I was just going to say - the Calgary store is beautiful - that's not the issue. It's big, beautiful and gorgeously merchandised. But unless you 're buying at the designer and bridge level, the Nordstrom in house brands and the Vince Camuto, Nic and Zoe , Halogen etc lines are just a section of blah looking stuff. That Pleieone label (i'm not spelling it correctly) - it's 50 of one style of blouse on a rack. Literally 50 of them. Gee, that makes you want to buy one. And mall stores across Canada sell EXACTLY the same faux wrap blouses . It's just not that different. For labels like Vince, Burberry, Ted Baker, Donna Karan etc etc - it's great, but otherwise.....

Suz........No, the Canadian page has a higher US price to begin with and THEN when your credit card is charged it's converted to Canadian and the price goes even higher. Sad but true.

Yes, Club Monaco has always had the same prices for both Canada and the US. I've noticed quite recently that that has changed.

Lisa......That's exactly my point about about Nordstom. If I could afford to buy a bunch of designer stuff the store would be wonderful. But otherwise, it's a just another store and I can get the same stuff elsewhere.

SkiDiva......Thanks for posting that letter from J Crew. I'm happy to hear that they will still offer flat rate shipping through Borderfree.

"Just like now, you will not be charged any duties. That cost is absorbed by J.Crew, and it will not be charged on your order. "
See, JC admits here that they "absorb" the cost of duty. They just don't state that they do it by adding it to the item price. It's there but hidden.

So the only real change seems to be that we'll see the prices in Canadian dollars up front and not later on our credit card. That will be a good reality check before ordering, I suppose.

FYI......The new Canadian J Crew is up and running. It's nice to see Canadian prices up front. All seems good.