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We’re shifting to cell phones for our online grocery orders

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:02:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss consumers are increasingly ordering groceries online using their mobile phones, reports LeShop.ch, the Migros online store. Sales coming in via iPhones, Androids and tablets more than doubled, to 11 percent of sales at CHF15 million. The rate of growth of mobile phone sales has been far higher than for computer-based sales [...]

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Down, down go the supermarket prices

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:36:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – You can pay less to colour your hair with Oreal and eat a Kellogg’s breakfast starting Monday. Migros and Coop have negotiated a second major round of price cuts with multinationals and some 2,000 products will cost less 29 August in their Swiss supermarkets and do-it-yourself stores. The two retailers are pushing [...]

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Strong franc: Migros to cut prices on 500 products

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:44:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, the Migros cooperative group, will cut prices on some 500 products Monday 22 August. The group says it has negotiated deals with several of its suppliers to pass on their currency gains from the strong franc to Swiss consumers, through price cuts. Coop and Denner, which belongs to [...]

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Swiss franc fallout: Coop, Denners cut some brands, yo-yo rates rule

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:24:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss franc was traded Monday in ranges of $1.2505-1.2867 and €.8734-.9025, according to Reuters, with the franc weakening early in the day after last week’s climb, thanks largely to the Swiss National Bank’s insistence that it will intervene if the safe haven impact on the franc’s position does not end. But [...]

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Migros has record profits despite lower sales

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:54:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Supermarket cooperative group Migros posted a 20.8 percent increase in profits, CHF846 million, in 2009 despite a 3.1 percent fall in sales, the company announced Tuesday 30 March. Turnover was CHF24.95 billion, of which retail sales were CHF21.04b. The figure was lower compared to 2008, says Migros, because of the lower [...]

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Coop supercard turns points into cash

Sean Ecker — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:55:09 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Coop supermarket shoppers will be able to use the points accumulated on their Supercard fidelity card to buy selected items from next 2 November. The items, marked Supercard selection, will be updated and changed regularly, the store says. Coop already allows its 2.8 million card users to exchange points to pay [...]

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British newsagents closing at rate of one a day

Sean Ecker — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:07:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The friendly corner newsagent in the UK is closing at the rate of over one day, a victim of competition from supermarkets, crime and the economic downturn. In 2008, 510 newsagents closed, 6.25 percent more than in 2007, reports the BBC. The national federation of retail newsagents (NFRN), which counts 17,500 members, wants the government [...]

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Migros lowers prices, combines 2 non-food units

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:04:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A battle has been brewing among supermarket chains, with lower prices the most obvious benefit to consumers. Migros Tuesday morning announced that it will lower the prices of 150 items in order to ensure its prices remain lower than those of its competitors. Coop follows it as the second largest supermarket chain [...]

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Migros to put supermarket customers on trains

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:41:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Migros, one of Switzerland’s two main supermarket chains, has come up with a surprising deal for its customers which is bound to make noise, not for the first time. Starting 30 December it is offering two one-day train passes for the price of one, CHF54 for two people to go anywhere on [...]

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Migros cutting back own-brands ads

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:14:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Updated 23:05 (correction) Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Migros, Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, will be cutting back advertising for its own brands, which now account for about 90% of the store’s merchandise, president of the Migros federations, Claude Hauser, told Illustré. The move is part of a larger cost-cutting programme to reduce ad expenditure by about [...]