I went to my local Coop today and noticed that products that are normally 50% off at that time (salad, baked goods, meat) were marked at a maximum of 40% off. Is that a new strategy? One more reason to avoid Coop?

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Posted by Wonderful_Plant_945

28 Comments

  1. Emotional-Ad-552 on

    I heard of this before. Apparently some Places had these a while ago. But looks like Coop implemented them everywhere now

  2. Suspicious_Place1270 on

    one mor reason to avoid coop, you said it. I know their marketing department, and they are malignantly greedy

  3. Yup, that is something new. 40% are still a better deal than the full price.
    But it feels shady when you think about the slogan: “Verwenden statt Verschwenden”.
    Since now a lot probably will be just thrown away cause people will not like that the “discount” is now less than 50%.

  4. Famous_Room1124 on

    20% und 40% respektive

    anstatt 25/50

    aber hey sie hättet au 39.95% chöne mache

  5. bawdy-awdy-awdy-awdy on

    This is crazy! It was helping to reduce food waste to discount things! Why would they knock up margins on shit they will just throw away at the end of the day.

    ETA: they already had a 25% sticker too..

  6. MeYouUsStories on

    It is now for many many months.
    No surprise here. Sorry and unfortunately.

    And one of the reason is that they have now regular offers of 50%discount or two for one. So in a marketing guy’s brain this is a conflict.

  7. But they give discount earlier… So 10% less but you can get it not only on the date it expires

  8. ChampionshipUsed308 on

    Its funny how during the pandemic Coop was better than Migros and now I changed to Migros instead. Overall meat prices are a bit better in Migros, and they have nice and cheap BBQ-relates stuff that I can toss in the airfryer

  9. In my old local Coop they realised people regularly checked the meat section for discounts, so they swapped the 50% for 30%, and then I don’t know if for fun but they sometimes had some random stickers like 23% lol.

  10. In Bern and Neuchatel they freeze meat on the last day before expiry and still offer it at 50% at least this week it was still there.

  11. GasIllustrious743 on

    Yep. We were informed. But we were also told, that these reductions will be done during the day now, as before this happend only shortly before closing down for the day.

  12. Avoid Coop, Migros and Denner & shop at Lidl and Aldi. Let them fail and close for all I care….
    Swiss supermarts don’t give a damn about the people. They reduced their staff by like 70% with Auto-checkout counters. Unemployment is at an all time high, Wages of the employed people has been stagnant for a decade where as the cost of living (rent, health insurance, inflation) has skyrocketed.
    Better buy at Lidl/Aldi or even better if you could drive to Konstanz and do your weekly shopping.

  13. Didnt they justify it because now they will put the 40% Stickers on the products much earlier than the 50% stickers which only got used in the last few hours before closing?

  14. Cheap_Explorer_6883 on

    A small Coop over here once was throwing fresh focaccie away. They were doing 50% but then they realized many people were doing groceries 10 mins before. They stopped. Ive asked if i could purchase those focaccie at 50%, they said no and kept putting them in trash bag