I just had a look on the site. If you choose the UK as your country then all products from the US warehouse show up and almost everything is out of stock apart from some Thunder and some very niche products like the purified snus and chess. However if you enter the country as Sweden then you end up with almost the whole lot in stock and available to buy.
I don't think they're going out of business. But I do think that they are slowly closing down the US warehouse without telling anyone that's happening. It's a shame that the EU business has meant that we lose both ways as we are not allowed to order from the Swedish warehouse. At least Northerner can go back to shipping from Sweden to the US like they did before.
This company started off by selling all things you could only normally get in Sweden to the rest of the world from their Swedish warehouse. One of those things was snus which quickly became the biggest thing they did ... and then the only thing they did with other tobacco products thrown in the mix ... then they started expanding in to the USA with the US warehouse and that was the first time any of us noticed a drop in the level of service from them. My guess is that they over-specialised and over-stretched themselves as a company at that point and have been trying to catch up ever since (nobody keeps that low a level of stock they are serious about supplying if it's still business as usual) - the result we see is just plain bad service.
What would your next move be if you were Northerner? I think it's either die a slow death with the US warehouse or ditch it and go back to Sweden with their tails between their legs and start selling Swedish sweets and nordic jumpers again - personally I think they'll do the latter. But they have annoyed a lot of snus users around the world who won't trust them anymore with the farce they have become in the last 4 months. As I say - it doesn't affect me as they are unable to send snus from Sweden to the UK in the current situation.
The moral of this story ... well don't do what Northerner did!
I don't think they're going out of business. But I do think that they are slowly closing down the US warehouse without telling anyone that's happening. It's a shame that the EU business has meant that we lose both ways as we are not allowed to order from the Swedish warehouse. At least Northerner can go back to shipping from Sweden to the US like they did before.
This company started off by selling all things you could only normally get in Sweden to the rest of the world from their Swedish warehouse. One of those things was snus which quickly became the biggest thing they did ... and then the only thing they did with other tobacco products thrown in the mix ... then they started expanding in to the USA with the US warehouse and that was the first time any of us noticed a drop in the level of service from them. My guess is that they over-specialised and over-stretched themselves as a company at that point and have been trying to catch up ever since (nobody keeps that low a level of stock they are serious about supplying if it's still business as usual) - the result we see is just plain bad service.
What would your next move be if you were Northerner? I think it's either die a slow death with the US warehouse or ditch it and go back to Sweden with their tails between their legs and start selling Swedish sweets and nordic jumpers again - personally I think they'll do the latter. But they have annoyed a lot of snus users around the world who won't trust them anymore with the farce they have become in the last 4 months. As I say - it doesn't affect me as they are unable to send snus from Sweden to the UK in the current situation.
The moral of this story ... well don't do what Northerner did!
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