Refill for hygiene and cleaning products

Refill für Hygiene- und Reinigungsprodukte

Guest

I would think it would be extremely great if you offered refill stations for your own-brand hygiene and cleaning products in your stores. As a customer, I wouldn't have to buy a new cell phone detergent every time, for example, but I could simply refill my used cell phone bottle. This would save you some transportation costs, recycling costs and packaging material and (hopefully) save me a few cents in my pocket.

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Guest

Dear @mammaglossi

We are very pleased that you are sharing this current topic with us. The Handy Refill Station product proposal sounds very exciting. I would be happy to find out from the department responsible whether this can be realized.

I'll let you know as soon as I get more information.

Kind regards

Marina

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Guest

Hello @mammaglossi

I got feedback from my colleagues regarding your idea of the refill installation, the idea itself is fantastic.

However, the feasibility looks more complex:

The maintenance of the machine would make the product so expensive that the prices would become unacceptable for ourcustomers.

Product safety is not guaranteed with this refill solution. The declarations on the back of the product are mandatory under Swiss law.

The device takes up a lot of space, so we would have to remove various products from our range.

The ingredients change at regular intervals (to improve quality or for legal reasons)

When decanting into a container or bottle, the product can become contaminated with bacteria, so we can no longer guarantee the 2-year warranty on the product.

We work on the sustainability of our products and services at various levels. You can also read all our promises online at https://generation-m.migros.ch/de/versprechen~abfall-recycling=customCategories~.html

Last year, for example, we were able to ecologically optimize a total of 56 individual packaging items. For example, the PET bottles of our cult ice tea now contain 35% recycled PET, which saves 75.6 tons of new material every year. By reducing the cardboard thickness of many cookie packs, 22.5 tons less cardboard are needed each year. In total, Migros has been able to ecologically optimize 3,437 tonnes of packaging material since 2013.

Kind regards

Marina

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Alteshaus

It's funny that health food stores have been able to stock everything for many years and Migros can't. Even in the smallest of spaces. Health food stores also abide by the law. They only refill the original bottles. I refill all my cleaning products, detergents, Shamppo and shower gel. Always in the same bottles. For years. We are never sick.

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dh5453

That's right, even bulk consumers have canisters with bottling or high-consistency systems. Here, too, the same bottles are filled again and again.
Whether the "hygiene problem" can be solved, I don't know. But I think the range could be reduced somewhat. There would certainly be more space. There are certainly solutions, according to the motto of a competitor: "Actions not words".......

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