What's Systembolaget's Number One Stock Item?

It’s time for some trivia. Here are some interesting things we’ve found out in our travels through Systembolaget’s data.

Right now, there is 3 million SEK of Norrlands Guld Export sitting in Systemet stores across Sweden (…I wish I could buy it all). But what’s the most valuable item is at Systemet?

Bags! 45 million SEK worth of bags. A veritable kings ransom of plastic. It destroys its closest competitor Explorer Vodka at a mere 5.4 million SEK.

But maybe you’re not terribly interested in bags. So let’s ask a much more serious business question: How big of a party could I throw with all the Vodka in Stockholm?

Maybe you can think of a better question to ask if you had access to both geographically detailed and historical stock data, but I’m going to plan a party. There are around 19 500 litres of vodka sitting in store across Stockholm County, and if you poured it into one huge bottle the resulting drink would be 38.17%. Let’s say that ten 33ml shots of that is enough per guest. That makes our 19 500 litres enough for 65 thousand people. Which is a decent number of people. But at a price tag of 6.2 million SEK (plus snacks), it’s a party I won’t be throwing any time soon. If we were to go back in time and throw it the day of the first kräftskiva of the year (the first Wednesday of August), it would have been 21 thousand litres and 6.9 million SEK. That’s probably just standard fluctuation, but I like to imagine they were prepared.

That leaves more very practical and very useful question. How much of Globan’s 605,000 cubic meters volume could one fill with Systemet’s entire store inventory? The 14,307,793 litres of their stock could fill it up 2.31% full.

In later articles we’ll be looking at how to use this data to answer more realistic business questions. In particular, I think we could use geographic stock data to answer a lot more interesting questions. But this was fun for now. Thanks for reading!