B.C.-U.S. border town store offers low exchange rate to lure shoppers this Easter – BC [Video]

A small U.S. community is trying to lure Canadians back across the border with a special Easter long weekend deal.

The Point Roberts International Marketplace says this weekend it is offering a special exchange rate for Canadian cash at $0.80, meaning US$1 is CAD $1.25 this weekend and cash only.

Ali Hayton, the owner of the marketplace, told Global News that the exchange rate has been tough for Canadians and Americans the past number of years.

“So with everything else going on, we thought, what can we do to make it easier for our Canadian neighbours and friends that haven’t been able to come down for a while? And we thought we can’t do par — we’d love to, but we’d actually be selling things below what we pay for them and that’s not a real good business strategy long term.

“So we thought we’d kind of meet in the middle a little …