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Old Sep 26, 2011 | 2:02 am
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Originally Posted by SwissCircle
In short, merchants are just to greedy here and not customer service oriented.
Margins in supermarket business are pretty small. This has nothing to do with customer service orientation. Increase all prices by 2 percent and CC will be accepted. Germany has one of the most competitive supermarket markets.

Funny that a comment like this comes from Switzerland. I wonder why thousands of Swiss come to Konstanz for their weekend shopping - prices in the supermarkets are one of the reasons.
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