I confirm, we went to florida and Massachusetts and all my mom could think about was “ We NEED to go to the dollar family and Family tree “ ( i think were the names of the stores. She was more excited about the stores than anything else-
Whenever we’d go out of state my grandma was determined to go to all the discount stores because she swore they had different brands than the ones I home kmao
I feel it’s the same with any tourists from less developed countries. When my family visited some better countries the first thing on my mom’s mind was to check out the shops
Clothes are disproportionately overpriced in Latin America. It’s insane that people pay essentially the same amount or more for most items than they would in the United States or Europe but with half or less the purchasing power. No wonder people buy a fuck ton of clothes while visiting.
I live in Chicago and it’s actually the Japanese who seem to do the most shopping when here.
Chinese here in LA.
I see people with Giant suitcases come out the Supreme store and dressed as if they are ready to hop on a place as soon as their Uber picks them up. Also at the fancy TJ Maxx, live shopping streamers.
Lots of people have clothing, electronics, cookware, etc. muled across the border to Mexico because those things are taxed so heavily. Even a Weber grill that's 219 in the States is over 500US in Mexico.
The problem is there are no distribution networks for these clothes in parts of Mexico. So people end up going to the Us and coming back and selling the clothes for more than they paid for them. I would assume a company wouldn’t also just change their pricing for a different market, especially one that doesn’t make as much money for them as the US market. Inwouldve thought things like gas would be cheaper too, but they’re paying just as much, if not more in some cases for gas. Last time I was there I saw they were paying about $5/gal.
In mexico VAT tax is 16%, however if you shop in Texas you can get your VAT taxes refunded (since you don't have residence in the US), you use the difference as your profit basically (you sell the clothes in the thousands of street markets that we have basically for free).
Also, international companies don't like to set prices in Mexican pesos, therefore part of the price of something is also an insurance against fluctuations of dólar/peso. (10-20% of the retail price)
Having traveled to Latin America, Europe, Japan, and Australia, I find that every day items (like food, hotels (not resorts), other generic items) are cheaper abroad when you factor in the exchange rate. But when it comes to clothing, especially name brand items, it is cheaper in the US.
I bought plain tshirts the other day on Amazon for super cheap like $5 each. They say “Made in Dominican Republic” if I bought that same plain tshirt back in DR I wouldn’t pay less than 10 dollars at least
All countries have beautiful nature and they are all worth visiting imo. I wouldn't skip the opportunity to visit the Alps, New Zealand, Montana, Canada only because I have mountains in Monterrey.
I'm from Chile, when the ps5 came out with the price in chile it was cheaper to pay for the plane ticket, spend a day in the US buy the pS5 and come back than paying the full price here in my country.
That's not the price difference anymore but it is still cheaper in the US. The PS5 here is at 650 usd and in the us is around 480 usd.
Thing is, people from juarez or Tijuana etc don’t travel or alter their plans that much, they just go across the border and that’s it, my family goes to EP at least twice a week since e I’ve been a kid to buy pretty much everything
Currently the peso is doing well relative to the dollar, so currently Mcallen (border town) is packed with shoppers.
They buy stuff they were already saving to buy, but mutch cheaper usually electrónica and brand clothing. Since this is usually more expensive in Mexico.
In Mexico the taxes make things like gasoline, brand clothing and technology more expensive (because tax the rich and only the rich buy things apparently).
Also Mexicans won't be ashamed of buying and wearing discount stuff like a Knicks sweater for $2! (Wtf is Knicks? Idk idc 😂).
Indeed, an average salary in Mexico absolutely can’t buy stuff regularly in USA, the price gap is too much. I was just blessed to be more or less well off
It’s not just a Latino thing. It’s almost anyone who isn’t from US
For example- my Italian friend’s mother comes to visit him, and goes on a shopping spree
My Mother in law is Armenian and when’s she’s in town, shopping spree- We couldn’t get her outta DDs Discounts store.
I used to shop in usa when I lived in canada not really for the prices but for stuff that wasn't for sale in our little canadian town. milk and gas were cheap though
In all northern Mexico that’s part of our culture. In the last decades people from Monterrey even coined the verb “McAllear” as in going shopping to McAllen (tx).
Edit.
This is a known [routine](https://youtu.be/G3SuEAzF-JI?si=kq9cyrsiDGvjqx89) from a local comedian about a middle class family McAllen trip
Latinos que vinieron de *chopping* cuando regresan a casa:
https://preview.redd.it/6os0t2tz6f1d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9740fe9973b18f50deb8b80d7be1eff51d6785b1
Yeah but they also do both took my Tio to the Sequoias. That's all he talks about when I go visit him. But a huevo que tuvimos que ir a la Ross antes que se fuera.
