Tom
But, they do take my Cumulus card, unlike other 'partners'.
Legally, yes. However, youngsters find a way to bypass this quite easily.
And the chance in getting away with it raises by the size of the shop. So not very difficult in a supermarket, not impossible at a kiosk (where price level however is higher).
Just as explained on the Migrolino-WEBsite
and much the same in regard to Migrol, where the petrol-stations also are franchisees
http://www.migrol.ch/de/Tankstellen.aspx
and of course also the same in case of ExLibris, SportXX + MiCasa
From today's Tagi:
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wirtscha...story/29999400
(Migros president broaches a tabu subject - selling wine in the stores.)
Most definitely in Lugano.
Tom
An interesting move. Bad that he only comes up with it half a year before retirement, as it will take years until the idea will be through. A lot may depend on his successor
Funny anecdote re: this subject...
An Iranian who moved in below us has decided to try out a few habits that are a bit taboo in his home country, a little gambling here, some cigarettes and of course, drinking. After living here for a few months and drinking pretty regularly, we met up at a party.
I looked at his six-pack of beer and what do I see? "alkoholfrei" Turns out he's been shopping at Migros for his goods
This is funny, I can't believe how long I spent looking the first time!
Why dont^t they place a Notice Board stating that these two items are NOT sold at the premises??
Try this
The only Denner that could by in the reach of youngsters (from cpt) is the one in Via Trevano and maybe at Savosa. All the others are really far away from downtown Lugano and from everything. Much easier simply going to Coop then.
Because virtually everybody living in Switzerland knows about that?
Or Viganello.
In any case, if not a DDenner, then some other shop (Coop, Manor) is always near.
Hell, in Tesserete, there is BOTH a Denner and a Coop nearby the Migros.
Same in Agno.
And not to mention all the kebab places, and they sell beer, I've bough it there myself!
Really, to think that Migros selling alcohol would change anything about teenage drinking is silly.
Tom
they do not sell any alcohol stuff. you can find it at Denner or Coop.
Cheers
Gee, you miss my point:
It's quite easy for youngsters to get alcohol in 2 circumstances: Big stores where employees are busy and forget to ask for id or age,
small shops or kiosks (Aperto in the station e.g.) where many adults pass by that could get alcohol for them.
All that of course mostly in the neighbourhood of the teenies' meeting points during maybe lunch break and for sure late afternoon.
Migros at Lugano (like in quite every middle sized town in CH) holds 1st class position in all city centers (like Manor or former Innovazione, but more expensive than Migros), Coop (or ex Epa) only sometimes does, Denner quite never.
No one would ever buy alcohol at Denner and then come back bring it to sit there in the Migros entrance, that's it, and in CH - unlike in Germany, Scandinavia, maybe the UK - you cannot walk around with beer and wine, at least not when visibly minor (like in Italy, very odd drinking while walking, being drunken and alcohol in public).
So if Migros shifts from prohibition to free selling policies, I think it would have an impact.
When Migros wants to sell alcohol, they change their name to "Denner".
Kind of like when the priest at your church wants to get stone-faced drunk he waits until Mardi Gras, puts on a mask and changes his name to "Bruce."
My 24 heures (VD) of today reports that the President of the Migros Coop, Claude Hauser of Geneva, has proposed that Migros supermarkets should sell wine. (but not tobacco). This was copied from the Sonntag newspaper of yesterday.
Reactions? Negative from traditionalists, and anti-alcohol organisations. Positive from Swiss wine-growers (and me).
A positive from me too.
Exactly the same happened to me on Wednesday... after wandering around the whole supermarket looking for a sad bottle of wine I dared to ask an employee (I do not speak any Italian yet!) and said "m'escusi... vino e birra?" And he made a face of horror and said "no, no!!! No alcohol here!!" or something like that.
I left Migros thinking that I had broken a Swiss taboo, like doing laundry on Sundays or something similar
Migros has always been non-alcohol, that’s what the original patron decreed and that’s what they stick to. They used to have the Pick ‘n’ Pay stores too where you could buy it, and now they own Denner as well which also stocks booze. So they have found ways around the “no alcohol” issue, it’s just you won’t find any in a Migros store.
Yes, I know it now, thank you! It surprised me so much that I did some research on the Internet (and I also found this thread in the forum).
I have arrived to Switzerland only 12 days ago... I am still being surprised of how differently things work in this country, despite of being surrounded by France, Italy and Germany... Specially Ticino, where I am, since it is "isolated" from the rest of Switzerland and geographycally into Italy, works the Swiss way. It is certainly an interesting country.