Grocery Delivery Apps in Switzerland after Smood's Shutdown: Just Eat and Uber Eats Compared (2026)

Switzerland's on-demand grocery delivery landscape was rewritten twice within a week in 2026. On 30 April 2026 Smood ceased all operations, taking with it the country's largest independent on-demand grocery network. Four days later, on 4 May 2026, Just Eat began delivering a Migros assortment of more than 10'000 articles at regular store prices, in Geneva, Valais and Ticino only. The familiar "Smood vs Uber Eats" comparison no longer describes anything that exists. Here is the honest map as of August 2026: what each app actually delivers, what it actually costs, where on-demand grocery delivery is simply no longer available, and when the slower chain delivery services are the answer.

Sources checked regularly. Smood shutdown reporting: 20 Minuten and Tages-Anzeiger, February to April 2026 (consultation procedure January to February 2026, 427 employees affected, social plan agreed with Syndicom). Just Eat Takeaway.com Switzerland press releases, April and May 2026. Migros press communications via 20min.ch, swissinfo.ch, bluewin.ch (May 2026); cmm360.ch reporting on Just Eat / Migros (May 2026). Smood shutdown and Just Eat coverage verified August 2026; chain-service delivery fees last verified May 2026.

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First: two different categories of "delivery"

The Swiss market has two structurally different grocery-delivery models, and conflating them is the single biggest source of confusion. The first is chain-owned grocery e-commerce: Migros Online (the service that traded as LeShop until November 2020), coop.ch (formerly Coop@home); ALDI now, the delivery service of Aldi Suisse, closed in 2026 (20 Minuten and Blick, 23 August 2026). These are run by the retailers themselves, ship from central warehouses or local stores, deliver in scheduled windows, and have minimum orders of CHF 99 (Migros Online) and CHF 99.90 (coop.ch), with delivery fees of CHF 7.90 or CHF 4.90 and free delivery from CHF 200. mymigros.ch is no longer a separate service: it now redirects to migros.ch.

The second category is third-party on-demand apps: today that means Just Eat and Uber Eats. These are independent platforms that contract with retailers or restaurants to provide 30-to-60-minute delivery. Their economics are different (driver pay, smaller baskets, faster windows) and so is the user experience. The chain services are for your weekly shop; the on-demand apps are for when you need something now. Until 30 April 2026 Smood was the third and by far the largest of them, and its shutdown is the reason this category now looks so thin outside three cantons.

This article focuses on the second category. For deeper coverage of Migros Online and coop.ch, and of the closure of ALDI now, see our online grocery shopping in Switzerland guide.

Smood: shut down on 30 April 2026

Smood no longer exists. The Geneva company, founded in 2012 by Marc Aeschlimann and owned in its final years by Migros Genève, ceased all operations on 30 April 2026. A consultation procedure ran from January to February 2026, 427 employees were affected, and a social plan was agreed with the Syndicom union (reporting: 20 Minuten and Tages-Anzeiger, February to April 2026).

For most of its life Smood was the largest independent on-demand delivery network in the country. It operated in Switzerland's 25 largest cities, employed its couriers directly under a Collective Labour Agreement under Swiss law rather than on gig contracts, and from 2019 delivered Migros groceries at in-store prices: first Migros Genève, then Vaud, then Valais, then Zurich in 2021. It also delivered from restaurants, florists, pharmacies and wine shops. All of it stopped on 30 April 2026.

Two practical consequences. If you still have the app on your phone, it no longer takes orders. And any guide, review or comparison that still quotes Smood delivery fees, catalogue sizes or city coverage is describing a service that ended in April 2026, however recently it appears to have been updated.

What replaced Smood depends entirely on where you live, and across most of the country the honest answer is that nothing did. The on-demand grocery landscape in Switzerland is now Just Eat in three cantons, plus the limited partner-kiosk assortment on Uber Eats. Everywhere else, delivered groceries mean the chain services and their scheduled next-day windows.

Uber Eats Grocery: smaller than you think

In September 2025, Uber announced a US-wide partnership with Aldi covering 2'500 stores. The Swiss equivalent does not exist. Uber Eats Switzerland operates in major cities (Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, Basel, Bern, others) but its grocery section is heavily restaurant-and-kiosk-focused: small convenience stores, dark-store-style operators, and partner kiosks. There is no Migros, no Coop, no Aldi Suisse, and no Lidl Schweiz integration of meaningful scale, and the partner kiosks set their own prices on the platform. If you live in Zurich and need Migros groceries delivered in 45 minutes, Uber Eats is the wrong app, and since Smood's shutdown there is no right one: the only route to a Migros basket in Zurich is Migros Online's next-day delivery.

What Uber Eats does well in Switzerland is restaurants, with Uber One subscription (CHF 14.90 per month or CHF 149 per year) removing delivery fees on eligible orders. For genuine grocery shopping, the platform's scope is limited enough that we cannot honestly recommend it as a primary tool for that purpose in 2026. This may change: Uber Eats is expanding grocery in other European markets, and a Swiss chain partnership is plausible within 12 to 24 months, all the more so now that Smood has left the market. As of August 2026 it has not happened.

