stores, that are always open, tou use your debit oer credit card to open the door, there is no staff inside. You pay by scanning your stuff.
Your reactions are valid, but the information on this video is wrong for the most part, so not the best source..
And it's not true that the stores close 4 or 5. Of course private owned shops that are not part of a mall or inside a mall have different opening and closing hours, malls tends to open at 10 and close 22. Groceries open 6:30, some 7, and close at 23.
16:39 Norway, as far as I am aware, doesn't have a single Über-like company (not even Über themselves) that operates in most, if not all, the bigger and medium sized cities, so instead of doing that, people used to rely on ride-sharing groups on Facebook to catch a ride with someone to wherever they were going, or just get picked up and driven to their destination alone, usually both would be in return for some gas money and then extra to make it worth the trip for the driver. But after the police and various taxi companies filed charges against 8 (9, I wasn't included in the court case I'm about to write about, but I was one of the ones that did get fined and lost driving privileges for the car that I drove) of these drivers, the drivers got the lawyer of the ride-sharing Facebook Group to help them take the police and taxi companies to court for falsely charging the 8 drivers for breaking the law, I don't know what the laws on ride-sharing groups are anymore.
You would think that the 8 drivers would lose the case against the police and the taxi companies, but in a good twist of fate, all three degrees of Courts sided with the drivers, all due to a technicality in the outdated laws that didn't take into account smart phones as the laws had been made long before the smartphones came to be, so the 8 drivers won the cases, and the police were commanded to return the money that they had taken from each and every one of the drivers that had been falsely fined for breaking the laws that they hadn't broken. Each driver would see their 8000 NOK ($930 at the time this happened, which was when $1 equaled around 8.6 NOK) returned, as well as the marks on our licenses removed as they were invalid.
The case was big enough that the lawmakers updated the laws to include more modern methods of communication and such, that's all I know about the new laws, I don't know the details.
About the thumbnail, that's a little bit exaggerated. Although some shops do close at 4, a lot of shops close at 4:30, or even 5 or 6 o' clock. And most food shops, close at 11 at night these days, but it used to be 8 in the evening before. And if the shop is in a mall, the malls usually close at 8 o' clock, but in a big city, like Oslo for example, it might be 9 in the evening. But every other type of shop, does close in the late afternoon. And I'm in a small city in the north of Norway, and most non-grocery shops here, close between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, and the food shops close at 11 at night, just like I said before, and it's true for the rest of the country as well, with minor exceptions, depending on the location of the shop, and the poulation number of that place.
Uber, Foodora, etc, are charging as Taxi here in Norway as ine need to have Taxi license to be alowed to "ship" people toward paymen. Everything else would be deemed as "Pirate Taxi", and therefore illegal, something that happened when Uber first tried to start up in Norway. The Taxi companies took Uber to court, and won
Store workers in Norway have rights, like HMS and are mostly organized in Workers Unions. They get decent wages they can live on. Not like in the underdeveloped USA where you need 2-3 jobs to get by. A grocery store worker in Norway earns ca. $ 17 per hour.
I dont know any store that closes at 4. pharmasies normally close at 5 or 6. Clothing stores ect normally close at 6 or 8. But grocery stores normally close at 10 or 11 in the weekdays.
us norwegians go on food shoping RIGHT AFTER work, and if we got everything we go straight home or having free time.
Most grocery stores close between 22:00 and 23:00 on weekdays, and 21:00-22:00 on weekends. Other stores such as electronic, designer, fashion, etc usually close between 20:00-21:00. Don't know where she got the numbers from, but is most likely out in the contryside were very few people live for it to close that early, prolly like kiosks or somethin. However, the no open store on sundays are generally true cross-contry, with only a few "sunday stores" remaining open with limited nececity items.
We have quite a few stores open to 22-23. But NO alcohol etc. At least in the bigger cities. Im from Southern Norway.
I'd say most non-grocery stores stay open long enough that you can get there after normal work hours. Many chain grocery stores do however stay upen until 10 or 11 pm.
Most restaurants and convenience stores are available on sundays, but often with diminished hours.
Some really small restaurants staffed by few people, perhaps only staffed by a husband/wife team, will pick the least active weak day to stay closed so that they have a day off.
Uber is a bit limited in Norway. They had to close down Uber Pop due to being in breach of certain tax laws and work regulations. Uber does have a presence, but initially only Uber Black survived; their limmo service.
