avec – Best food on the go

The avec convenience stores add to the offering at highly frequented locations such as train and service stations. With its extensive range, the convenience format offers fresh products for immediate consumption, from early until late or also round-the-clock in some places, 365 days a year. The offering is adjusted to customers’ needs depending on the time of day. Valora operates avec express at locations with smaller sales areas.

avec traces its origins to a joint venture between Migros, SBB, and Valora in 2000. In 2005, Valora took over a portion of the stores. Since then, the brand and store concept have continued to evolve and set benchmarks in the market, even by international standards. This is reflected, among other things, in the awards won by the avec stores on Freiestrasse in Zurich as Europe’s Best Convenience Store in 2025, as well as the store in Horgen, which took third place in the Best Convenience Store of the World 2025 competition.

As a result of a long-standing partnership with our landlords, avec—with around 350 stores—is the convenience format with the largest network of retail locations in Switzerland.

In Germany, through its partnership with Deutsche Bahn, avec will grow to approximately 100 stores by the end of 2026.