The Hornbach here is open from 7 AM to 7 PM, six days a week.
That’s why tradesmen show up there.
Is it really too much to ask to translate at least the headline to English? (or even French or Italian if you object to folks here not speaking a Swiss language). Yes, it’s not a huge burden for the reader to do so, but nor would it be for you.
There’s that - but getting back to my point - they wouldn’t show up if Hornbach didn’t have the items they needed, would they?
Migros, on the other hand, even stocked a couple of their DIY outfits with, in their words, a “joie de vivre” concept where people could buy stuff to make as a wellness, mental health problem.
Fine but that’s not going to get that wall painted or that door fitted.
As I wrote - they offer the public what they think they want or should have. And they wonder why they are going down the pan.
Actually “have gone”. The last Do it shop closes in June.
No it isn’t. I explicitly remember noticing yesterday that French articles are being linked without posters getting bashed for it though.
I also did mention in English what the headline was about: “I wonder if and what changes when Obi runs it on it’s own.”
While I do think people should speak or at least understand the language of the area they spend their lives in (but definitely in the Swiss case not all four languages 
), there was no “teaching purpos” behind this. It was just a quickly posted link in between doing other things.
So there you go:
“The OBI Group is taking over the ten existing OBI stores, plus one Migros OBI store still under construction and two large Do it + Garden stores. The 576 employees and 61 apprentices will continue to be employed.”
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I was talking about Migros generally.
They’ve had to sell off a lot of their assets.
They also have tradesman rates and special bulk purchase areas for tradesmen, they cater for much more than the Migros shops ever did.
Migros was more of a hobby DIY and craft store than a serious building materials merchant.
this. And at that it used to be very good in the (very) old days.
And the last hardware store in Nyon has also closed. Many of the tradesmen used to go there.
Yes. 3 left . But one has to share them with others.
Next they will say Digitec is closing.
the advantage of sitting on each others laps is you don’t slip off so easily. You might wanna try in in trams too.
THey call the new tables “chat tables”. ( Plaudertische)
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First the “Plauderkasse” (chat-check-out), now the “Plaudertische” (has a separate table ever stopped anyone to have a chat if desired?). What a depressing society we seem to live in.
However, Migros at the stage at which it is in is pretending to promote cohensity?
Whom are they trying to foo
Digitec were doing really well until Migros bought them.
Then they started running it “the Migros way” and things started going wrong.
They appear to be back to a better operation but nowhere as good as before Migros owned it - from a customer point of view.
Still, they must be doing something right as lots of the competition has shut up shop including Microspot, PC-Ostschweiz, Techmania and Steg.
I believe most of the profit from the last years came from Galaxus/Digitec.
It’s still a good shop with good search.
Though I have to say I don’t order often and I never had to return or RMA something 
I hope they don’t relax now they don’t have so much competition.
I’ve had stuff “in stock” take a couple of weeks which is like the good old days of online shopping here.
It’s always “in stock”. Just not at Digitec/Galaxus
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They need a Swiss Musk to weed out the beaurocrats who are sitting up there in their glass offices.
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Pretty much cutting off Swiss customers from Amazon gave them the advantage. If I can buy in Digitec with home delivery I don’t bother with the ship to EU workaround.
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