Remmy
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2007
I took my daughter and my mother to Michigan this past Friday. I too agree that the prices on most of the items I purchase are much better over there as well, and the selection is greater.
I had to go as my daughter is very, very, very, picky on jeans. She loved her one pair she was down to which is a size 16 Girls at Wal-Mart. I went to our local Wal-Mart to find out according to the manager that in our area of Ontario and possibly the whole of Ontario that Wal-Mart doesn't carry size 16 Girls only up to a size 14. I was willing to drive to Toronto. We went to Port Huron and found another pair (they were well picked over) for only $6.00!!!
I went grocery shopping on Thursday (locally) so I knew what the prices were and picked up more groceries in Port Huron that were either cheaper or I couldn't find here. For example:
Club Pack size of Brand Name Children's gummy snacks for a much cheaper price that I can find up here and we don't have the club pack size of these around my area
Yoghurts in Key Lime, Boston Cream Pie, Strawberry Shortcake flavors in the club pack size for much cheaper ($4.00) than our groceries stores here that don't carry those flavors.
And for my in-laws who love using the large blocks of Velveeta cheese, I picked up 4 of those. The large size you cannot find up here and pay way too much for the small size we have locally.
What I don't understand is if they obviously make the larger sizes of the gummy snacks or the Velveeta cheese blocks why doesn't our own stores carry them?
It is also equal distance for us to drive to Toronto which is a much larger population and fighting in a lot of traffic compared to driving to Port Huron in Michigan.
I hope that as a country we can find a balance or more and more people might think it is easier to go across the boarder to purchase items. My mother hadn't been over since last year for our girls trip and didn't realize you could make purchases and bring them back the same day. We have always been honest every time we have come back and said the amount and we did purchase clothing or other items. Each time (we usually go monthly) we have been waived through and not had to pay duty.
I would love to buy locally or even drive to some larger cities if it meant they did carry the items for the same price or a bit more, than I could purchase them for in the US.
Until that happens I don't for see us stopping going to the US any time soon.
Remmy
I had to go as my daughter is very, very, very, picky on jeans. She loved her one pair she was down to which is a size 16 Girls at Wal-Mart. I went to our local Wal-Mart to find out according to the manager that in our area of Ontario and possibly the whole of Ontario that Wal-Mart doesn't carry size 16 Girls only up to a size 14. I was willing to drive to Toronto. We went to Port Huron and found another pair (they were well picked over) for only $6.00!!!
I went grocery shopping on Thursday (locally) so I knew what the prices were and picked up more groceries in Port Huron that were either cheaper or I couldn't find here. For example:
Club Pack size of Brand Name Children's gummy snacks for a much cheaper price that I can find up here and we don't have the club pack size of these around my area
Yoghurts in Key Lime, Boston Cream Pie, Strawberry Shortcake flavors in the club pack size for much cheaper ($4.00) than our groceries stores here that don't carry those flavors.
And for my in-laws who love using the large blocks of Velveeta cheese, I picked up 4 of those. The large size you cannot find up here and pay way too much for the small size we have locally.
What I don't understand is if they obviously make the larger sizes of the gummy snacks or the Velveeta cheese blocks why doesn't our own stores carry them?
It is also equal distance for us to drive to Toronto which is a much larger population and fighting in a lot of traffic compared to driving to Port Huron in Michigan.
I hope that as a country we can find a balance or more and more people might think it is easier to go across the boarder to purchase items. My mother hadn't been over since last year for our girls trip and didn't realize you could make purchases and bring them back the same day. We have always been honest every time we have come back and said the amount and we did purchase clothing or other items. Each time (we usually go monthly) we have been waived through and not had to pay duty.
I would love to buy locally or even drive to some larger cities if it meant they did carry the items for the same price or a bit more, than I could purchase them for in the US.
Until that happens I don't for see us stopping going to the US any time soon.
Remmy