Plauderkasse do a lot of good. It doesn‘t cure loneliness but it helps and lots of people like it?
I’m not against it, I just find it strange Migros makes such a point of it. Around here there are always chats at the check-out (Migros as well as Coop, not at Lidl I admit). Some people know each other but also between people who never saw each other and never will again most likely. There’s a joke, a laugh or an agreeing-on-something that one mentions. Just like these silly “Märkli” are always passed on to the next in line who wants them. Not according to the original idea of the shops, I suspect.
I don’t know, I must live in a different world 
Just like I’ve never been shouted at / did never shout at anybody at a check-out which some people here claim to be a Swiss thing.
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Next, they will start selling beer with 4+% alcohol to improve the chat 
By the way dear Basel-lings how is the Stücki doing these days?
Does it still earn the moniker: “Stücki-Mausoleum?
If someone starts chatting on the check out and there are 20 people in line I tell the person stop their senseless chatting.
Cutting off? I still order as normal.
At least the TV repairman is still in business.
https://www.ep-online.ch/de/tv-audio-reparatur-service
Migros has also divested its three stores in neighboring France (two MMM and one MM), located just across the border from Geneva. These stores have now been taken over by Système U, known informally as Magasins U, a French coopérative.
Migros France sourced its French products from Cora, while also importing Swiss products from Migros Geneva. Interestingly, the Swiss imports were often priced lower in France than in Switzerland, making Migros France an attractive shopping destination for GE/VD residents looking for better deals.
When I was a kid visiting my paternal grandparents in Canton Vaud, near Geneva, during the New Year holiday, we occasionally shopped at Migros Thoiry. However, we only bought French-origin products, as my grandpa found it absurd to purchase Swiss products in M France, pay French TVA and then bring them back into Switzerland.
Officially, Migros cites its longstanding difficult relationship with Carrefour as the main reason for its withdrawal from France. Since Carrefour recently acquired Cora, continuing the supply partnership that Migros France relied on became unviable, ultimately leading to its decision to exit the French market.
I see also that Migros Sport has been sold to Ochsner, as of next week. Half of their shops will be rebranded, I guess the other half will be closed.
Le magasin spécialisé SportX a été vendu à Ochsner Sport. 24 des 49 sites de SportX ont été repris au 1er mars 2025 et continueront à être exploités sous la marque Ochsner Sport
That’s been ongoing since the start of the year here. The sportX shop had a sale and had been progressively getting smaller and smaller until they eventually closed on Tuesday.
They were in the process of boarding the store up when I went past yesterday.
It was a huge store and is not being taken over by Ochsner which isn’t really surprising as there is already an Ochsner sport store in Neuchâtel and this one was practically next to Decathlon.
Probably here too, I just hadn’t noticed it. The Ochsner shop at Collombey closed a couple of years ago, presumably couldn’t compete with the Decathlon on the next block. I just happened to be looking at ski rental for someone and came across it by chance.
It was next door to the post office in the big shopping centre here so I walked past quite often.
I see Migros have eye and hearing stores now.
Although The Mall of Switzerland (in Ebikon) was Arab funded - it’s basic premise is that it is a Migros-shop mall (rather than a COOP one).
It has three floors.
One is empty of shops and in total there are now only 40 out of 125 units occupied.
The Migros restaurant has closed. Adidas and Starbucks amongst others have pulled out.
The Migros supermarket does have shoppers in it but as the shopping center cost half a billion USD, that’s quite an expensive supermarket.
The cinema is the best in the area though.
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About the only thing consumers still want to buy in the shops is groceries, including booze and cigarettes. Sorry Migros, your train has left the station.
Not anymore the hearing aid business got sold to Neuroth
Thats why they still own Denner and have them next door to most Migros.
It seems to show only now how much Migros really dissipated it’s energies - as if it had not looked bad enough so far.
And what was it doing abroad? I was pretty surprised to see a Migros in the background of a photo a friend sent me from Turkey last summer.
Also their claim that they lower the prices permanently and already have don on 500+ products I have not noticed yet. Particularly last week I dropped by there and actually had mainly “Aktion” products and even some Budget ones and ended up on the high side of my average.
Migros stepped their feet into medical startups and got burned badly.No due diligence and now getting out of that…if they can’t turn the ship around and compete with companies in their fields who pivot much faster the writing will be on the wall for the whole group…
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IMO What has occurred with Migros expansion is a Swiss corporate problem in general. Believe that when a Swiss firm starts going international they start dreaming of being #1 globally and then they over expand, over invest and get burned. Swiss Air is the perfect example. CS is another. UBS had to be saved not too long ago.