Dollars To Doughnuts
It's awesome, seeing the Canadian dollar worth more than a dollar USD. Really, it is. Gives a weird sense of pride, and annoyance, when you see businesses crabbing because they base their interests on the USD and need the CAN to do badly to make money. Not to mention the ones who wail about tourists.
*What* tourists?
What's really annoying though is seeing prices 45% higher than they should be. I don't know why it's bothering me now, why 45 is so much worse than 35. I think it's that we didn't realise our prices were still based on our dollar being worth 60 cents, since our currency hadn't been anywhere near there in years and years. We saw it on books, but publishers were always screwing everybody, and they were nasty and unrepentant about it. So books were crazy, but we thought the rest were fair. Prices kept going up, as prices always do. We knew things were too expensive, sure, but I don't think we knew we were getting this hosed and why.
Stores are refusing to lower their prices, citing buying stock a year in advance. That, of course, would forgive them ten percent, which would still make them all corrupt as muck. Aren't we shocked.
But they keep squawking at the betrayal, how dare people shop across the border, just because the prices are nearly half?
The economists are saying prices are set by what we'll pay for them, so the only way it changes is when we refuse to buy. A neat theory for luxuries, but what about food?
The supermarkets are saying they can't compete with Wal-mart, now that they've gotten in with groceries.
I find it very interesting, how everyone thinks they're being cheated.
Interesting, and expensive.
*What* tourists?
What's really annoying though is seeing prices 45% higher than they should be. I don't know why it's bothering me now, why 45 is so much worse than 35. I think it's that we didn't realise our prices were still based on our dollar being worth 60 cents, since our currency hadn't been anywhere near there in years and years. We saw it on books, but publishers were always screwing everybody, and they were nasty and unrepentant about it. So books were crazy, but we thought the rest were fair. Prices kept going up, as prices always do. We knew things were too expensive, sure, but I don't think we knew we were getting this hosed and why.
Stores are refusing to lower their prices, citing buying stock a year in advance. That, of course, would forgive them ten percent, which would still make them all corrupt as muck. Aren't we shocked.
But they keep squawking at the betrayal, how dare people shop across the border, just because the prices are nearly half?
The economists are saying prices are set by what we'll pay for them, so the only way it changes is when we refuse to buy. A neat theory for luxuries, but what about food?
The supermarkets are saying they can't compete with Wal-mart, now that they've gotten in with groceries.
I find it very interesting, how everyone thinks they're being cheated.
Interesting, and expensive.
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