How Eddie's Tunnel Helps Windsor Retailers

I just cannot believe this story. Higher business and property taxes, levies, high CDN$, border backups and now encourage people to shop in the USA!

• Deals set to lure Candians to local malls on Black Friday
  November 19, 2007
  By GRETA GUEST, FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
  
  Taubman Centers, Inc. plans an aggressive push to lure Canadians to its metro Detroit malls on the day after Thanksgiving.
  
  The Windsor-Detroit Tunnel staff will distribute one $20 voucher per vehicle starting at 5 a.m. on Nov. 23 for the first 2,007 vehicles that enter the United States from Canada.
  
  The vouchers may be redeemed from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day only — the traditional day that kicks off the U.S. holiday shopping season — at four Detroit-area Taubman malls, located within an hour’s drive of the international border.
  
  “With the Canadian dollar at a record high, there’s never been a better time for Canadians to shop in the United States,” notes Karen MacDonald, Taubman spokeswoman.
  
  One Canadian dollar was buying $1.018 in U.S. currency on Monday.
  
  The voucher can be exchanged for a gift card at the customer service centers of The Mall at Partridge Creek in Clinton Township, Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi or Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills, Mich.
  
  Bloomfield Hills-based Taubman Centers, Inc., is a real estate investment trust, that owns and/or manages 24 shopping centers in 11 states.