Switzerland: Technical issue leaves 100 Coop stations without fuel

Drivers were unable to switch on pumps at Coop sites due to faulty new system introduced on Friday.

A technical issue left around 100 Coop stations in Switzerland unable to provide fuel for a large part of last Friday, reports Tagblatt.

Since Friday morning, half of Coop’s sites in Switzerland could not dispense fuel due to the introduction of a new system. Shortly after 5PM, the fuel retailer announced that “refuelling at all Coop filling stations is possible again.”

The system had already caused difficulties during the test phase but the issue still caught the OMC by surprise.

"We are currently having technical problems at various filling stations to activate the fuel pumps. It affects a large part of our filling station network," Sabine Schenker, spokesperson for Coop Mineralöl AG, told St. Galler Tagblatt.