Flammable
Well-known member
Re: MAC needs to adjust Canadian prices to reflect the Currency!
It's March '08 now and the CAD is still roughly equivalent to the USD (CAD is worth a couple cents more as of today), and we really haven't seen any price adjustments have we?
I won't complain about MAC because the the price difference is *relatively* minimal but I was shopping at Banana Republic a couple months ago and realized I was paying $20 more for a sweater here than my counterparts in the US. Being the vocal consumer that I am, I made a point to email their customer service and the lovely people over at BR/GAP emailed me back talking about their production/shipping/customs costs and what not but of course, this does not justify the huge price difference that are obvious at BR & Gap stores just to name a few US-based stores with shops set up across Canada.
I predict that the currency exchange will remain as it is for a while. I doubt the USD will go up anytime soon, maybe in November, around election season in the US, but not before that. C'mon, they are, after all, in an economic recession, no matter how much Bush denies it.
And while the exchange rates are unjust for us Canadian consumers, I don't believe retailers will do much to equalize the scale. I remember the Finance Minister was urging retailers to make price adjustments around Christmas last year so as not to lose their business to across the border cities like Buffalo, but few paid heed and we all saw how that went. Gazillions of Canadians flooding the Buffalo malls and boosting the Buffalo economy by giving them their holiday business.
Kudos to those businesses who did adjust their prices. Too bad they were the minority.
It's March '08 now and the CAD is still roughly equivalent to the USD (CAD is worth a couple cents more as of today), and we really haven't seen any price adjustments have we?
I won't complain about MAC because the the price difference is *relatively* minimal but I was shopping at Banana Republic a couple months ago and realized I was paying $20 more for a sweater here than my counterparts in the US. Being the vocal consumer that I am, I made a point to email their customer service and the lovely people over at BR/GAP emailed me back talking about their production/shipping/customs costs and what not but of course, this does not justify the huge price difference that are obvious at BR & Gap stores just to name a few US-based stores with shops set up across Canada.
I predict that the currency exchange will remain as it is for a while. I doubt the USD will go up anytime soon, maybe in November, around election season in the US, but not before that. C'mon, they are, after all, in an economic recession, no matter how much Bush denies it.
And while the exchange rates are unjust for us Canadian consumers, I don't believe retailers will do much to equalize the scale. I remember the Finance Minister was urging retailers to make price adjustments around Christmas last year so as not to lose their business to across the border cities like Buffalo, but few paid heed and we all saw how that went. Gazillions of Canadians flooding the Buffalo malls and boosting the Buffalo economy by giving them their holiday business.
Kudos to those businesses who did adjust their prices. Too bad they were the minority.