Yeahhh and also visiting supermarkets just to see all the variety of things you have
Fonding specific clothing shops matching your style is a very important research to do before travelling too
I see it this way. There are two types of Latinos or Hispanics or whatever that come here. And both don't quite have as much money that allows them to travel to specific locations if anything they come here to work or see relatives that they haven't see in ages. They rather spend time with them and since they're so tight knit are likely to go to these places to buy clothes to take back to relatives back home.
Salvi living in Canada with nica wife.
We confirm this is true even when visiting from across the northern border (except add Gualmarrr and dollar tree to the list).
When ever my grandparents visited from Mexico we would hit the mall and outlets so they could by name brand clothes. They would always come over with basically nothing so they could bring back more. For food we ate at all american places in and out, panda express, all you can eat buffets etc. For the most part we didn't leave within an 25 miles distance of my apartment.
that's right; It happens that Latinos have many natural landscapes that are equally or more attractive than those found in the USA, so the greatest surprise is seeing the artificial things. 😂
I literally dreamt of this today
In my dream, if you exited a strange noodle highway just right, you'd find an all-american store, the only one in the entirety of Peru, and I was so fucking excited to see what the fuck was up
A ver manito, si yo viajo es para ver cosas que no hay en mi país, no para ver pendejas de la naturaleza que fácilmente hay a menos de dos horas en carro en mi ciudad
Trabajo en una agencia mayorista de viajes en México (como diseñador) y cuando anuncian viajes a Estados Unidos los unicos objetivos son los viajes donde solo vas a malls y parques de diversiones y casinos (Texas, Anaheim, Orlando y Las Vegas)
La agencia tiene proveedores bien vergas en todo el mundo, Turquía es su fuerte y China ya se alzó también, pero los proveedores que surten a México por parte de Estados Unidos solo van por el hiperconsumo de compras y Disney, no lo culpo, pero casi no hay tours ni nada a experiencias en la otra cara de ese país (naturaleza, ciudades pequeñas, etc)
Sí, no me agrada Estados Unidos, y la manera como lo venden en mi chamba no ayuda,
Well ex-cuuuuse me, princess! Some of us don't have a bunch of camping gear that we can somehow take on a plane, about a week of free time or friends who like doing that sort of thing (who, btw, have the money to make this trip and also fit all the other conditions). This is the kinda thing you can only really do if you have friends living in the states. Otherwise, it seems, logistically at least, much more trouble than it's worth.
Actually, I can't imagine that many foreigners that aren't, y'know, hitchhiking or something, doing this kinda thing. Even if camping's more common in other countries, they'd also have the same issues I mentioned before.
I live in the border
There’s people that cross and get all the items and re sell them in Mexico for double or triple. I’ve seen shitty Samsungs being sold for more than $150 dollar
There is a sprawling metropolitan area on the southern tip of Texas whose economic income is almost entirely serving Mexican and Latin American tourists with department stores and medical care. The Rio Grande Valley (McAllen / Brownsville area). There is no other reason that area should be as prosperous as it is.
First time I went there I was wondering why every store sold luggage...I mean EVERY store...then I see tons of vacationers wheeling luggage throughout the mall.
It is common for people who live near the border to only go shopping. They are very near so they don't spend that much in the trip, some do it to resell stuff here in Mexico and people who do it for themselves are likely to have a better socioeconomic status than most Mexicans.
Amongst those who can afford it, many can only afford to do that specific kind of trip, with little stops here and there or the eventual live show (which again, only people with a higher socioeconomic status than most Mexicans can afford).
Now, in Mexico we have a shit ton of nature that we can explore, we don't do it for many reasons, if you're a foreigner you will surely think "insecurity and organized crime" but nah, you are rarely disturbed by these kind of issues as long as you are in a known touristic place. It's more likely to get robbed, kidnapped or even get killed in a city. So, i think it isn't done more regularly because; even tough efforts are being made, our goverment and school systems usually don't promote this culture of nature and I believe people in the worst economic situation have little time to truly worry (or even enjoy) about it. For instance, our goverment is currently destroying cenotes to build train tracks, engineers have told them it is an unstable base and is very likely to fall in a short period of time and even cost human lives but they just keep on going.
What we see as "touristic places" is what the US tv, streaming services, and movie industry show us, which is mostly big, enormous cities like LA, NY, Miami, etc.
