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  1. Sad theyre ready to just completely throw away their original values to appease modern society. I really respected migros a lot for putting morals before profits

  2. Finally! I have neither a Coop nor a Denner in walking distance. This has contributed to me drinking less at home. A tragedy that requires remedy.

  4. *Translation:*

    **Migros delegates’ meeting wants to abolish alcohol ban**

    + The necessary majority of the Migros delegates’ meeting has voted in favor of a change in the statutes. It could make alcohol sales in Migros stores possible.

    + Next, the regional cooperatives will take up the issue.

    The delegates had cleared the “democratic way” on the issue of alcohol sales, Migros announced early Saturday afternoon via Twitter.

    However, it will be a while before alcohol can be purchased in Migros stores – and there may be differences depending on the region.

    Starting in December, the administration and cooperative councils of the ten regional Migros cooperatives will decide whether to lift the ban. There, too, at least two-thirds of the respective bodies must agree. If this is the case, the cooperative members in their region can decide in a ballot on lifting the ban on alcohol sales.

    **Alcohol on the shelves in 2024 at the earliest**

    The ballots are scheduled to be held by June 4, 2022, Migros announced on its website. The decisions would be binding on Migros. In those Migros outlets whose cooperatives have voted in favor of the sale of alcohol by a majority of two-thirds, alcoholic beverages could thus be offered in the course of the year after next.

    In the run-up to the vote, the Blue Cross had warned against a “betrayal” of Migros’ DNA. The company risks losing its reputation as a socially responsible major retailer.

    **Subsidiaries sell alcohol**

    Until now, alcohol sales have been prohibited in Migros’ stationary stores, according to the company’s bylaws. The group itself has been indirectly circumventing this regulation for years by offering alcohol and, in some cases, tobacco products in its subsidiaries Denner and Migrolino, its Internet store leshop.ch, Migrol gas stations and partner stores VOI.

    As early as 1999, the delegates’ meeting decided that alcoholic beverages could be served in the restaurants of the cooperative’s golf clubs and leisure facilities.

    Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

  5. I don‘t know why many are so emotional on this topic. For me it simply doesn‘t play a role. I can understand though that alcoholics need a trigger-free shopping environment, but these aren‘t usually the people who are arguing emotionally on that. It‘s once again only the people who are not affected anyway.🙄

    On the other hand Migros‘s already selling alcohol at Migrol or Denner. The latter is another brand though and can be seen as separated from Migros, but Migrol is literally the exact same shop.

  6. Agree, they are anyway selling alcohol in Denner, Globus, Migrolino etc if they want to honor Duttwyler’s legacy they should abolish alcohol in all other shops too.

  7. As someone who doesn’t drink alcohol, I am happy about this decision.

    This way I won’t have to make an extra trip to the coop every time I need some cooking wine…

  11. I haven’t talked a lot about this with other people so far, nor read
    lots of opinions.

    However, I want to weigh in as somebody who has struggled with with
    alcohol abuse in the past. The easiest way to not abuse was just going
    to a Migros. In so many other stores it’s the first thing you see when
    coming in, and there’s huge sections for it too. Near me, there’s a
    Coop, Denner and Aldi, all next to each other. All of them have a wine
    section that makes up about a third of the store in space. Then there’s
    a section for beer as well, the cold beer is promintentely there as soon
    as you walk in, and when you pay usually the machine that is occupied is
    the one in front of a huge line of liquor and cigarettes. In the Coop I usually shop at, there is no possible path between entering and paying that does not lead past beer.

    It’s not even that I don’t like the products in those stores, most time
    I’d not go there soley to avoid having to fight the urge to buy something not once or twice (when not going into those stores) but constantly while just trying to get some fruits and bread.

    I get that there’s situations where it’s inconvenient, like if you don’t have a store besides Migros in your town or if you need some wine to cook. But if you do not struggle with abuse, then why don’t you buy some booze in a monthly trip to another place and store it at home, or hop over to the second store in your town that does sell this kind of stuff?
    As others have said, even if you want to stay close to Migros, go to Denner. But does really every store need to sell all these things? What’s next, cigarettes as well?

    Of course you get more money if you sell these things in every location. But that’s one of the things that I think Migros was early on very aware of. It’s not about making the most freaking money possible, their stores are comfortable, their food is nice, attract customers in different ways…

  13. I’m impressed someone is wasting time in shops with available online shopping. On top of it, alcohol is available in migros online.

  14. Won’t make much of a difference to me, personally, either way. I prefer Coop. I will ride my bike past 2 Migros just to go shopping at Coop instead. But, I’ve always found it odd that Migros won’t even sell wine for cooking in their stores. It makes no sense to me.

  15. I hope this doesn’t affect the variety of non-alcoholic stuff they sell. There are already few alcohol free beers in Switzerland, but I feel its easier to find them in Migros than Coop. My Coop only has the Feldschlosschen and this expensive Bern beer that sells for nearly 3fr a 300ml bottle.

  16. Idk I think they’d be betraying their founding principles. It’s certainly not what Duttweiler would have wanted.

  17. I know, bragging about alcohol consumption and functional alcoholism is really cool and edgy these days on reddit, but I don’t at all agree with this. Health costs in relation to addiction are about 7 billion chf every year in Switzerland. And if you really need to empty a bottle of wine every day, maybe a little walking to next coop/denner cant do no harm.

  19. That’s one of two naughty things usually sold at Denner now potentially being sold at Migros. Next stop cigarettes…..and then why even have a Denner?

  21. Prohibit and repealed same word å fruit is a fruit and a rotten fruit is trash, and I’m sure ce own post, a blew, and a bleed, and a rep and a seed, I’m just and ogre with a a birds tail weed, these callous hands have killed several å fiend.

  22. It’s weird because just yesterday I was thinking about this „ban“ on my way to migros and wondering if that allowed then to have more products per store space and how it affects the store layout. There’s a denner just as you step put of that migros so booze isn’t a problem. Just have to queue twice…

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