This is something that I as an immigrant always find so confusing about Swiss mentality: you have a product that people want (the Christmas mugs), you have a mechanism to get money for it (the deposit), and you’re not only crying foul but saying it’s a crime!? Sorry but if there’s a deposit, then there’s no crime. Increase the deposit cost, produce more, come to grips with the fact that people want them as souvenirs, and use the extra money to wipe your tears. To complain that it’s not ecologic that people buy a mug and keep it at home all year, and to intentionally make the product worse, is just moronic. It’s a kind of business naivety and blindness that just makes no sense to me.
https://www.20min.ch/story/weihnachtsdorf-bellevue-zehntausende-tassen-weg-gluehweintassen-sammler-schlagen-zu-103474554
Posted by ObviouslyLOL
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Just increase the deposit for the few people that will bring them back?
Please stop reading 20min.
I always break the mug before leaving, that’s makes gluhwine very expensive! 😏
Maybe just change your media outlet?
> you have a mechanism to get money for it (the deposit), and you’re not only crying foul but saying it’s a crime!? Sorry but if there’s a deposit, then there’s no crime.
Would you say you own the shopping cart from your supermarket because you put a 1.- deposit in it? 😉
Of course the relation between deposit and value of the product is completely different when it comes to the mugs. But still you can’t say “deposit = no obligation to bring it back”.
Completely agree with you OP. Feels to me like 20min purposefully makes this more controversial than it needs to be.
These mugs cost like a buck, theyre paid for by the deposit
I can understand to a certain degree that you might run into a shortage of cups when too few people bring theirs back.
What I cannot understand are the ecological reasons that they are stressing several times in the article.
This has nothing to do with the Swiss mentality. (Whatever that is)