Ullared set up harry trade-fly from Sola – Fædrelandsvennen

The Swedish Gekås Department Store Ullared is the world’s largest, with its 35,000 square meters filled with goods. In addition Ullared a phenomenon with its own television series, as in Norway appear on TV Norway and has about 200,000 viewers per episode.

So-called Swedish trade or harry trade as Lars Sponheim originally called the Norwegian shopping traffic across the border, has so far been an eastern phenomenon.

For Western Norwegian has simply been too far to drive until Sweden to shop cheaper food, drinks and other goods. To Denmark or England by ferry have been more appropriate for them, writes Aftonbladet.

Until now.

Package

For the morning 16th November 2015 letter a Let’s Travel aircraft with 180 seats from Sola Airport. An hour later it lands in Halmstad, a few mil south of Gothenburg. After one hour the bus is one arrived at himself Ullared, 10 o’clock in the morning and use all day until noon. 20 to shop at the giant department store. And then, after a night and a breakfast in Ullareds newly built shopping hotel, a spending also throughout Tuesday behind shopping cart. Before flying back to Stavanger with maximum 30 kg purchased baggage. With this first flight from Stavanger to Ullared are the two employees who have been super celebrities throughout Scandinavia through television series, Morgan and Ola-Conny.

– Initially it with this one plane, right simply to test out the interest, says markesdssjef Lisa Hellstrom in Geka Ullared to Aftenbladet.

– But if it turns out that it is a success, it could be more trips later.

Stavanger has been selected as the first Norwegian town connecting flight to Ullared. Hellstrom not exclude that it can be set up rides from other Norwegian cities in west later.

The shortest flight

– Stavanger was chosen because it is a fairly short flight to Ullared, while the city is so far away that a drive is out of the question, said Hellstrom.

5 million people shop at Ullared each year, and 130,000 of these are already Norwegians. The department store, which has its own campsite and where both Swedes and Norwegians put their summer holidays, has a turnover of over 5 billion Swedish kronor annually.

The trip from Stavanger to Ullared sold as a package via airline Let’s travels homepage, for 1990 Norwegian respectively. It includes all transport and accommodation with breakfast. And Ullareds specially designed shoppingbag, with space for around 30 kg of luggage.