Migros - Migros Today

Migros Today

To this day, Migros keeps the cooperative society as its form of organization. Nowadays, a large part of the Swiss population are members of the Migros cooperative – around 2 million of Switzerland's total population of 7.2 million, thus making Migros a supermarket chain that is owned by its customers. More than 90 % of the assortment of goods is produced by 90 subsidiaries of Migros.

Reflecting the altruism of its founder, Migros operates a number of evening schools for working adults, featuring classes in cooking, languages and other subjects. It has obligated itself to spend one percent of its annual turnover for financing cultural projects in a broad sense; the sub-organization taking care of this is called Migros Kulturprozent ("cultural percent"). In 2011, an amount of 117 Million Swiss Francs was paid to finance this purpose. An example of the Kulturprozent's activity is its own record label Musiques Suisses often featuring little-known works from Swiss music history.

The supermarkets are categorized in the three size classes of M, MM and MMM.

Migros acquired some notoriety in 1977 when it fired its severest internal critic, Hans A. Pestalozzi.