To all the remaining members of the MIGROS cooperative

An all die übrig gebliebenen MIGROS Genossenschafterinnen und Genossenschafter

The Federation of Migros Cooperatives (FMC) recently presented the figures for 2024. This means that we, as Migros Cooperative members, will soon be kindly invited to approve the annual proposals of the respective Cooperative in exchange for a bar of chocolate. However, the past financial year was not like the previous ones. With its new strategy and the selling off of profitable Migros companies such as Hotelplan and Mibelle abroad, the MIGROS management has not only angered many members of the Cooperatives, but also large sections of the population. Once again, it has become clear that the minimum legal requirements for cooperatives are simply no longer sufficient in today's world. Arrogant managers have taken up residence in cooperatives and set up structures that allow them to run them like a kingdom.
Although the damage has already been done, it is clear to me that Ursula Nold, President of the FMC Administration, and Mario Irminger, President of the FMC General Management, should be removed from their posts. Their strategy is not supported by the members of the Cooperatives. This is clearly demonstrated by the almost 40,000 resignations in 2024, according to media reports. If you are one of those who reject the new strategy, I appeal to you to REJECT all proposals from your cooperative and thus send a clear vote of no confidence in the Migros management.

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All replies (3)

Dragonball

Let's be honest... without the Migros supermarkets, the stores would hardly have survived. The current bankruptcies or closures of many other chains show the same picture.

What Migros is doing is no different to what Sainsburrys (uk) and other chains are doing: refocusing on the core business.

There will always be departures, as everyone is never happy with a strategy.

At the moment, the system of either cheap or expensive works everywhere... in the textile market, in the furniture market, etc.

Mario Irminger's current strategy seems correct to me. Back to simple Migros, with own brands as the target focus at very good prices.

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MHaefliger

Dragonball

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That's not true at all. Neither Hotelplan nor Mibelle had to be cross-subsidized. And why can Jumbo, Ochsner, Dosenbach or the independent Micasa be profitable but not under the Migros umbrella? Because the regional princes call the shots in the Migros kingdom and the structures are therefore expensive and inefficient!

Migros is a cooperative and not a company geared towards maximizing profits. And speaking of the core business, if you look at the history of Hotelplan and Mibelle and compare them with the areas that were not sold off, you can see that the statement is useless here too. Pure managerial platitudes. Medbase, Migros Bank, Migrolino, Movimi, Alnatura and all the rest are supposed to be core business, but Hotelplan and Mibelle are not. That's laughable.

Well, you can talk up anything and 40,000 in one year is really not a meaningful figure...

If the strategy was more own brands, Mibelle wouldn't have been sold abroad and its products pushed more and more to the side on the shelves to make room for foreign brands such as NIVEA, Lenor, Persil, Plenty and so on.

For me, none of their arguments are even remotely valid.

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jeep

MHaefliger

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I agree with you, also the treatment of longtime employees is sad, Do It and Garten for example closes the business without having the possibility to get a job in another Migos, inviting them to the big party, dismissal and then again disinvitation because they don't work there anymore, not like that, antisocial and not cooperative as the founder thought : (

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