Shopping tales
So where do you do most of your holiday shopping?
Today is Cyber-Monday, the kick-off day to the online shopping season. Some people are afraid of shopping online but I’ve been doing it regularly for years without a problem.
Since our dollar reached parity and passed the U.S. buck in late September and October, Canadians have been flooding to the U.S. and shopping like mad. It’s your money, do with it what you like, but unless there’s some sort of eye-popping deal that we can’t possibly get here, I don’t understand the attraction. I do understand popping over to the States for an outing, but not with an actual goal of stocking up on stuff.
Please don’t take this to be a partison agreement - you don’t know and never will know my political leanings!! But I agree with Premier McGuinty who said last week that once you factor in the time and gas spent to get over the border and shop around, you could have purchased what you wanted and been back home, over here. Plus, shopping at home supports your neighbours. At this time of year, it’s something I think about.
Do you?