{"id":650261,"date":"2025-02-05T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=650261"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:53:21","slug":"cross-border-shopping-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=650261","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Border Shopping experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the unfavourable USD-CAD exchange rate I look upon a trip across the border as an outing. Entertainment even.<br \/>\nLoad up on Raw Milk and other food items one can not obtain in BC.  Cost not a factor.  Fill up the gas tank and fuck you to The Turd&#8217;s Carbon Tax.<\/p>\n<p>Arrived at the US Border at the usual time.  Crickets.<br \/>\nTrader Joe&#8217;s parking lot was devoid of BC license plates.  Parking was plentiful.  First time ever.<br \/>\nBellingham Co-op was the same.  Was told Costco is the same.  Likely 20% of their retail was Canadians at one time.   Retail is overbuilt in this Border city.<\/p>\n<p>GMG asked if business was down.  &#8220;Yes, due to the evil Orange Hitler&#8221;.  Well the clerk didn&#8217;t actually use those words but it was quite apparent coming from a Left Coast Stronghold. I was cautioned by GMG in advance not to trigger a meltdown for the poor lady. <\/p>\n<p>Crossed back into Canuckistan as usual with no fuss.  GMG has a two minute spiel of items we did not buy.  That includes guns, ammo, cannabis, other drugs, knives, cleavers, no citrus, meat, other contraband but we just have $XXXX of approved groceries, (do you want to see them).  The bored Border agent was glad to wave her through.  &#8220;Get the Fuck out of here&#8221;, as GMG was only halfway through her list.  <\/p>\n<p>Stopped by my dealer to pick up my PM order that I ordered when the prices had dropped.  They had a busy week.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: US border towns are experiencing a huge drop in Canadians day-tripping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the unfavourable USD-CAD exchange rate I look upon a trip across the border as an outing. Entertainment even. Load up on Raw Milk and other food items one can not obtain in BC. Cost not a factor. Fill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=650261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650266,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650261\/revisions\/650266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}