Swiss-based Jumbo stores offer a great combination of products to improve your home and garden. Save time and energy and in just one trip, find plants and tools, candles and curtains, storage boxes (a very large selection) and paints, carpets and lamps, even skis, indoor and outdoor bikes and cleaning products, to name a few. As far as services go, some Jumbo stores will custom-cut carpets and glass, frames and curtains. They will also service your skis, bikes and lawn mowers. Two stores near Geneva, in Meyrin and Chavannes-de-Bogis, three more around the north side of Lake Geneva and several others throughout the country (see map of stores).
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Migros cooperative is launching the first soft drink that does not promote cavities. The drink, Good for me, is made with isomaltulose, a disaccharide, and a known non-cariogenic sucrose replacement. Good for me comes with the Happy Tooth label which means the product is guaranteed to be non-cariogenic and non-erosive. The drink comes out in all Migros supermarkets 23 October.
Migros is also recalling skis that have problem bindings. The skis, marketed through its SportXX sports stores, are:
- Salomon Lady Ski Origin Emerald (art. n° 4937.387) with the LZ 9 binding, and
- Atomic Kids Ski Race 8 (art. n° 4936.050) with the Evox 2.8 binding.
Leaves began to fall seriously last week in Vaud (Saint Prex)
First winter snow of 2009 above Aminona, Valais: 12 October
Update 14:00 Lausanne / Sierre, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – If anyone still had doubts, autumn has arrived, and in the Swiss Alps that means the first snowfall of the winter season, at high altitudes. Temperatures dropped during the night of Sunday to Monday in the Alps and while the cooler temperatures came with heavy rain around Lausanne, they brought snow to the Alps, starting at about 2000 metres altitude.
Tunnels closed, could snow down to 800 metres or lower
Heavy winds and snow were recorded in several parts of Switzerland by MeteoSwiss, the national weather service, with gusts well over 130 kph. Several tunnels closed Monday morning for the winter: Furka, San Bernardino, Klausen Nufenen and Grimsel.
Forecasts show snow falling to 800 metres in some areas, with temperatures falling: western Switzerland’s range Thursday 15 October is expected to be 2-8C, with even cooler temperatures in the east of the country, according to MeteoSwiss.
