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Which supermarket is cheapest in Switzerland?

For everyday basics, it barely matters. We priced the same eleven staples at Migros, Coop and Lidl, taking each shop's cheapest product, and the three baskets end up within about 50 centimes of each other.

Prices read from the shops' online ranges on 14 November 2026.

The short answer

  • The basket costs CHF 23.59 at Migros, CHF 23.66 at Coop and CHF 24.13 at Lidl. The gap between cheapest and dearest is CHF 0.54.
  • Migros (M-Budget) and Coop (Prix Garantie) price their budget lines to match the discounters almost to the centime: milk, eggs, pasta, yogurt and mozzarella are within one centime of each other in all three.
  • Nearly all of Lidl's gap is potatoes: it sells a 1.5 kg bag, Migros a 5 kg sack. Where pack sizes are similar, Lidl is level with the other two, give or take two centimes.
  • So the shop matters less than the shelf. The saving is in picking the budget line, wherever you already shop.

The basket, per shop

Eleven products, each scaled to the same quantity.

Migros
CHF 23.59
Coop
CHF 23.66
Lidl
CHF 24.13

What is in the basket

Each shop's cheapest product per kilo, litre or piece, organic lines left out. The first figure is what the basket quantity costs; behind it is the pack you actually buy.

How to read this

  • The basket price assumes you buy the cheapest pack, which is often the big one: 5 kg of potatoes or 500 g of butter at Migros. Buy smaller packs and the order can change.
  • Lidl's bananas were on offer at CHF 0.99 a kilo that day. We used the regular CHF 1.19; with the offer Lidl's basket is 20 centimes lower.
  • Aldi is shown where we have its price, without a total: we hold six of the eleven products, and no fruit or vegetables.

What this does not show

  • These are online prices, not the shelf label in your branch, and one day's reading.
  • Eleven basics are not a weekly shop. Branded goods, meat cuts, cheese and household products differ far more between shops than budget staples do.
  • Rice and bread are left out because our data is missing Migros' cheapest ones. Denner and Volg are left out because we hold too few of these products for them.

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