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Amsterdam has this with Nutella-pancake-waffle-icecream parlours and vacuum-packed Gouda shops (which displace actually good cheese mongers that cater to locals
by Freak_NL 5y ago
Amsterdam has this with Nutella-pancake-waffle-icecream parlours and vacuum-packed Gouda shops (which displace actually good cheese mongers that cater to locals and visitors alike with a good selection of cheeses). Nobody really seems to know for sure, but it seems to be a combination of a shotgun approach to finding the golden location for a souvenir/tourist-experience shop and money laundering. These are, as the article points out, chains of shops with a murky web of owners behind it.
The Amsterdam municipality has stopped granting any new permits for these tourist shops now.
- lordnacho 5y agoSynergies with crime are massive. If you can make the business almost work legit then you can pump the amount of money through the books by quite a bit. At the same time if you are in a country where there's some sort of employment related benefit or you get higher unemployment after having worked, you can put a bunch of your gang on the payroll.