The Taxi regulations have been changed though and Uber, Lyft, and Bolt do have a presence (not sure if all or only two of them), but as far as I understand they have to register and run like normal taxi companies. Thus their profit margins are pretty similar to regular taxi companies and only the convenience of their apps make a real difference.
How taxi companies survive? Look up the cost of owning a car in Norway. Taxes and maintenance costs are so high that on the same budget you can easilly afford a taxi several times per month if you choose not to have a car.
If you use public transportations most days and a taxi only when you need the extra convenience it offers, like a large trunk for your shopping items, this can be preferable to owning a car yourself. This is espeially true for Oslo where parking can be both expensive and in short supply, while there are both a bus system, a combined subway/city train system, as well as a well developed train commute system running on the same tracks as, and inbetween, long distance trains.
Specialist stores like hardware/tech, clothing. Beer and cider in grocery stores 18.00 o'clock.
The store are open from 6/7-10/11
Transportation cards. Some cards you buy with a set number of uses/trips paid for in the card, you use it x times and it is depeleted
Grocerystores are open from 7 am to 11 pm. So don't worry, you will be able to get groceries.
Most stores acctually closes around 8 to 10 pm. I live in Norway so I know that
The ticket can be checked, and it is expencive if it turns out that you dont have it.
Hold on!!! Grocery stores in Norway rarely close earlier than 19.00 in the evening on weekdays. Many are open until 20:00 or 23:00. Other shops such as a sports shop, clothes shop or a watchmaker may close at 5pm. Most shopping centers never close before 8 p.m., some are open until 11 p.m. on Thursdays. And most shops open between 07.00 and 09.00. Shopping centers often open at 10.00. ATTENTION! Vinmonepolet opens at 09.00 or 10.00, and most close at 18.00. this also applies to the shopping centre.
Alcohol sales close 1800 only on Saturdays, weekdays it close 2000.
You can risk getting on the bus without beeping your ticket, but if there is a control you will get a hefty fine up to about 100 dollars. 7-800 norvegian kroner.
Most stores here are open from 7 to 11 PM. Smaller stores, more local from 9 to 8. And I'm REALY living rural.
Probably the ticket card will give you ten rides each lasting probably an hour. Therefore, you must stamp your ticket when you board.
This is so wrong. Where I live in Oslo stores are open until 12am every day except Sundays. I also have a small grocery store nearby that’s open 7 days a week until 9 pm.
And we don’t use tickets on public transportation, we use an app.
Thay ticket system is stone age. Its what we used in the 70's and 80s. It died out in the 90's. You get a hard paper card with 10 trips on it. And you have to punch a box on a platform or a bus to remove the number 10. That's good for 2 hours i think, maybe a bit more. Next klip as we call it you would punch the box on the bus and the number 9 would disappear. We all hated that system as the machines only worked if your card was brand new. Everytime you went to a festival for 4-5 days like Roskilde. Rhat card wouldn't work anywhere and the bus guy would give you shit because he had a machine that needed a prestine card kept in a steel box. Go figure... 😎
But we now have a plastic card that we put money on when needed. So i make sure i have 300 kr on it at all time. But you can save it for years and not use the remaining money. Its like a bank. We also have a lot of digital stuff on the phone. But phones die, so i prefer my plastic card.
I'd say getting too close to people is one. Norwegians are pretty reserved. If you see people wait at a bus stop they stand 2 ft apart. And if there is any other open space you don't sit next to someone on a bus. What I find most annoying that tourists do, is talk super loud and like nobody understands them. Most Norwegians are pretty good at speaking English. I sometimes call people out on that and you can see on their faces that it didn't even cross their mind that the people around them fully understand them trash talking things and people they see. Hot tip, ask locals where good spots are. You avoid the expensive tourist traps and often find places more pretty than the overrun ones. :)
How old is this video your watching? Stores closes around 20.00 - 23.00 on weekdays and, more or less the same on weekends. Alcohol sale closes at 20.00 in regular shops, but hard liquor closes at 18.00. On Saturday beer and ciders closes at 18.00 and hard liquor at 15.00/16.00...
A record shop closes at 17.00-17.30. But a supermarket closes at 20-23.00 in the evening every day of the week for most of the year depending where you live. But if its december its a whole different game. Shops close at 13.00 on 24 and 31st of December. But snops can be closed for 4-5 days around that time. But no one cares. I only know people that shop for 2 weeks in December. Closed shops is not a problem. You just buy 100 toilet rolls and 10 liter milk and you're good. Its the weird holidays in the summer or easter that gets me.
