The nerve to already complain that last weeks halving of VAT exemption from CHF 300 to 150 is not enough (he wants it to be CHF 50).
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He could also try lowering his prices?
Problem with this limit is not so much for shopping, but punishes those who are buying souvenirs and gifts when coming back from far afield destinations.
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These jokers at Swissinfo cannot even correctly quote the guy. Guess they went to Migros Klubschule for jounalists. And anybody else finds it hilarious that Migros wants to open another 140 stores in Switzerland when they cannot manage their margins in the existing business?
Where on earth are they going to put them?
I wondered whether they are going to do a MacDonalds and put them next to every other supermarket in the hope that the others lose sales and close down.
Tesco did this in the UK.
They lowered prices for some products, but mostly for vegetables. If you eat meat your bill won’t be much lower than before.
There are many villages and resorts that have very limited shopping possibilities. I’m glad that they are going to do this. Shopping during holidays will be much easier. Also I prefer Migros to Volg or Spar.
Well, I know where one is rumoured to go: Matran. Coop recently moved out of their centre there, though they built a smaller supermarket opposite, and Migros are rumoured to be moving in later this year or early next iirc. Very strange since they already have a big place about a kilometre away up on the nearby hill so would have two very close to each other. Unless they plan to move out of that one.
How are you so sure they are going to put them in villages and resorts.
The Mall of Switzerland, the biggest shopping mall in Switzerland, built and finished just as malls were going out of vogue in the rest of the world, is a Migros entity with a giant Migros but little else apart from a few Migros-owned shops, it lies dormant.
Perhaps they’ll build more “Migros” shopping malls containing that no one wants and no one will use?
What for if they are getting rid from the non-food departments like SportX, Micasa, m-electronics etc? In the biggest Migros in the center of Zurich the lowest floor is now occupied by other businesses like Ochsner Sport etc. They do not need shopping malls because they have nothing to fill them with.
I like Migros shopping malls near the exits from the highway in the central Switzerland. They have huge parking lots and are very convenient for grocery shopping on the way from Zurich to the mountains (exactly because you will have only small Volg or Spar nearby during the week of holidays unless you spend your holidays in very expensive and overcrowded resort). Also Migros Restaurant is very handy to eat lunch with kids before shopping.
I wish these malls were open on Sunday though, at least only Migros, not the whole shopping mall and at least during school holidays.
I misunderstood the headline. I thought they were talking about foreigners in Switzerland getting tax refunds because goods are exported.
VAT refund is a 2-way street. Tourists in Switzerland also get their VAT (or a fraction) of it for the purchases in Switzerland. They travel back home with their luxury items and everyone is happy. I have no time to find better data, but it seems the VAT refund business is booming Shopping guide, Guide to shopping abroad - Global Blue official site | Global Blue
So, buying a couple kilos of beef abroad…oh that’s nasty and shameful. VAT refund and duty free shops in airports? Great business and ensuing taxation is the problem of another country.
It seems the wishes of the Migros guy were granted. Swiss shopping tourists are taxed more when using the QuickZoll app. This app only considers VAT as 8.1%, no lower rate of 2.6% for food.
That was already known mid March 2024. Published by 20Minutes in German.
As they didn’t use the time to solve this problem we must assume it is wilful fraud. By the Swiss government 
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