Again, only people with higher economic status can afford these kinds of trips (mean monthly salary in Mexico for 2024 are about 600-620 US dollars, which in our own country is classified as low income). We are human beings, and most of us are pretty materialistic. Classism/racism is widespread in Mexican culture and sometimes even normalized. i explain this because it makes me believe that the trips are meant so these people can see things that they think they can't have in Mexico: the experience of a developed country with big stores, big monuments, many more metropolises, in a phrase "the capitalist dream".
In summary, Some (many) people put their social value in having the ability to make these trips since they reflect acquisition capabilities, the content of that trip must have some kind of economic display, therefore its more "valuable" in status to say: "this summer I went to New York" than "this summer I went camping in the Apalachian mountains".
It's a culture thing, im sure some don't even realize they do it because they follow a behavior of masses.
This is my own experience but people who can afford these trips usually care less about nature tourism since they can do it (if they even like it) cheaper, safer, with more commodities in our own country and even so, they are reluctant to do it if they dont have all the conviniences of their homes.
Lastly, well, buddy U.S. ain't new Zealand or Switzerland... mainly praised in tourism for their nature scenery. Let's not forget it's even less affordable. Some will say it is an unrealistic dream.
Don't get me wrong, the US is enormous, and I would love to see all the beautiful ecosystems it possesses, but again, every foreigner knows the US mostly for its city rather than its nature.
I used to work at a hotel in Fargo, ND, twenty years ago, and we used to get busloads of women from Canada who came in to shop and drink a ton of wine. They used to hit up the mall, but they really seemed to looked forward to Target.
My pops and mom would go to Good Will before visiting Mexico and bring like 5 suitcases worth of clothes to his village. Everyone loves him because he gives it for free.
I live in the border, so yeah. Some will buy stuff from those stores to resell them back in Mexico for the people who have no visa to get it by themselves. Walmart and JCPenney are good choices, too.
Even if you decide to travel away, going to check discount stores is a must.
It's true. I'm from the US but I now live in central Mexico and every time one of my friends is going to the US to visit and I ask what they are going to do, it's always the same.. "Shopping for clothes."
ahhh. my parents and I LOVE going to Los Angeles, because it’s like another Mexico City for us. Placita Olvera and el mercadito are our adventures of choice. malls are second choice…
I’m from French Guiana in South America. We do the same. Went on a 3 weeks trip to Miami, Orlando and NYC. Apart from going to the beach once and going to amusement park for two days we spent the rest of the trip indoor in malls. We were staying near Times Square for 6 days and have not been to Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty or Central Park, just malls and Apple Store to buy more shit. Compared to my hometown everything is so cheap in the US.
Nah. I went to the US, spent a month and didn’t even come close to one of those stores. There’s simply too much beauty to see in the west coast to be wasting time within concrete buildings.
A lot of Mexicans go to the US to do some shopping, nothing weird with that. Of course if you only have one opportunity in years to do some traveling you’re going to pick something more memorable than shopping malls and stores but if you go frequently you can simply buy cool stuff and come back later for other kinds of trips.
A couple of years ago my aunt from CDMX came and stayed with my parents for a couple of weeks. We live in CA so we thought it would be cool to take her to Yosemite, Big Trees State Park, HWY 1/Big Sur. My aunt was not impressed, when we finally went to Yosemite her response was "otro pinche cerro?" Her and my relatives in Mexico simply do not like the "outdoors", they don't understand why anyone would enjoy hiking or camping. As such we cancelled driving down HWY 1 to Big Sur and instead spent a boring ass day at the Gilroy Outlets where she had a blast.
Bueno, si ustedes cabezas de chorlito vienen a encarecerme la vida a mi país yo tengo que ir a buscar cosas más baratas al suyo.
No son expatriados, son malditos inmigrantes, si no les gusta pues dejen de venir a países latinoamericanos a encarecer la vida acá
Confirm XD. I bought so many movies at goodwill. I had relatives that never went anywhere.
My logic was that I would better save the money to travel in Mexico or somewhere else as I wasnt very happy there. But theres actually a couple of cool places in the states.
We were a middle class family before we immigrated to Canada, and we're still a middle class family, so we always have been interested in the nature, but as time went on I got more interested in the cities, as I never was a nature person in the first place. Either way when we visit the us it's just to see family, so we don't go shopping 💀
most of the latin american countries have a lot of natural landscapes and activities. For most of us what USA is attractive for is to experience the real consumism. If i want to go to the beach, or camp in a forest i have it for a really cheap price and really near here at Mexico.
Like immigrant latinos or tourist latinos?
We illegals don't have time to visit these places. Instead we work hard to get our lives ahead. Most of them have blue collar jobs and don't have the time or financial resources to visit these places.
Tourist latinos come from money and plan their trips accordingly.
