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Originally Posted by ken0042
Yes, but if a store chain in the US has 8 times the customers, they do have increased buying power. The fact that the states that border our prairie provinces are small is just a cost of business for those big chains.
Part of it is also that the purchase orders here would have been made when the US dollar was a lot higher. The fact that they bought that fridge for $3000 then and could buy it for $2700 now doesn't mean they can turn around and re-sell it for less now.
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And those are valid arguments, but the whole US>Canada answer is a lazy answer.
But I'm pretty sure I saw a Best Buy or two around town; I would imagine that they should get similar wholesale costs. If they bought the stock when the dollar was depressed then that is indeed a valid reason, but I'm not sure that would account for such a massive discrepancy.
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