Norway is notoriously expensive, but diapers are unbelievably cheap (when you have a membership card in some stores). What are some very specific products that are way cheaper in one country compared to other countries? Either in your country or some other country.
June 17, 2025
So for example Copenhageners might buy diapers from Norway and actually save a lot of money.
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Free buckets in Finland, a deal worth lining up for. Finns go to Estonia to buy booze
Around 10-15 years ago there were news about people for eastern europe emptying shelves in Norwegian supermarkets for diapers. Kinda crazy when you think about it.
Dijon mustard from Maille is strangely cheap here too
Le fromage! The cheese I enjoy in France is less than €10 per kilo. The same cheese here in the USA is around $60 per kilo.
Paracetamol and ibuprofen I can get a pack of 16 for 36 pence in the UK , but in every other European country I’ve visited they are at least 3 euros but up to 5!
Salmon in Finland often had/has some really good offers. I believe the Norwegian producers dump the over supply to avoid eroding the price in other markets.
I just googled and the first answer was “cigarettes and alcohol” – guess the country!
Glasses (as in specs) seem to be a lot cheaper in the UK than in neighbouring countries for whatever reason
I honestly don’t know what is cheap in Romania anymore (that is accessible to foreigners). But people who live in border areas regularly go to Moldova and Bulgaria to buy cheap cigarettes. Whenever we go on a trip to Bulgaria friends ask us to buy them a 6-pack.
Household goods like cleaning products and the like in Germany.
Benelux, yes all three countries, have abnormally high prices and France recently passed a law banning certain kinds of discounts for this kind of products therefore making them more expensive. DM is therefore a staple shop when someone buys things in Germany.
I’m Italian but I visit Sweden often, and McDonald’s is actually cheaper there, even though anything else is very very expensive compared to my homeland. It’s delicious too, in comparison to the very low quality they offer here.
Nothing in the Netherlands. Breathing is expensive here.
I’m not sure if this is the best example, but the classic 0.5L plastic water bottle in Greece costs 0.5€ in most kiosks, etc (and it’s usually around 0.15-0.25€ if you get it from a supermarket), which at least compared to the rest of Europe is pretty cheap. If I’m not mistaken, the price for the 0.5L bottle here is kept at a maximum of 0.5€ by law and 0.6€ at the airports, which means if you’re travelling to Greece and someone sells you a water bottle for more than 0.5€ they’re scamming you.
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Free buckets in Finland, a deal worth lining up for. Finns go to Estonia to buy booze
Around 10-15 years ago there were news about people for eastern europe emptying shelves in Norwegian supermarkets for diapers. Kinda crazy when you think about it.
Here’s an article from 2012: [https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/osteuropeere-hamstrer-bleier-1.8102828](https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/osteuropeere-hamstrer-bleier-1.8102828)
Dijon mustard from Maille is strangely cheap here too
Le fromage! The cheese I enjoy in France is less than €10 per kilo. The same cheese here in the USA is around $60 per kilo.
Paracetamol and ibuprofen I can get a pack of 16 for 36 pence in the UK , but in every other European country I’ve visited they are at least 3 euros but up to 5!
Salmon in Finland often had/has some really good offers. I believe the Norwegian producers dump the over supply to avoid eroding the price in other markets.
I just googled and the first answer was “cigarettes and alcohol” – guess the country!
Glasses (as in specs) seem to be a lot cheaper in the UK than in neighbouring countries for whatever reason
I honestly don’t know what is cheap in Romania anymore (that is accessible to foreigners). But people who live in border areas regularly go to Moldova and Bulgaria to buy cheap cigarettes. Whenever we go on a trip to Bulgaria friends ask us to buy them a 6-pack.
Household goods like cleaning products and the like in Germany.
Benelux, yes all three countries, have abnormally high prices and France recently passed a law banning certain kinds of discounts for this kind of products therefore making them more expensive. DM is therefore a staple shop when someone buys things in Germany.
I’m Italian but I visit Sweden often, and McDonald’s is actually cheaper there, even though anything else is very very expensive compared to my homeland. It’s delicious too, in comparison to the very low quality they offer here.
Nothing in the Netherlands. Breathing is expensive here.
I’m not sure if this is the best example, but the classic 0.5L plastic water bottle in Greece costs 0.5€ in most kiosks, etc (and it’s usually around 0.15-0.25€ if you get it from a supermarket), which at least compared to the rest of Europe is pretty cheap. If I’m not mistaken, the price for the 0.5L bottle here is kept at a maximum of 0.5€ by law and 0.6€ at the airports, which means if you’re travelling to Greece and someone sells you a water bottle for more than 0.5€ they’re scamming you.