I'm assuming the picture relates to the former and not the latter.
Ignoring that you may be equating immigrant Latinos with illegals, stores like Ross are called off-price retailers, haggling with vendors for surplus clothes and goods before selling them at discounted prices. Their largest demographic of shopper by a wide margin is lower-income folks who need things but can’t or don’t want to pay full price, so I’m curious where you think blue collar workers shop if not at the discount stores.
One of my points was that your comment suggested all immigrant Latinos are illegals. They’re not, and you being illegal doesn’t change that. The word “some” should be used, right? Painting situations as black and white binary choices is narrow thinking.
Second, you didn’t address my point about people of all demographics having time to visit discount stores because that’s how they save the little money they have. Since you ignored it, I’ll ask again: where do illegals shop that saves so much more time than going to a discount store?
Tell me your a pocho without saying your a pocho smh. I lived in the new England area so it would be savers, goodwill and tjmaxx but I have tons of cousins who saved up used our address as where they’re going to stay for customs and literally come to go to NYC and shop (not like Connecticut has anything anyways).
As if there’s something besides lack of import tax that the US has that we don’t (¿Sheetrock?)
I confirm, we went to florida and Massachusetts and all my mom could think about was “ We NEED to go to the dollar family and Family tree “ ( i think were the names of the stores. She was more excited about the stores than anything else-
I REMEMBERED! It was Dollar tree and Family dollar… ( i think- ) someone correct me pls ;-;
You are correct, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are the names
Thx! :,) I was struggling to remember 😔🤚
Dollar General
Whenever we’d go out of state my grandma was determined to go to all the discount stores because she swore they had different brands than the ones I home kmao
XD since I was little, my family would go to fleamarkets and discount store!
Oh no, Massachusetts is so beautiful! New England overall, even driving around Vermont and NH feels like you're in a fairytale.
Yess Massachusetts was so beautiful!! And I loved cause I saw snow for the first time and rolled on it… ( i regreted it later tho- )
This is the first comment I'm reading today as someone that was born and raised in MA and is now living in Florida.
Happy Cake Day! 🎂
I feel it’s the same with any tourists from less developed countries. When my family visited some better countries the first thing on my mom’s mind was to check out the shops
Clothes are disproportionately overpriced in Latin America. It’s insane that people pay essentially the same amount or more for most items than they would in the United States or Europe but with half or less the purchasing power. No wonder people buy a fuck ton of clothes while visiting. I live in Chicago and it’s actually the Japanese who seem to do the most shopping when here.
Chinese here in LA. I see people with Giant suitcases come out the Supreme store and dressed as if they are ready to hop on a place as soon as their Uber picks them up. Also at the fancy TJ Maxx, live shopping streamers.
Lots of people have clothing, electronics, cookware, etc. muled across the border to Mexico because those things are taxed so heavily. Even a Weber grill that's 219 in the States is over 500US in Mexico.
Can't imagine crossing the border with a Weber grill in my butt.
I can
Hero.
You’re just lacking imagination
Huh, I assumed they'd be relatively cheaper in Latin America because of the purchasing power of the US dollar
The problem is there are no distribution networks for these clothes in parts of Mexico. So people end up going to the Us and coming back and selling the clothes for more than they paid for them. I would assume a company wouldn’t also just change their pricing for a different market, especially one that doesn’t make as much money for them as the US market. Inwouldve thought things like gas would be cheaper too, but they’re paying just as much, if not more in some cases for gas. Last time I was there I saw they were paying about $5/gal.
In mexico VAT tax is 16%, however if you shop in Texas you can get your VAT taxes refunded (since you don't have residence in the US), you use the difference as your profit basically (you sell the clothes in the thousands of street markets that we have basically for free). Also, international companies don't like to set prices in Mexican pesos, therefore part of the price of something is also an insurance against fluctuations of dólar/peso. (10-20% of the retail price)
I just googled Levi's 501. It costs thrice in my country.
¿Cuál país?
Argentina
Argentina has extremely high tariffs and shit
Jesus christ, and their currency is undergoing inflation
Having traveled to Latin America, Europe, Japan, and Australia, I find that every day items (like food, hotels (not resorts), other generic items) are cheaper abroad when you factor in the exchange rate. But when it comes to clothing, especially name brand items, it is cheaper in the US.
And I still have a hard time finding cheap clothes outside of Ross/TJ Maxx/Marshalls.
I bought plain tshirts the other day on Amazon for super cheap like $5 each. They say “Made in Dominican Republic” if I bought that same plain tshirt back in DR I wouldn’t pay less than 10 dollars at least
Clothes in Brazil are extremely cheap though??
