Traffic on the border of New Brunswick-Maine is down 38%, and for companies that depend on the southern traffic, this was a real struggle.
In the city of St. Stephen, NB, the flow of cross -border buyers of Maine slowed down to a net.
“They came every Friday on Saturday, they would do their shopping, their shopping here and everything. And they don’t come here now, ”said Cathy Sears, who directs King St.
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“We had to increase our prices and we have to close two days a week because of birth.”
The mayor of the city, Allan Maceachern, says that efforts are underway within the alliance of mayors of national borders to ensure relief of government prices or subsidies, but the results were slow to come.
“We are totally dependent on the movement of people and products and being a border community, that’s exactly what we are. So we need this traffic, “he said.
Despite cross -border tensions, a local bakery reports an increase in sales – up 15%. The owner of Fat Pie, Mike Porcelli, attributes a renewed accent on Canadian manufacturing products and increased loyalty.
“Business has not really dropped, it’s a bit a bit of a kind of influx of Americans who, just opposite, come here every day and many of them apologize for all this price,” he said.
“They claim that it was not their fault, they claim that they did not vote for it. They were extremely nice about it.”
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