Just Eat: the new entrant in grocery (May 4, 2026)

Just Eat Switzerland (formerly Eat.ch, founded 2007 and now part of Just Eat Takeaway.com, acquired by Prosus in 2025) is the established restaurant-delivery player in the country, with 7'000 partner businesses and 1.5 million active customers. The CH managing director is Lukas Streich and the Swiss HQ is in Zurich.

On May 4, 2026, Just Eat launched its Migros grocery partnership. The numbers: 10'000+ Migros products available via the Just Eat app, picked by Migros employees inside the supermarkets, delivered by Just Eat couriers in under 60 minutes via car, e-bike or bike, within a 12-kilometre radius. Products sell at the regular Migros store prices and any active Migros in-store discounts apply through the app. Cumulus scanning works.

The rollout covers three Migros cooperatives: Migros Genève, Migros Valais and Migros Tessin. Migros Genève's managing director Grégory Décaillet framed the partnership as a continuation of Migros' delivery ambition after several earlier in-house projects (Stash, the older Amigos peer-shopping experiment) were wound down. With Smood closing its doors at the end of the same month, the structural question is sharper than it looked in May: whether Just Eat's logistics density is enough to make the unit economics work where previous attempts did not.

For users in Geneva, Valais or Ticino, the Just Eat-Migros offering is the strongest on-demand grocery service in those regions, and since 30 April 2026 effectively the only one. Outside those three cantons, Just Eat does not offer grocery delivery at meaningful scale. That leaves no on-demand Migros delivery at all in Zurich, Bern, Basel, Lausanne or the rest of the country: there, the route to a Migros basket is the chain's own next-day service, Migros Online.

The cost reality (August 2026)

The honest summary: for Migros groceries via Just Eat in Geneva, Valais or Ticino, you pay the same prices as on the shelf, plus a delivery fee. The "15 to 40% markup" framing common in older articles is not accurate for the official Migros catalogue on Just Eat, because the products are sold at regular store prices and in-store discounts carry over. The convenience cost is the delivery fee and any tip, not a product markup. Outside those three cantons there is no on-demand option left to price at all, so the relevant comparison is between the chain services' own fees.

Where the markup framing still applies: Uber Eats grocery partners (smaller kiosks and dark stores), and any non-chain merchant. Always check the per-product price against the Rappn price comparison before assuming the app price matches the shelf. For a deeper look at delivery economics across the chain services see save money on groceries in Switzerland.

City availability (August 2026)

Zurich: no on-demand grocery delivery from a major chain. Smood, which delivered Migros here from 2021, stopped on 30 April 2026 and Just Eat's Migros partnership does not cover the canton. Uber Eats (restaurants + limited grocery via partner kiosks), Just Eat (restaurants). ALDI now closed in 2026, in the Zurich region reportedly at the end of September (20 Minuten and Blick, 23 August 2026); Migros Online and coop.ch deliver next-day.

Geneva: Just Eat (Migros Genève, since 4 May 2026), Uber Eats (restaurants + limited grocery).

Lausanne: Just Eat (restaurants only, Vaud is not part of the Migros rollout), Uber Eats (restaurants + limited grocery). No on-demand grocery since April 2026.

Basel: Uber Eats (restaurants), Just Eat (restaurants). No on-demand grocery.

Bern: Migros Online and coop.ch for planned deliveries, Uber Eats for restaurants. No third-party on-demand grocery, and no separate myMigros service any more: mymigros.ch redirects to migros.ch.

Lugano / Ticino: Just Eat (Migros Tessin, since 4 May 2026), Uber Eats (limited).

Sion / Valais: Just Eat (Migros Valais, since 4 May 2026).

When on-demand is genuinely worth it

These use cases only apply where an on-demand grocery service still exists, which as of August 2026 means Geneva, Valais and Ticino. Emergency restocks (you're cooking dinner, you're out of one ingredient, a sub-60-minute delivery beats a 20-minute round trip to the store). Late-evening shopping (most Swiss supermarkets close at 19:00 or 20:00; on-demand windows extend later). Small urgent baskets (the chain services' CHF 99 minimums are punishing for a CHF 30 shop). Mobility constraints (illness, no car, heavy items). Time-poor weeks (working parents, end of semester, post-travel).

Everywhere else the same needs now have to be planned a day ahead through Migros Online or coop.ch, or covered by coop.ch's same-day delivery in the Zurich area. That is the practical cost of the April 2026 shutdown for households outside the three Just Eat cantons.

When on-demand is not worth it: weekly shops over CHF 100, anything you can plan a day ahead, items you know cost less at Aldi or Lidl (not currently delivered by any third-party app in Switzerland), bulk household items. For chain-app context see Migros App vs Coop App comparison.