Allora oggi stavo facendo la spesa da Coop e ho subito sentito che la borsa era troppo leggera… ho testato alcune buste, pesavano tutte intorno agli 800 gr nonostante 1 kg dichiarato sulla busta. Questo era vero per tutte le borse con marchio Coop, ho finito per acquistare un’altra marca che dichiarava 2 kg e la borsa pesava 1,9 kg, quindi di più con un margine di errore accettabile… le borse Coop sembrano davvero sgonfie, sembra un tentativo davvero vergognoso di restringimento.
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J’avais jamais pensé à faire ça
This has nothing to do with shrinkflation. It’s simply an error.
I guess they dry out over time
Send this picture to Coop directly and ask them what is happening
It is not Shrinkflation.. it is worst
Isn’t it illegal to do that? I’ll check my local coop today whether it is same. We should contact consumer protection agency if it’s a global issue.
How dare you using their own tools against them
They’re probably weighted wet and with time they become much drier. This seems a little too much tho.
Send coop this picture and cc frc.ch! One bag is an error, several bags is an attempted scam.
Fraudflation
An old Swiss neighbor of mine used to say this, that she only shops at Migros because coop cheats , I thought it was an old wife’s tale… 😂
That’s why your pay more at Coop /s
Tolerable negative weight TN2 on this would be 60g lower than what’s listed on the package. This would get them into serious trouble…if this country had decent consumer protection laws.
That is not shrinkflation, that’s FRAUD right there. Don’t know how it goes here but where I come from there’s a whole office in the government that handles this kind of issue. A company last year was heavily fined for 1.8g (yes, grams) in 500g rice bags. There’s probably a Swiss government entity that would look into that and would (hopefully) fine them.
That bag looks like the top part of it may be propped up against the green crate behind it, which would falsify the results, and we don’t see the bottom part of the picture, where OP could potentially just be lifting the weight slightly with their finger/body.
If that picture is legit, then yeah that’s not right, but it wouldn’t be the first time some people lie on the internet for… reasons.
Have you tried it with milk, too? Since it is a liquid, it can be portioned more adequately and you can use it to calibrate the scale. I suppose, there is an error on the scale, too. Next step would be trying the same bag on different scales to see where fruits and vegetables are cheapest.
Did you test on different scales too? Perhaps the scale was miscalibrated. Not to defend Coop, of course. It’s unacceptable if true.
Only Migros
Coop is trying everything.
Did you check another scale?
If the scale is poorly calibrated, they would actually be losing money on every vegetable sold.
I doubt they are doing that because they know how much trouble they could be in. Have you considered that the scale could be miscalibrated?
I’ve just checked the bag of potatoes I got from Migros this morning: 4% lower weight than advertised, 2400gr instead of 2500gr. And that includes the packaging.
The great Swiss potato scam of 2026?
It is really 1kg of potatoes, it’s actually the packaging that’s 190 grams. Jesus some of you never studied the maths and it shows
/s
Die werden dich auf ihre Toleranzen zurückweisen. Theoretisch: 30 Säcke: 10 zu sxhwer, 10 zu leicht, 10 genau 1 Kg
TBH it might be difficult to put exactly 1kg of potatoes in a bag. But 20% off is a lot.
I always avoid Coop whenever I can unless I am in a rush. I opt for Migros or Lidl, much cheaper and these things don’t tend to happen
I mean I could imagine potatoes losing moisture over time and thus getting lighter. So 1kg at packaging ends up being less than that on the shelves. But as a vendor they should be taking that into account and overpacking because 20% loss is ridiculous!
According to [this](https://www.newsd.admin.ch/newsd/message/attachments/83006.pdf) no more than 1.5% is legal. So that 1kg bag needs to be 985g at the very least.
Similar but not exactly the same, I noticed for some products my local shop puts the same label on every pack when it’s supposed to be sold by the 100g or by the kg – so for salmon, for example, every package (more than 20) had exactly the same label, when they could not possibly have had the same mass. Maybe they did it so the price was for our favor, but I doubt it – and I saw a couple weeks later the exact same price labels, for the exact same product, with again different masses. I have photos too, because I saw it as an obvious example of fraud.
Like the drug dealers from around the corner!
its a special kind of potatoes. that is that one that loose weight from harvest/packaging to store – sideffect you can eat tons from that and loose weight during eating.
if thats the case – praise coop for keeping that very rare, superhealthy, biological wonder soo cheap…
if dont, ask them directly and decide the way you will choose after (hopefully) getting an satisfying answer.
may the force be with you 😉
What if was 1kg when bagged and water dried out from it partially since? Potatoes are practically starch+water
Migros is my love is my life
Perhaps it’s moisture loss after packaging, especially if stored incorrectly (too dry or warm), but weight reduction must stay within legal tolerances of course.
please write here
https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Werbe_Geschaeftsmethoden/Unlauterer_Wettbewerb/Beschwerde_melden/Beschwerde_unlautere_Geschaeftspraktiken.html
That might be an explanation. ???
Fresh potatoes typically contain nearly 80% water.
Potatoes can lose water during prolonged storage or with strong ventilation.
Mine was 995g
“Take off 19% weight. They wont notice. Probably.”
Funny, cause there have been an extreme overload of produced potatoes this year in Europe. Like 4 million kilo too much in Germany alone. They were giving them away for free in Berlin I read some weeks ago.
But are you paying for 1kg at a fixed price for the package, or per 100g? Maybe you can somehow tell the kassensturz people, or someone with legal authority (I have no idea who). If they charge you for 1kg that’s illegal.
The amounts of people here who are asking to be scammed is ridiculous. They are literally asking to get abused by fraudsters. Where is the self-respect? Yes, potatoes do dry out. But do you realise that a bakery for example has to make sure their bread is AT LEAST 1kg even at the end of the day? And they are honest enough to not make excuse and just bake bread that is more than 1kg.
Countless shops do that with their products as well and it works. The law has strictly defined margins and it doesn’t take any drying out into account. The weight a product had a few months ago is completely irrelevant. What is legally binding is the weight at the time the product gets sold. It’s completely up to the seller to sell the advertised weight within legal limits. If it’s really the case that these potatoes dried out, that completely falls into the resonsibility of Coop.
Guys, it’s really disturbing how quickly some of you are willing to give up your rights and make excuses that go a AGAINST your own interests. No wonder democracies worldwide are on the backfoot if you can’t even stand up for yourself when it comes to a bag of potatoes… Embarrassing…