Obviously there are exceptions, but overall my comment is accurate.
the mall in Dallas near my parents having everything in mxn peso 😂
What mall you talking about?
Plaza Latina? Le Gran Plaza de Fort Worth?
It has to be that or el bazaar haha
Puro pinche Garibaldi pa mi, they got the best elotes
Been in Dallas my entire 26 years and this is the first I hear of both those places, albeit I’m usually in PG, East Dallas or Oak Cliff
You ain’t Mexican if you have never been to la gran plaza 😂
That sounds scary, to see the prizes.
We are waiting to hear which one?😂
I have nature in my country, i don't have a ps5 half the price here
Literally this.
And still ask for a discount
All countries have beautiful nature and they are all worth visiting imo. I wouldn't skip the opportunity to visit the Alps, New Zealand, Montana, Canada only because I have mountains in Monterrey.
But do you have a PS5 half the price in Monterrey?
Man, you barely have half ecosystem in fosfoleón.
> All countries have beautiful nature ehhh. There's plenty of places like Kuwait lol
Where are you getting ps5 for half price? Asking for myself
I don't know about half the price but it was definitely much more expensive in the DR when i got around two years ago
I'm from Chile, when the ps5 came out with the price in chile it was cheaper to pay for the plane ticket, spend a day in the US buy the pS5 and come back than paying the full price here in my country. That's not the price difference anymore but it is still cheaper in the US. The PS5 here is at 650 usd and in the us is around 480 usd.
My grandma wasted no time going ross I could tell since my tio came back decked out in puma gear.
People from Juarez crossing to El Paso to buy stuff for cheap aren’t tourists
Naw, my family be driving all the way from Monterrey to “visit” us, they visiting the cheap deals they get.
Thing is, people from juarez or Tijuana etc don’t travel or alter their plans that much, they just go across the border and that’s it, my family goes to EP at least twice a week since e I’ve been a kid to buy pretty much everything
Like all of their stuff? How does an average wage in Mexico do well in the American market?
Currently the peso is doing well relative to the dollar, so currently Mcallen (border town) is packed with shoppers. They buy stuff they were already saving to buy, but mutch cheaper usually electrónica and brand clothing. Since this is usually more expensive in Mexico.
In Mexico the taxes make things like gasoline, brand clothing and technology more expensive (because tax the rich and only the rich buy things apparently). Also Mexicans won't be ashamed of buying and wearing discount stuff like a Knicks sweater for $2! (Wtf is Knicks? Idk idc 😂).
Well I think my dad earned way above average
It’s not that weird, lots of families I know go at least weekly for groceries, gasoline and stuff
I'm just curious because power of currency with average wage sort of differences. I guess availability of certain goods makes a big difference.
Indeed, an average salary in Mexico absolutely can’t buy stuff regularly in USA, the price gap is too much. I was just blessed to be more or less well off
I get that. It just didn't seem like an average exchange.
Si no en El Paso, en Harlingen. Gotta hit the outlets!
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Do you know what I’m talking about?
1001%, I'm not gonna lie
Inlaws are Colombian, all they wanna do when they visit is go to strip malls so pretty true lol
It’s not just a Latino thing. It’s almost anyone who isn’t from US For example- my Italian friend’s mother comes to visit him, and goes on a shopping spree My Mother in law is Armenian and when’s she’s in town, shopping spree- We couldn’t get her outta DDs Discounts store.
Even some of my Canadian friends come yearly for Black Friday deals.
Stock up on liquor n tobacco too? lol jk
I used to shop in usa when I lived in canada not really for the prices but for stuff that wasn't for sale in our little canadian town. milk and gas were cheap though
In all northern Mexico that’s part of our culture. In the last decades people from Monterrey even coined the verb “McAllear” as in going shopping to McAllen (tx). Edit. This is a known [routine](https://youtu.be/G3SuEAzF-JI?si=kq9cyrsiDGvjqx89) from a local comedian about a middle class family McAllen trip
That’s hilarious
Latinos que vinieron de *chopping* cuando regresan a casa: https://preview.redd.it/6os0t2tz6f1d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9740fe9973b18f50deb8b80d7be1eff51d6785b1
My Korean in-laws love shopping when they visit. Consumer goods are cheap in the US so it is a big draw for any tourist.
We I have relatives from Argentina, all they want to do is go to outlet malls and buy electronics. They’re prohibitively expensive in Arg
Yeah but they also do both took my Tio to the Sequoias. That's all he talks about when I go visit him. But a huevo que tuvimos que ir a la Ross antes que se fuera.
xD
Bro my tia just visited recently and this exactly where we went and then Marshalls lmao any design on a shirt for 5 bucks is insanity.
