Meat Prices in Switzerland (2026): What the Tests Show

Aldi Prices of September 2024: Examples by Cut

Prices announced by Aldi Suisse in its press release of 30 August 2024. The price per kilo and the change are Rappn's calculation from the announced prices.

The Retailers on Meat: What the Tests Show

The K-Tipp test covers one day in Winterthur; Blick's analysis of 6 September 2025 compares the lowest prices without temporary discounts on a Thursday. Aligro and Otto's were in neither comparison.

The K-Tipp test. The 25 products (chicken, beef, pork and lamb, in various commonly used cuts) were recorded on 1 November 2024 in stores in Winterthur, all at normal prices. On the same basket the gap between Lidl, the lowest total, and Coop, the highest, was CHF 121; Migros cost CHF 114 more than Lidl. Denner stocked only half of the products, at prices in line with the discounters, and has no comparable total. The test came after the price cuts Aldi announced on 30 August 2024.

On Swiss meat, K-Tipp (November 2024) found the lowest prices at Lidl, closely followed by Aldi; Coop was in the middle and Migros had the highest. On organic meat, K-Tipp found Lidl and Aldi level and lowest, with Coop 56 percent higher; for organic beef entrecôte, Lidl and Aldi were nearly 50 percent cheaper than Coop. According to K-Tipp, the budget lines M-Budget and Prix Garantie are often at the level of Aldi and Lidl. Migros says it offers the same prices as the discounters on its low-price products, and Coop says it has cut the prices of its Prix Garantie meat.

The Blick analysis. In an analysis of 6 September 2025, Blick compared the lowest prices without temporary discounts for 17 common kinds of meat in five chains; the reference day was a Thursday. According to this Blick analysis of 2025, Lidl came out best across all fresh-meat prices and Coop took second place, ahead of Aldi; Migros and Denner were at the back, with Denner behind Migros. The first three were within 40 centimes of each other. On classics such as lean pork chop, four of the five retailers had exactly the same price per 100 grams, and the same goes for beef mince. In the same Blick comparison of 2025, organic meat cost 50 to 100 percent more.

The two surveys do not agree: Coop has the highest total in the K-Tipp test of 2024 and comes second in Blick's analysis of 2025. The products, the day and the method differ, and Blick itself warns that fresh-meat prices change very often and may already differ.

Denner. In the K-Tipp test Denner stocked only half of the products; in Blick's analysis of 2025 it is fifth, behind Migros. In the basket of 30 basic foods of RTS "À bon entendeur" (April 2024, not a meat test), Denner's basket was the most expensive at CHF 181.67, against CHF 162.05 for Lidl. RTS puts this down to the absence of first-price minced steaks on the shopping day; Denner replies that it stocks them too and regularly runs promotions on many products.

Aligro and Otto's. The tests say nothing about their meat prices. Aligro has 14 markets in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland (list of markets on aligro.ch, read on 28 October 2026).

It depends on the week and on the product: in Rappn you see the offers, updated daily.
Search for the cut you usually buy, for example chicken breast or beef mince, and compare the offers of the 7 chains (Migros, Coop, Aldi Suisse, Lidl Switzerland, Denner, Aligro and Otto's) by price per kilo, filtered by canton. If you follow a product, you get an alert when it goes on offer. For when the chains start their promotions, see the meat deals in Switzerland guide. Open Rappn.

Three Rules for Paying Less for Meat

Rule 1: Look at the line, not only the store. In Blick's 2025 comparison, the budget chicken breast at Coop and Migros cost CHF 1.50 per 100 g and the organic one CHF 5.60; according to K-Tipp (November 2024), Coop's organic meat cost 56 percent more than Lidl's and Aldi's.

Rule 2: Compare promotions by the kilo, not by the percentage. The tests exclude promotions, but the chains change theirs every week. A big discount on an expensive cut can still cost more than a cheap cut at its normal price: the price per kilo is what counts.

Rule 3: Buy more only if you can store it. If the cut you use is on offer, freeze it straight away. From abroad, do not bring back more than 1 kg per person of a cheap cut, because the excess is charged CHF 17 per kg in duty (up to 10 kg).

Cross-Border: Is German or French Meat Still Worth the Trip?

These are national averages for the whole category, not the price of your basket. Eurostat writes that the prices were collected in spring 2024 and extrapolated to 2025 with detailed consumer price indices, and that price level indices are not intended to rank countries strictly.

Aldi itself linked its September 2024 price cut to shopping tourism: in its press release of 30 August 2024, Aldi Suisse wrote that anyone buying fresh meat at Aldi Suisse no longer has to follow time-limited promotions or make exhausting shopping trips abroad.

The CHF 150 value limit has applied since 1 January 2025; before, it was CHF 300 (FOCBS: reduced from 300 to 150 francs). An example: with 3 kg of meat per person, duty is charged on the 2 kg above the allowance, so 2 × CHF 17 = CHF 34. On a cheap cut the duty alone can exceed the Swiss price: in Blick's analysis of September 2025 the budget chicken breast at Coop and Migros cost CHF 1.50 per 100 g, that is CHF 15 per kilo, less than the CHF 17 per kg of duty. On expensive cuts the duty weighs less, but the price abroad on the day is something you have to compare yourself.

More on shopping abroad: the guides to Germany and France.

Where Does the Meat at Aldi and Lidl Come From?

In part from Switzerland, according to the chains themselves. Aldi Suisse writes on its website that 80% of its standard fresh-meat range comes from Switzerland. Lidl Switzerland writes on its website that its fresh veal is 100% Swiss and about 90% of its fresh beef comes from Switzerland, and in its press release of 15 February 2026 that over 95% of its fresh pork does. So part of the meat comes from abroad: for each cut, check the origin shown in the store.

On producers: Aldi, Coop, Denner, Migros and Lidl told K-Tipp that the prices paid to producers have not changed (K-Tipp via ATS, November 2024). On 21 November 2025 the Swiss Farmers' Union wrote that an irresponsible downward price spiral had set in at retail, and Lidl said, according to Blick, that it does not start price wars in segments such as meat or bread. In its press release of 18 November 2025 the Federal Statistical Office estimated the gross value added of agriculture for 2025 at CHF 5 billion (plus 9.6 percent) and wrote that prices for large cattle and calves rose in 2025 because demand exceeded the supply of animals for slaughter.