Low Prices, Large Selection Lure Canadian Shoppers To American Supermarkets

As Lisa Aulbrook pushed her cart across the parking lot at Sam’s Club in Niagara Falls, she passed several vehicles with Ontario license plates. At one SUV, a Canadian family unloaded a cart filled with groceries, including four gallons of milk. Inside the store, Aulbrook chatted up a fellow Canadian whose cart contained three rotisserie chickens and a five-pound bag of mozzarella cheese.

Aulbrook, who crosses the border from Niagara Falls, Ont., to buy her groceries in the states once a week, loaded her own cart with rib-eye steaks, milk, Kraft cheese, hamburger patties, dog treats, butter and Minute Rice.

The prices are so much better here, she said, it’s well worth the trip.

“This would cost $75 at home,” she said, pointing to a giant pork loin priced at $19.48. “It’s like a rich man’s food over there.”

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