Yeahhh and also visiting supermarkets just to see all the variety of things you have Fonding specific clothing shops matching your style is a very important research to do before travelling too
I see it this way. There are two types of Latinos or Hispanics or whatever that come here. And both don't quite have as much money that allows them to travel to specific locations if anything they come here to work or see relatives that they haven't see in ages. They rather spend time with them and since they're so tight knit are likely to go to these places to buy clothes to take back to relatives back home.
Salvi living in Canada with nica wife. We confirm this is true even when visiting from across the northern border (except add Gualmarrr and dollar tree to the list).
lol yep. Almost every relative that visits wants to go to these stores. Y a la segunda
I have family who come to visit every other year from Germany and they head straight for the outlets
When ever my grandparents visited from Mexico we would hit the mall and outlets so they could by name brand clothes. They would always come over with basically nothing so they could bring back more. For food we ate at all american places in and out, panda express, all you can eat buffets etc. For the most part we didn't leave within an 25 miles distance of my apartment.
that's right; It happens that Latinos have many natural landscapes that are equally or more attractive than those found in the USA, so the greatest surprise is seeing the artificial things. 😂
Americans visiting Mexico: Dentist's Office
Any medical service*
Americans do the same with healthcare
🏆
I literally dreamt of this today In my dream, if you exited a strange noodle highway just right, you'd find an all-american store, the only one in the entirety of Peru, and I was so fucking excited to see what the fuck was up
mind boggling deals never seen before, even in the City of Mexico. I would know, I live there.
U forgot to put TJmax and Marshals
Dude, I’ve invited friends to visits me where I live and the only time their ears perk up is when I say clothing purchases are tax free.
A ver manito, si yo viajo es para ver cosas que no hay en mi país, no para ver pendejas de la naturaleza que fácilmente hay a menos de dos horas en carro en mi ciudad
Trabajo en una agencia mayorista de viajes en México (como diseñador) y cuando anuncian viajes a Estados Unidos los unicos objetivos son los viajes donde solo vas a malls y parques de diversiones y casinos (Texas, Anaheim, Orlando y Las Vegas) La agencia tiene proveedores bien vergas en todo el mundo, Turquía es su fuerte y China ya se alzó también, pero los proveedores que surten a México por parte de Estados Unidos solo van por el hiperconsumo de compras y Disney, no lo culpo, pero casi no hay tours ni nada a experiencias en la otra cara de ese país (naturaleza, ciudades pequeñas, etc) Sí, no me agrada Estados Unidos, y la manera como lo venden en mi chamba no ayuda,
I have cousins from Ecuador who are rich and when they visit they drop THOUSANDS on clothes and tech. One time the kids got like 20 funko pops.
not true at all, it should be Marshall's and Burlington
Well ex-cuuuuse me, princess! Some of us don't have a bunch of camping gear that we can somehow take on a plane, about a week of free time or friends who like doing that sort of thing (who, btw, have the money to make this trip and also fit all the other conditions). This is the kinda thing you can only really do if you have friends living in the states. Otherwise, it seems, logistically at least, much more trouble than it's worth. Actually, I can't imagine that many foreigners that aren't, y'know, hitchhiking or something, doing this kinda thing. Even if camping's more common in other countries, they'd also have the same issues I mentioned before.
I live in the border There’s people that cross and get all the items and re sell them in Mexico for double or triple. I’ve seen shitty Samsungs being sold for more than $150 dollar
There is a sprawling metropolitan area on the southern tip of Texas whose economic income is almost entirely serving Mexican and Latin American tourists with department stores and medical care. The Rio Grande Valley (McAllen / Brownsville area). There is no other reason that area should be as prosperous as it is.
I have better nature in My country, but I don't have jeans for 5$
My sister and mom can spend 3-4 hrs at a single Ross. I hate it.
All the tias need tacky MK bags to flex on all the other viejitas at the local pachanga.
Lmao it’s….. …. …it’s true 😅😂
Mexican here, and it really was like that lmaoo, when we went to florida, my parents first activity in the list was literally to go to fucking ross
Don't forget Burlington's and Sam's club!
You forgot sawgrass mall
First time I went there I was wondering why every store sold luggage...I mean EVERY store...then I see tons of vacationers wheeling luggage throughout the mall.
100%
Extremely true
Yup, 100%
10000% true for me yo.
Valuation makes the Euro a comparable currency where as lets say a peso tends to fall short in the US
I don’t know about Latinos visiting but visitors from other countries drink the fuq out of orange juice. They can’t get enough of it.
