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Ross Store in Texas Accepts Pesos
KWTX news ^ | July 28, 2010 | Megan Fleetwood

Posted on 07/28/2010 7:51:56 PM PDT by NorwegianViking

The Waco, Texas Ross Dress store has been accepting pesos in payment for merchandise.

WACO (July 28, 2010)--The Waco Ross Dress for Less Store has been accepting pesos in payment for clothes, accessories, decorations and more and customers' reactions are mixed.

Some said Wednesday they’re concerned the dollar could be devalued if the practice spreads to other businesses.

Customer Amy Silva told News 10, "I think we need to stand up and say, 'Stop this.' This is America, and we have an American dollar."

Sharen Underwood says she feels if the practice catches on, the negative effects could be far reaching.

“That'd be rough, she said.

But other customers called the decision to accept Mexican currency a positive move.

(Excerpt) Read more at kwtx.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: peso; rossdressstore
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To: La Lydia

When you buy their products because they are the best value, you’re doing both countries a favour. They get more money in their economy, which in turn reduces the need to send people abroad to bring in cash.


41 posted on 07/29/2010 6:46:10 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
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To: NorwegianViking

Try looking around the country and you’ll find places accepting different currencies or valuables for payment. Check out PayPal and see how many different currencies you can pay with. Until it becomes illegal a business will determine the best methods of making it easiest for their customers to do business with them.


42 posted on 07/29/2010 6:58:34 AM PDT by deport
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To: Squawk 8888

I really don’t buy Mexican mangos to do the Mexicans a favor and help their economy, but of course that is the result.


43 posted on 07/29/2010 7:00:31 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Vendome

Vendome said: You don’t know the rate and what’s fair = pay full price.

That reminds me...

Q: Why did G-d invent goyim?

A: SOMEbody has to buy retail.

Peet (my memory works weird)


44 posted on 07/29/2010 7:14:26 AM PDT by Peet (<- A.K.A. the Foundling)
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To: Larry Lucido
Wish they would take potato chips.......

I'd shop there more often......

45 posted on 07/29/2010 7:17:35 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: NorwegianViking

So let’s see

Spanish Language - check
Mexican Peso - check
Mexican Demogrpahics - check
Mexican culture - check

Yep - the invasion and takeover is moving right along.


46 posted on 07/29/2010 7:18:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Peet

LOL

Old Joke but, still funny.


47 posted on 07/29/2010 8:08:49 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Squawk 8888
there are stores in Buffalo that accept (gasp) Canadian dollars

Yeah, remember when "Canadian dollars accepted at par" was a big advertising tool? Of course, now that they're actually at par, it's lost its luster.

48 posted on 07/29/2010 8:25:30 AM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: txhurl; basil; wolfcreek; lormand

Pesos ping. The comments at the web site are mostly against this practice.


49 posted on 07/29/2010 8:47:30 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: Vendome
Old Joke but, still funny

Yes, VERY old. Look up the name Gershon Legman. I read his books back in the 1970s and learned a lot from them. The stuff he collected in NYC in the 1930s to 1940s is a howl.
50 posted on 07/29/2010 9:06:26 AM PDT by Peet (<- A.K.A. the Foundling)
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To: Peet

Shalom!


51 posted on 07/29/2010 9:13:42 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Been to the Texas panhandle recently?

Seemed like every second or third shop window is in Spanish.

Guess we’re powerless to stop this third world takeover.


52 posted on 07/29/2010 1:12:12 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

No, I haven’t been up north of Round Rock lately. I’ve been through the 71 & 290 corridors to Houston for the most part.


53 posted on 07/29/2010 1:33:09 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: wolfcreek

I got this in an email from a friend in Waco earlier.


UPDATE: Waco Ross Store Abruptly Stops Accepting Pesos The Waco Ross Dress for Less store was no longer accepting Mexican currency Thursday, but no one was saying why the store ended the practice WACO (July 29, 2010)—After accepting Mexican currency in payment for several years, the Waco Ross Dress for Less store abruptly ended the practice Thursday and while employees here confirmed Wednesday that pesos were accepted, a Ross corporate spokesperson denied Thursday that the store ever accepted Mexican money.

The store does accept foreign debit and credit cards and the spokesperson said employees who said the store accepted pesos were referring to those when they responded to the question of whether Mexican currency was accepted.

When asked during a phone call Thursday if the store accepted pesos, an employee said “No” and hung up.

Employees of the Waco store said Wednesday, however, they had accepted Mexican currency for several years, but the spokesperson said corporate officials had no knowledge of that.

Some Ross stores closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are authorized to accept Mexican currency in payment and stores in other markets in the U.S. accept Canadian and Japanese currency in payment, the spokesperson said.


54 posted on 07/29/2010 2:52:37 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: Peet
Q: Why did G-d invent goyim?

A: SOMEbody has to buy retail.

LOL I resemble that remark!

55 posted on 07/29/2010 5:50:58 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: McLynnan

Ping!


56 posted on 07/29/2010 5:54:05 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: Altura Ct.
Spanish Language - check
Mexican Peso - check
Mexican Demogrpahics - check
Mexican culture - check

Yep - the invasion and takeover is moving right along.

The funny thing is, when I go to the little fishing town I visit in Baja, they speak English, they take dollars, the town is probably half gringo, and I can get all the American culture I want, from satellite TV to newspapers to radio.

57 posted on 07/29/2010 5:57:47 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: LA Woman3; Arrowhead1952

Thanks for the ping. This store has courted Spanish speaking Hispanic shoppers from the day they opened their doors. I refuse to go in there because I feel like a stranger in a strange land. You don’t hear English, there are hordes of little Mexican children running around totally unattended, the illegal alien customers are rude, and there is a garage sale atmosphere. The shopping center where it is located is wonderful, but IMO Ross has made a conscious decision to alienate legal citizens. Marshall’s a few doors away is where I go.


58 posted on 07/29/2010 6:11:58 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: McLynnan

I agree!! It is a completely different atmosphere than Marshall’s. Ross is on the trashy side...


59 posted on 07/29/2010 6:15:32 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

What little town would that be?


60 posted on 07/29/2010 6:15:41 PM PDT by dragnet2
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