What is this woman talking about closing at 16:00 (4)? Maybe on the country side on a holiday. But every other store closes at 22-23, 10-11 pm) also we have gas stations that are open 24/7 but they are very expensive. And on sundays you have to go to gas station on a «sunday store» , some stores like "bunnpris" has their own section of the store that is open on sundays. Gas stations are expensive. Like 6 usd for a small coca cola.
Most stores closes at 8. 6 at saturdays.
Some stors is also open to 11.
What she is syaing is more for small places, and very very far out on the countryside.
In smaller rural areas in Norway, convenience stores close earlier in the day, I believe. To my understanding, staying open longer doesn't necessarily mean or guarantee that you would make more money. So, from that point of view it would make sense to close around at e. g. 5 p. m. In a nearby town, one grocery store that I know of close at around 11 p. m., but it is a more populated area, though. So, it would make sense to stay open longer, since it would mean more costumers, and in turn, the chance to earn more money - than if you close the store early (like e. g. 5 p. m.). I suppose it just depends on where you live, and/or the size of the population living there.
Just going to add this under here, since I thought came to remember this after my previous comment under this video: The name of two names of convenience stores, that I know of, in Norway, are 'COOP marked' and 'Matkroken' (the latter one; literally: 'The food corner' (or 'The Food Corner')). If you or anyone you know plan on visiting Norway in the near or distant future, I think one advice would be to check the opening hours of convenience stores or grocery stores, in the area(s) that you plan or visiting, or staying in. It can be a good thing to check the opening hours in advance, I think. That way you will know when the stores are open, in case you need to make a purchase, like groceries and/or other necessities. Especially if you and/or they plan on visiting more rural areas. One COOP marked store that I know of, usually opens at 9 a. m. and close around at 5 p. m. (Monday to Friday). On Saturdays, the opening hours are 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. (that is, during the Fall/Autumn, Winter, and Spring seasons). In the Summer, the opening hours on a Saturday is from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. It is closed during Sundays. The opening hours can also vary during different Holidays for most convenience stores and grocery stores in Norway. I thought it would be good to add the bit about the different Holidays (like e. g. Yule or Easter) and the varying opening hours, so that you'll know about those, too. More often than not, different days will have different opening hours. Like during Yule season, it might be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. some days, while on Christmas Eve itself, the opening hours might be from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Just to provide you with an example. During the month of December, most stores are also open on Sundays even.
What are a ticket? Some ancient relic? 😂 I use apps on my Iphone where ever I travel in Norway
Stores dont close 4-6.
They close 8-9, but grocery stores close 10-11. weekends are earlier. Sunday its closed
Vinmonopolet(alcohol store) closes 8(?) and 4 on weekend
If im not mistaken uber is illegal bc taxi companies lose so much money, or it has something to do with taxes. People charging money when driving someone is illegal bc of taxes, even friends
If you land at Oslo International Airport Gardermoen, and are going to Oslo, then I would take the train, which stops very close to the city center, also get out of the station, and use Google map to find the hotel, and is it too far to walk, then I can take a taxi. You save a lot on that. Of course you can use UBER, but I never feel safe with an UBER! That's why I drive a regular taxi!
Also, We take Taxis when we need to get around quickly. Say from concert to concert. I used to hit to a festival thay takes place in 5-6 diffent places in the city and you have maybe 10 minutes before the next band starts. I've used about 12-14 taxis in just one night bexause of where the hotel is and where the gigs are. And taking a cab will always be 15-25 dollars per trip here. So when doing the concert run i make sure to have 60 dollars on me at all time as time is of the essence. I tend to see 30+ bands over a weekend. And it can take place in a big place, a cafe and even in a big ass church. So know the lost of bands and ahere they play because it's gonna be stressed as hell. Even when going full speed in a taxi I've missed the start of a concwrt or two. When it 5 in the morning you gwt a cab to the hotel. That's always been the longest trip for me. And will cost maybe 50-100 dollars today. You always spend about 400-500 dollars in that weekend. A bit like seeing Depeche. A tonne of money is needed for these things. But no, a lot of countries dont have Uber. We see them as a criminal organisation here. They where banned 10 years ago because they didn't want to abide to the danish laws. So they became totally forbidden overnight. So you will have to use cabs at some point. Otherwise your not getting home unless some hot blonde models turn up in a Ferrari and drive you home.. 😅
what she is saying about stores is NOT true. Where i live, most grocery stores closes at 2300 on weekdays(mon - fri) 2100 on saturday, sunday is closed
You're not 'just a typical American', you're OUR typical American!
