Christmas dinner is traditionally applied for seasonal beers in addition to red wine. Non-alcoholic options are growing in popularity.Alko doors will open this year, also on christmas eve. Customers are served till noon. Alexander Pikkarainen
Alko keep their doors open this year, the usual more, thanks to the new alcohol act. Christmas eve shopping from a midsummer way, at 9-12.
Eve opening hours are expected to offset the preceding weekend traffic peaks:
Today, people are celebrating christmas quite a busy and professional tumult still work weekends. This brings them the opportunity to visit yet Monday shopping, said the Alko business director Kari Pennanen .
a Similar movement was observed already at easter, when Alko for the first time, be open with the new law and the stores serve easter Saturday.
– Then the message had gone very through and hours of operation were known. It sight on maundy Thursday so that was a little previous in a more quiet and part of Thursday of the customers come to shop on Saturday.
according to Pennanen law change to allow customers a better service.
– of Course we want to serve customers as well as possible and now we can keep the store open.
at Christmas the finns traditionally a christmas specialty drinks, christmas beer and mulled wine, in particular red wine. It Pennanen believes that this year, too.
on the other Hand, non-alcoholic products add all the time in popularity. So non-alcoholic wine as glögikin.