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Texas is becoming Mexico too.
1 posted on 07/28/2010 7:51:59 PM PDT by NorwegianViking
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This may come as a shock to you, but there are stores in Buffalo that accept (gasp) Canadian dollars!


2 posted on 07/28/2010 7:53:34 PM 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

Private store. They can accept poker chips if they want to.


3 posted on 07/28/2010 7:53:38 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (A woman is like an artichoke; you have to do a bit of work to get to her heart ~Insp. Clouseau)
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To: NorwegianViking
This is a private store. They have the right to accept whatever form of payment they wish.

No one is forcing anyone to shop there. If we do not like it... then we can shop someplace else.

5 posted on 07/28/2010 7:58:07 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: NorwegianViking

Looking for my local HEB (Texas) to begin accepting pesos.

Why not?

All the stuff they sell is labeled in Spanish.


6 posted on 07/28/2010 8:00:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: NorwegianViking

There isno reason for a private business not to accept whatever currency it can handle profitably.


7 posted on 07/28/2010 8:03:10 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: NorwegianViking

Bookmark


11 posted on 07/28/2010 8:09:44 PM PDT by dragnet2
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From the article:

Some locally owned stores in the area also accept dollars and pesos, and the Pizza Patron chain began accepting Mexican currency more than three years ago.


13 posted on 07/28/2010 8:11:50 PM PDT by dragnet2
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So some people are paying in foreign currency. Big deal!


14 posted on 07/28/2010 8:13:35 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Viva los SB 1070)
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To: NorwegianViking

But a $25 dollar dress costs 317 pesos.


15 posted on 07/28/2010 8:13:40 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: NorwegianViking
They are a private store and have every right to except what ever currency they wish and I have ever right to no longer shop there.
16 posted on 07/28/2010 8:14:28 PM PDT by svcw (Real faith is always increased by opposition, false confidence is damaged & discouraged by it)
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To: NorwegianViking; Squawk 8888

>>> This may come as a shock to you, but there are stores in Buffalo that accept (gasp) Canadian dollars!

And likewise when I crossed into Canada at Niagara Falls, every establishment I stepped into accepted US currency. I appreciated the convenience. Smart business to accommodate near a border.

Unclench.


17 posted on 07/28/2010 8:15:18 PM PDT by tlb
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A couple of years ago I went into our local WestTx. Ross looking for something. I couldn't find it, but I found 3 women working together, I asked them, they told me they didn't speak English and one had to go find a manager to come over to help me. I didn't go back until recently, to see if things had improved. They have some, but the check-out girl (Mexican) was giving the customers tips on how to go about getting freebies here in town, who to talk to, who to avoid, etc.

Mervyns used to be a decent store, until they hired Mexican managers who hired all Mexican clerks who catered to and waited on first all the Mexican customers. You couldn't walk down any aisle without walking on merchandise dropped in the floor. I was in one day and found three Mexican women sitting on the floor of one aisle with their children eating a lunch they'd brought in from McDonalds. I gave up on shopping there and it wasn't many months later that the store closed down. Ross isn't much better now and I've wondered how long before they close too.

20 posted on 07/28/2010 8:20:48 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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Me, I wouldn’t take pesos, simply because I wouldn’t want to go through the hassle of dealing with more than one currency. Not to mention determining if its genuine or counterfeit.

Beaver pelts, now, that’s another story!


24 posted on 07/28/2010 8:31:01 PM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! SERPENTINE!)
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I really think that this is NOT breaking news.....


33 posted on 07/29/2010 12:08:50 AM PDT by matthew fuller (2012: Bachman, Bolton, Brewer, Liz Cheney, Coburn, DeMint, Inhofe, Jindal, Palin and Pence.)
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I’ve been to Northern Maine where Loonies are accepted.
I’ve been to Manhattan, NY where British Pounds and Euros are accepted.
I’ve been to Disney World area tourist shops/restaurants of Orlando that accept Pounds, Euros, and Brazilian Reals.

Currency does NOT define a nation. IN the next few years as the bastards in DC and the NYFed hyperinflate and devaluate the US Dollar, and by the way, that will devalue the Canadian Dollar and Mexican Peso also. Also the Bahamas, Bermudans, Panamanians, and Belizeans while we’re at it.


35 posted on 07/29/2010 1:14:40 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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When I sold computers in Spokane, we did great business with our Canadian neighbors in their currency. They were excited to drive six hours to our shop and get deals that weren’t available to them at home.

This “news story” is populist garbage.

When we take their currencies, we’re “stealing” =their= country’s business. Mwa-ha-haaa!

Good thing, too. With our present set of “best and brightest” in D.C. I can see US dollars being less attractive for US business than relatively “hard” currencies from overseas. Like, maybe, the yuan and the baht. ;)

Start stocking up on those currencies. Remember what FDR did to gold when he’d sunk the dollar—it’s no protection. :)


36 posted on 07/29/2010 2:14:37 AM PDT by saundby
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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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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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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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Ping!


56 posted on 07/29/2010 5:54:05 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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