Sweden Game/Comic Stores

[Bullgrit]

Thanks for the Copenhagen store info. Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to get the chance to go by there. My flight out of Copenhagen on Saturday is at noon, so it won't give me time that morning to visit. Although, I'll probably be coming back through Copenhagen in June, so I might be able to try then.

I found a comic book shop in Malmo, but stores around here close at 6:00. What is up with the short store hours in Sweden? The store opens after people go to work, and closes within an hour of people leaving work. And since I have to come back by taxi from Lund, I haven't yet be able to make it to the store before closing time. I'm going to try very hard Friday to leave work early enough to get by the store. But geez, don't they want business?

It's like bank hours in the US: "What times can't you come to the bank? We'll be open then."

Bullgrit
Total Bullgrit

 

[kenobi65]

What is up with the short store hours in Sweden? The store opens after people go to work, and closes within an hour of people leaving work.

My experiences in Europe during two visits in the '90s were similar -- store hours seem to be typically what you would have seen in the U.S. in the 1970s, maybe earlier. (After all, the shop owner wants to go home for dinner, too. )

Just wait until you decide you need to go to the store on Sunday...

 

[kenobi65]

Hundreds of people in an airport, all dressed in black, and all quiet. It was kind of unnerving.

Sounds like a scene out of a Bergman movie. Was there a guy in a big black robe, trying to take a scythe through security?

 

[Gulla]

Looking around the office we currently have one wearing black (out of 23). But Norwegians are also rather bleak and black in winter. In summer, that is something else.

Håkon

 

[megamania]

That seems so morbid for everyone to be dressed in black.

The store hours would drive me crazy also.


Anything neat you saw there?