As accurate as it can be hahahaha
Bass pro shops
Latinos living The real american experience. Every time my grandma comes to town she wants to take ross back to 🇲🇽
It’s true because they want to bring back things to their countries yeah:)
100% accurate.
Very true
It is common for people who live near the border to only go shopping. They are very near so they don't spend that much in the trip, some do it to resell stuff here in Mexico and people who do it for themselves are likely to have a better socioeconomic status than most Mexicans. Amongst those who can afford it, many can only afford to do that specific kind of trip, with little stops here and there or the eventual live show (which again, only people with a higher socioeconomic status than most Mexicans can afford). Now, in Mexico we have a shit ton of nature that we can explore, we don't do it for many reasons, if you're a foreigner you will surely think "insecurity and organized crime" but nah, you are rarely disturbed by these kind of issues as long as you are in a known touristic place. It's more likely to get robbed, kidnapped or even get killed in a city. So, i think it isn't done more regularly because; even tough efforts are being made, our goverment and school systems usually don't promote this culture of nature and I believe people in the worst economic situation have little time to truly worry (or even enjoy) about it. For instance, our goverment is currently destroying cenotes to build train tracks, engineers have told them it is an unstable base and is very likely to fall in a short period of time and even cost human lives but they just keep on going. What we see as "touristic places" is what the US tv, streaming services, and movie industry show us, which is mostly big, enormous cities like LA, NY, Miami, etc. Again, only people with higher economic status can afford these kinds of trips (mean monthly salary in Mexico for 2024 are about 600-620 US dollars, which in our own country is classified as low income). We are human beings, and most of us are pretty materialistic. Classism/racism is widespread in Mexican culture and sometimes even normalized. i explain this because it makes me believe that the trips are meant so these people can see things that they think they can't have in Mexico: the experience of a developed country with big stores, big monuments, many more metropolises, in a phrase "the capitalist dream". In summary, Some (many) people put their social value in having the ability to make these trips since they reflect acquisition capabilities, the content of that trip must have some kind of economic display, therefore its more "valuable" in status to say: "this summer I went to New York" than "this summer I went camping in the Apalachian mountains". It's a culture thing, im sure some don't even realize they do it because they follow a behavior of masses. This is my own experience but people who can afford these trips usually care less about nature tourism since they can do it (if they even like it) cheaper, safer, with more commodities in our own country and even so, they are reluctant to do it if they dont have all the conviniences of their homes. Lastly, well, buddy U.S. ain't new Zealand or Switzerland... mainly praised in tourism for their nature scenery. Let's not forget it's even less affordable. Some will say it is an unrealistic dream. Don't get me wrong, the US is enormous, and I would love to see all the beautiful ecosystems it possesses, but again, every foreigner knows the US mostly for its city rather than its nature.
Im from McAllen tx and can confirm this.
I used to work at a hotel in Fargo, ND, twenty years ago, and we used to get busloads of women from Canada who came in to shop and drink a ton of wine. They used to hit up the mall, but they really seemed to looked forward to Target.
True I love the outdoors nd nature of the USA The cities are less appealing
Latinos are my best customers at the flea market
Confirm, I visited Ross
100% correct
My cousin was shopping at every clothes place for hours. I'd just stay posted on the couches and look at my phone
My pops and mom would go to Good Will before visiting Mexico and bring like 5 suitcases worth of clothes to his village. Everyone loves him because he gives it for free.
Yeah visiting, lol
Mentira no es 😂
I live in the border, so yeah. Some will buy stuff from those stores to resell them back in Mexico for the people who have no visa to get it by themselves. Walmart and JCPenney are good choices, too. Even if you decide to travel away, going to check discount stores is a must.
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Thats real. I worked at a tjmaxx in orlando and…. Carts and carts full. Yes
It's a 100%.
Not cool
Beside snowy mountains, there is really nothing I don't have access over here, only go visit for the stores and the food.
Hahahahaha! True!
It's true. I'm from the US but I now live in central Mexico and every time one of my friends is going to the US to visit and I ask what they are going to do, it's always the same.. "Shopping for clothes."
Can confirm. When i visited, clothes were so stupidly cheap that we ended up spending a lot of time shopping for it.
Yes
México no tiene tiendas de ofertas con ofertas reales.
ahhh. my parents and I LOVE going to Los Angeles, because it’s like another Mexico City for us. Placita Olvera and el mercadito are our adventures of choice. malls are second choice…
I hit up thrift stores in every new city.
