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Re:The Canadian Dollar - 2007/10/30 13:45 Kevin R wrote:


Unrelated to coffee purchases, but interesting: I was recently told by a friend of an interview with the CEO of LEGO where the price disparity issue came up. When asked why LEGO was so much more expensive in Canada than the U.S., the CEO suggested that it was well-known in retail circles that Canadians were more tolerant of higher prices...

Another example of us being too nice, perhaps?


I hear you Kevin. There was a time that I thought we were all owed better prices on consumables - and I used to consider myself something of a lefty. Now, as I get older, I am not so sure where I stand on the issue of market forces. I think at the end of the day it all comes down to what the average person is willing to pay for a product. There is a larger social cost to always demanding the best possible price. Look at The Gap for instance - the media has just discovered that there are factories in India populated by 9 year olds making the Gap clothing that we demand for cheap. Gee. I guess I still am a lefty.
The West has this lust for cheap everything. And from this we have a Walmart generation - where one giant retailer dictates to a community and a manufacturing sector its conditions of trade.
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How is the current economic crisis effecting your coffee habits?
 
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