An Italian national has been arrested after attempting to enter Switzerland via the border crossing at Brustata with 100kg of undeclared foodstuffs. The man crossed the border in Ticino canton in a van and was picked up by a mobile police unit, Switzerland's Federal Office of Customs and Border Protection said on Tuesday. It was then discovered the man was transporting 66 panettones weighing 81kg in total. The Italian also had loaves of focaccia, 164 litres of oil, 5kg of meat and 28kg of mozzarella.
This growing exposure to foreign pricing, product range and service standards is subtly rewriting what people expect when buying locally. You now have instant access to global benchmarks, sometimes without even realising it. The simplicity of comparing multiple international sites in one place has normalised the idea that every transaction should be transparent, fast and competitively priced. The result is that British shoppers, once content with familiar high-street names, are beginning to demand the same level of choice and speed they experience from abroad.
A report from an SF Civil Grand Jury last year stated that the San Francisco firework explosions booming around the city are more likely from fireworks that are illegal in California but which are for sale in the neighboring state of Nevada.