VANCOUVER — Cross\u002Dborder shopping buses filled with Chinese and Korean Canadian consumers were once ubiquitous outside Washington state malls, but they have…
Edward Xie, manager at First Express Travel in Richmond, B.C., said his company will still operate a few shopping tours this year, but longer itineraries such as three-day trips to Portland, Ore., have been removed entirely due to a lack of demand.
According to data from Destination British Columbia, there were 4,729 visitors to B.C. from China last November, down from 12,370 in November 2019. Vancouver resident Jodi Jiang said her family used to go to Washington state to shop almost monthly, but a combination of pandemic border closures and cost pressures altered her shopping habits.
But another is the fact that many of the brands they seek are now available in Canadian outlet malls.“If you look at the Richmond outlet, I actually think the brands offered are better than the Seattle outlet,” she said, referring to the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet mall near Vancouver’s airport. A rate to 65 U.S. cents per Canadian dollar would significantly cut Canadian spending in Bellingham, but the current rate of around 75 U.S. cents was not swaying consumers too much, he said.
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