Tyler talks about stamps... Europeans go: Stamps? Wasn't that something they used during the wild western era?
I believe there were stamps and coupons during WW2, at some years thereafter.
But I'm way too young for first hand experience.
Hey, I remember when we would stamp tickets in oslo, in the 90ies :)
@@cryptc actually I think we there were stamping machines for tickets on the underground in Stockholm (Sweden) when I was there in the late 00"s
And I remember they used hole punch for tickets on the bus in Norway in the 80's and 90's.
Single tickets were steamed on a piece of paper, but multi tickets and transfer tickets used thicker cardboard and hole punch,
Silly question here. What is and Uber? Some kind of cheap taxi?
Taking a taxi in norway is a mistake because it is hella expensive yes, but seriously just don't 🙈
She she was kinda right with the store opening time but the lack of information made it wrong
but thats not the Main opening time
Regular food stores are open from 10-11 depends on where you live and some 8
What she was talking about sound like.small shops where there arent so many employes or just a special kind of shop
We have beers in regular store where alkohol sales close at 8 and at 6 on saturday
If u wanna buy any other type of alcohol you can only go to vinmonopolet wich usually close at 6 and on saturday close at 4
Koffer reagere ingen av dokke på butikktidene!?!?!?
She must have been drunk every time she visited a store, because the opening hours in most stores are much longer than 4, or 5 PM. I have watched a few of her videos, and they should be taken with a grain of salt. She has a tendency to claim that her limited experiences are true for the entire country, and she often presents social norms as strict rules that must be obeyed.
Regarding the "let people off the train before you board", I enforce this strictly. If someone is trying to rush in when I'm exiting I will happily ram them.
Earlyer the grocer istors closed at 1pm on saturdays.
When they wanted to expand opening houers on the then head of the lagres union argued, if people are so hungover that they can go to the stor before 1pm they just have to wait til monday!
Later they argued for sunday open stores, the same political party/ union, argued that they wanted to protect the mom and dad stores so they set a maximum squerfootige for stores to be open in sundays.
Which in return ended in that the big stores set of a corner of the store where you can get nesessetied on sundays, and the mom and dad stores ceeps closed!
Comunity defined as touristinfo destinations have grocery stores open 7 days a week with no squerfootidge limitations!
No 1 has not been true in most Norwegian cities for well over a decade. You buy a ticket, usually on an app,. and it's valid for a certain amount of time and for a certain area from then on.
Side note, the described system was introduced in the city I grew up in around 25 years ago. It's antiquated by now, with smart phones/apps and ticket machines on the stops.
We also think of americans when we think of tourists making mistakes
you can buy 2,5% alcohol all year around even on sundays :)
Uber got shut down in Norway because many of the drivers didn't pay the taxes
I did see a video of Richmond and there was a bus and it was night time. We in uk have started that but also you bank card license laws
Also. Taking a Taxi from the airport into town center is only done by the rich here. That wojpd be so expensive that anything under 100 dollars wouod be unrealistic. It could be 200 dollars for that trip. They say Denmark has some of the most expensive Taxis but i feel Norway can beat us. I paid 744 kroner to get home from some weird place i didn't know. Took less than an hour but basically took all my money and made me unable to go to a concert the week after. I cant do Taxis over 150 kroner most of the time.. So its been years since I've used one. In London in 1994 a cab was always under 3 quid to get back to Barbican regardless where i was. So that made me aleays save 3 quid to get back in a cab as the tube stopped around midnight. Probably the only underground to do so.. So you had to cab it constantly if you went out, and in London you do hit the clubs and the streets a lot. All year round there's a lot going on. 😊
Norwegian tourists rule:
Dont shop on sundays, assume all is closed and plan for it.
Uber is actually illegal in Norway.There is "Uber", but it's basically the same thing as a regular taxi. The driver needs to be a licensed taxi driver and the car also needs to be a licensed taxi. So basically you can use the Uber app to order a regular taxi, which would be a mistake if you're on a budget. The opening hours mentioned applies to most shops around the city center, except grocery shops which typically closes anywhere from 9pm to 11pm (But you can't by alcohol later than 8pm)
It's no illegal per se, but you do need a taxi license, a taxi insurance for the car, taxi markings on the car and a lot of other papers and documents. It's complicated.
