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US retail... not so smart
On my last trip to the states, I was doing some shopping and out of curiosity I asked the lady checking me out if they took Canadian dollars. I just happened to have a large sum of Canadian cash on me, so I thought I would ask.
She looked at me (and a couple of the other girls too) like I was from another world or something and then she politely said NO they didn't accept that. It struck me as completely wrong. I mean, we as webmasters will take whatever you got. We'll take a credit card, checking account, phone charge... whatever ... just make that transaction. I would be the same if I ran a retail store. Just get the money across the counter and I'll take care of the currency exchange.
Stranger still was the look on her face which was like "Canada? They have a currency?"... duhhh. And by the way, our dollar is worth more than the US dollar right now. She either didn't believe me, didn't know, or didn't care. Probably all three.
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