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[edit] Migros Ethic?

Are you sure they don't sell alcohol? I believe I saw an entire alcohol section in a Migros the other day. I'll try and confirm this tomorrow. 83.76.246.203

They never did and they still don't. Perhaps you were in a Coop.

You are right, they don't sell alcohol in the actual Migros shops. Seems a bit hypocritical, though, for in big MMM shopping centres, there is often a Denner (or, formerly, a Pick Pay) shop selling alcohol and tobacco - not "officially" part of Migros but on room owned and hired out to Denner by Migros. Gestumblindi 02:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure I've seen alcohol in two Migros stores in Basel. Itub 10:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I checked again one of the stores and it turns out it is a "Migros partner" (apparently a sort of franchise; perhaps this should be mentioned in the article). It agree that it is hypocritical to boast that they don't sell alcohol for "ethical reasons", when so many stores under their brand name actually do sell it (whether directly operated by them or not). Itub 11:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Main competitor

The article claims that Coop is Migros's main competitor. This seems a bit unlikely as the sixth Rochdale Principle is that cooperatives cooperate with each other. In other countries, coops agree to divide up markets between them. Surely Migros and Coop do the same. If not, please add an appropriate citation to the article. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, they do compete with each other. Just because they are co-ops doesn't mean that can't compete, even though it was only since a few years ago that uncompetitive practices were ruled illegal in Switzerland. 159753 (talk) 18:48, 22 April 2008 (UTC)