User:Hummelmora/Jakob Hansen

Jakob Hansen, born 1972 in Västerås, Västmanland is a Swedish buisness entrepenaur. Hansen is mostly famous in Sweden because he has banned all products containing alcohol. It started with the removal of a Swedish fruitdrink called Cider (mostly flavored with apple or pear) containing alcohol and continued towards BBQ-sauces containg alcohol and even Red liquor (A Swedish cleaning liquid colored red contaning high levels of alcohol) and latley even cleaningsoaps.

This has made one of the bigger red liquor-producers in Europe mad and have filed a lawsuit aginst Jakob Hansen because he is discriminating their product just because it contains alcohol. The producer means their red liquor isnt made for drinking because it would have badly effects on the peoples health, its made to be used as cleaning or as fuel in mostly campinggear. Jakob Hansen means things containing alcohol should only be handled by Systembolaget, a Swedish-govermentowned company that is the only one allowed selling alcohol-beverages on Swedish soil. Critics means Hansen has missunderstood what Systembolagets real purpose is and hope the red liquor-producer will win the lawsuit. The verdict will be announced next year (2014).

Jakob Hansens store is the only grocceriestore in Sweden that dont accept creditcards, it only accepts cash. The store accepts cash from all over the world which also can be consider the only place in the world this is allowed. The store also uses a special tabsystem which gives the customers fully trust in making payment when they feel like it. This also means the customers dont even have to pay for the stuff they buy if they dont feel like it. Jakob Hansen has said this really makes the store as the customers want, if they dont want to pay, the store will have a low variety of gods, if they pay the price it costs, the store will have a normal variety of gods and if they even pay some extras the store will have a really good variety of gods that no ordinary stores will have. Studies of this tabsystem shows 83 percent pay the price which the store asks for the gods and 25 percents even pay a higher price than the store asks. It is also showed just before Swedish holidays people tend to pay in average 20 percent more what the gods really costs, and right after the holidays ends people tend to pay in average 3 percent under the gods real price. This makes the profit about 17 percent during this special timeperiods and Jakob Hansen means this makes up for the customers not paying.

This system is truly something really unique in the world and some swedish scientists means this is something completly new and calls it humancapitalism, a way to focus on the humanaspects in capitalism. There is even a couple of german scientists that calls this Hansenism, but this has met with scepcism because there already is a term called that which instead describes climatehysteria. A german scientific newspaper have suggested the term should instead be Jakobism but the scientists refuses the idea because they mean it has too strong connections towards religion itself.

Some people state Jakob Hansen is the famous Swedish storeowner Harry Franzens counterpart, where Harry Franzen is very openminded about alcohol, Jakob Hansen is instead very closeminded about alcohol. Some even state Jakob Hansen is the ABBA-member Björn Ulvaeus counterpart where Björn Ulvaeus is completly against cash as a legitimate payment when Jakob Hansen only supports cash as a legitimate payment.