It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
When Ex-Im gives companies the resources they need to sell their products abroad, their employees, suppliers and communities succeed at home.
I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.
If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.
I shop online mostly. I like to shop from the comfort of my own home without a sales person bugging me.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.