Coop has opened its thousandth Swiss supermarket, in Emmen
The retailer has added 124 stores over the past decade, from central Geneva to Bettmeralp in the Valais.
Coop says 99% of the Swiss population now lives within 15 minutes of one of its shops by car, with an average drive of 4 minutes 53 seconds.
Around CHF 3.5 billion has been invested in modernising the stores over the last decade.
Cross border gun burglaries
French criminal networks are recruiting teenagers on Snapchat and TikTok to break into Swiss gun shops and feed the black market across the border
Crans Montana fire warning ignored
New evidence in the Crans-Montana fire inquiry shows the bar's operators warned their own staff about the danger of firework candles, then kept using them anyway
Vaud financial support in question
Three-quarters of the Vaud companies that received state financial support in 2025 did not actually need it to carry out their projects, a damning audit by the cantonal Court of Audit has found
US voting deadline approaching
Americans living in Switzerland have less than a month to vote in the US midterms on 3 November
Man wins Lausanne court case
The Federal Court has struck down the Ville de Genève's rule forcing city employees to live near the capital
SBB reports increase in incidents
Staff on Switzerland's rail network face around ten incidents of abuse or threat every working day, with insults, racist comments and physical attacks all on the rise since the pandemic