@@AudunWangen Yes, that's what I said. It's not really Uber, it's regular taxi ordered with the Uber app.
@@zaph1rax Technically Uber is not illegal, but there's a lot of restrictions. That's what I'm saying. You could register a one man company, repaint and reregister a car as a taxi, equip it with a taxi meter and taxi light, get taxi insurance and a permit and start driving for Uber in Norway.
I think all these restrictions are lame, but I've also heard some horrible stories about Uber, both the company policy, drivers and customers.
@@AudunWangen Yes, and then you become a regular taxi driver with a regular taxi. The only difference is that you're a regular taxi driver with an Uber app.
She is much right but hours is off. She has noticed that we let people on can get off befor we enter😂
. Most Grocery stores/Supermarkets are open till 23,00 (11pm), so it is not reallly a problem. Other shops normally closes around 4 or 5pm, but on Thursday's opening hours are longer. The shopping malls normally closes at 9pm on weekdays, (as do of course all the shops inside the mall) (7pm on Saturdays). And yes, it has to do with both keeping a work life balance, as well as it is a remain from bygone times when Christianity actually had a say in society, you know, Sacred Sundays... There is no public or political cries for opening hours around the clock- (unless now and then from politicians onthe far right wing, but they are opposed to most worker's rights anyway...
The grocery store is open 7-23.
My closest supermarket (food) is open to 23 (uh... 11 at night, is that pm or am? damn your letters) and I have never had an issue with that, as I cant shop when I am sleeping. But yes, all the other stores can be annoying to deal with.
I'm not familiarr with 'card beeping', but while that was a thing not beeping your card would probably make you loose rep in the eyes of those who noticed. but since they'd not be likely to ever see you again, why bother speaking up. :)
Busses is difficult but it is 1 tour only...
You cant cheat Tyler. So your plan wont work and all that would happen is having to pay around 1000 kroner instantly. It was 700 kr in the late 80's and i saw a lot of people getting caught without a ticket.
The alcohol thing sounds like nonsense to me. Why would you close an off-licence at 6pm.
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- The alcohol sale in grocery stores stops at 8pm (6pm on weekends), but the stores themselves do not close before around 10 or 11pm (8 or 9pm on weekends) depending on the chain.
Also to note...
The alcohol in grocery stores is mostly weaker stuff like beer with low proof-rating.
If you need or want stronger stuff, you have to go to the liquor store which also closes at around 5 to 6pm (4pm on weekends) depending on location.
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It might sound like nonsense to you. Norway doesn't have off-licence though. They have Vinmonopolet which is a government run store that has monopoly on selling hard liquor. There are strict rules on when that can be sold. Lower % alcohol is sold at grocery stores, and has similarly strict rules, but usually a bit later than the monopoly.
Her English isn't very good so she struggles to explain and use the proper terms. Here in Oslo, and every other major city, whenever you buy a plastic card from the public transport company Ruter, different cities has different names depending on the line or city, which is to be used on every public transport in that city, you can either fill it with money, or you buy a month or yearly ticket. Then you need to beep it to activate the ticket. If you put money on it, you have to beep it every time you travel, if monthly or yearly you've already paid, so you only need to beep it once before you use it for the 1st time. In the old days, it was on paper back and you physically had to show it. You beep it at the entrance to the station if the metro, on the metro it self, or in the bus or tram on a screen. A ticket will be valid for an hour, unless a 24/7, or weekly ticket. And they don't stamp the ticket anymore. Everything is mostly electronic/digital. We have a designated phone app for public transport where you plan your journey and buy your ticket beforehand, or right before your departure. You can still physically buy a ticket still I believe, but that are only on the busses and trains. And it's also more expensive and stressful.
Can buy alcohol to 8, only on Satyrday its 6.
You Should come to Norway, I think you will like it 😀
And 10 to 15 C inside a house in the winter? BS ! Is she living in an unheated garage ?
in norway Supermarket and Grocery store is the same damn thing
Who are you talking to? Also I regards to stores closing early. There are more types of stores than grocery stores.
Mostly in big cities like Oslo stores are closed from 16:00 and on Sundays..
But outside cities most are open all days and late to 23:00, to support all the "Hytte" people and tourists...
No idea where you get that from. Lots of cabins here and there are only a couple of small grocery stores open on Sundays here. Regular stores are closed.
Nah, Uber isnt a thing all over the world. And its not in Norway. If it was, it would probably be expensive, because of the high petrol prices. People just use public transportation
Uber is in norway though