This may come as a shock to you, but there are stores in Buffalo that accept (gasp) Canadian dollars!
Private store. They can accept poker chips if they want to.
No one is forcing anyone to shop there. If we do not like it... then we can shop someplace else.
Looking for my local HEB (Texas) to begin accepting pesos.
Why not?
All the stuff they sell is labeled in Spanish.
There isno reason for a private business not to accept whatever currency it can handle profitably.
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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.
So some people are paying in foreign currency. Big deal!
But a $25 dollar dress costs 317 pesos.
>>> 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.
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.
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!
I really think that this is NOT breaking news.....
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
Pesos ping. The comments at the web site are mostly against this practice.
Ping!