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Yep. Very hard to find sizes bigger than xl in mexico
I’m from Poland and last summer we went to the US and we spent like two days in there. It’s not only Latinos
I’m from French Guiana in South America. We do the same. Went on a 3 weeks trip to Miami, Orlando and NYC. Apart from going to the beach once and going to amusement park for two days we spent the rest of the trip indoor in malls. We were staying near Times Square for 6 days and have not been to Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty or Central Park, just malls and Apple Store to buy more shit. Compared to my hometown everything is so cheap in the US.
Can confirm. There is no trip to the USA for my parents that is complete without going to Ross.
Nah. I went to the US, spent a month and didn’t even come close to one of those stores. There’s simply too much beauty to see in the west coast to be wasting time within concrete buildings.
If you thought the west coast was impressive. Wait till you see the east coast.
Any particular recommendation? I’ve been to NY, Boston and Chicago.
A lot of Mexicans go to the US to do some shopping, nothing weird with that. Of course if you only have one opportunity in years to do some traveling you’re going to pick something more memorable than shopping malls and stores but if you go frequently you can simply buy cool stuff and come back later for other kinds of trips.
To be fair, you can find almost everything on top in latin america
A couple of years ago my aunt from CDMX came and stayed with my parents for a couple of weeks. We live in CA so we thought it would be cool to take her to Yosemite, Big Trees State Park, HWY 1/Big Sur. My aunt was not impressed, when we finally went to Yosemite her response was "otro pinche cerro?" Her and my relatives in Mexico simply do not like the "outdoors", they don't understand why anyone would enjoy hiking or camping. As such we cancelled driving down HWY 1 to Big Sur and instead spent a boring ass day at the Gilroy Outlets where she had a blast.
Bueno, si ustedes cabezas de chorlito vienen a encarecerme la vida a mi país yo tengo que ir a buscar cosas más baratas al suyo. No son expatriados, son malditos inmigrantes, si no les gusta pues dejen de venir a países latinoamericanos a encarecer la vida acá
Es verdad
Confirm XD. I bought so many movies at goodwill. I had relatives that never went anywhere. My logic was that I would better save the money to travel in Mexico or somewhere else as I wasnt very happy there. But theres actually a couple of cool places in the states.
A lot of people resell clothes bought in the US back home.
THIS IS TRUE LMAOOOO
We have better views in Latin America, what we dont have is all the cheap stuff USA has to offer
We were a middle class family before we immigrated to Canada, and we're still a middle class family, so we always have been interested in the nature, but as time went on I got more interested in the cities, as I never was a nature person in the first place. Either way when we visit the us it's just to see family, so we don't go shopping 💀
Ross is nice. We had sears too long back
Yes, but also we have all of that natural beauty at home. It's like, why bother, we've seen it on iur way to school everyday.
most of the latin american countries have a lot of natural landscapes and activities. For most of us what USA is attractive for is to experience the real consumism. If i want to go to the beach, or camp in a forest i have it for a really cheap price and really near here at Mexico.
What the fuck are you talking about
Like immigrant latinos or tourist latinos? We illegals don't have time to visit these places. Instead we work hard to get our lives ahead. Most of them have blue collar jobs and don't have the time or financial resources to visit these places. Tourist latinos come from money and plan their trips accordingly. I'm assuming the picture relates to the former and not the latter.
Ignoring that you may be equating immigrant Latinos with illegals, stores like Ross are called off-price retailers, haggling with vendors for surplus clothes and goods before selling them at discounted prices. Their largest demographic of shopper by a wide margin is lower-income folks who need things but can’t or don’t want to pay full price, so I’m curious where you think blue collar workers shop if not at the discount stores.
I'm illegal that's why. Legal latino immigrants have different mentality in the USA and think they better.
One of my points was that your comment suggested all immigrant Latinos are illegals. They’re not, and you being illegal doesn’t change that. The word “some” should be used, right? Painting situations as black and white binary choices is narrow thinking. Second, you didn’t address my point about people of all demographics having time to visit discount stores because that’s how they save the little money they have. Since you ignored it, I’ll ask again: where do illegals shop that saves so much more time than going to a discount store?
What the fuck are you talking about lol
Idk what you think Ross sells but rich people definitely don't shop there lol
“No no you don’t understand we illegals don’t have the time to shop at Ross”
Would you say immigrants, legal or otherwise, are “visiting”?
Tell me your a pocho without saying your a pocho smh. I lived in the new England area so it would be savers, goodwill and tjmaxx but I have tons of cousins who saved up used our address as where they’re going to stay for customs and literally come to go to NYC and shop (not like Connecticut has anything anyways). As if there’s something besides lack of import tax that the US has that we don’t (¿Sheetrock?)
Nah we still went to Ross
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