Delivery service will cut over 400 jobs in Switzerland;; Swiss canton naturalises a deceased person; and more news in ourThursday roundup.
Delivery service to cut over 400 jobs in Switzerland
Smood, a meal and grocery delivery service operated by Migros Geneva, will cease its operations on April 30th, 2026, the company announced on Wednesday.
More than 400 employees in 25 Swiss cities will lose their jobs.
Smood said it is forced to close and lay off staff because it operates “in a particularly competitive market…the financial results of recent months have fallen short of targets, with no prospect of a return to profitability.”
READ MORE: All the job cuts announced in Switzerland for 2026
Posthumously Swiss: Thurgau grants citizenship to a dead person
At its session on Wednesday, the Thurgau parliament collectively naturalised 140 applicants – including one who is no longer alive.
The 77-year-old candidate, whose name or nationality had not been released, died on January 9th.
How could such a slip-up happen?
According to media reports, “it remains unclear why the deceased candidate was not removed from the naturalisation list” – even though his passing was officially announced.
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Coop supplies food to stranded tourists by helicopter
Some resorts in the Swiss Alps – like Saas-Fe and Saas-Grund in Valais – have experienced shortages of fruit, vegetables and meat because access roads have been impassable since the weekend due to heavy snowfall.
Therefore, regular food trucks could not make their regular deliveries.
Since Wednesday, however, shelves in Coop stores in these resorts are once again fully stocked – that’s because because the retailer is airlifting the food there by helicopter.
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Better than expected: Switzerland is wealthy again
Even though it had projected a deficit of 800 million francs, the Swiss government posted a surplus of 300 million francs for 2025, the Federal Council announced on Wednesday.
This windfall is due to additional revenue that the canton of Geneva contributed to federal coffers.
Despite the surplus, however. “the [financial] situation remains tense,” the Federal Council said, adding that “the austerity plan for the years 2027-2029 therefore remains in effect. Without these measures, deficits of 2 to 4 billion francs are expected as early as 2027”
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