Breaking into the South Dakota market was very difficult. Wall Drug, which dominates the state's economy, and which carries a large selection of rocks and stones, took a patriotic stance. They seem to have a history of circling the wagons down that way. The ironic part of this is that about the only item they don't retail is kayaks, so who knows why they made such a fuss over Official Canadian Ballast Rocks (TM). Richard Culpeper www.geocities.com/~culpeper Philip Wylie wrote: --snip-- > Since Nafta agreements with the State of South Dakota are currently being abrogated by the Americans > for their lack of compliance with said Nafta agreements, Canada will be invoking a full scale sell > off of Canadian Ballast Rocks with expected trade advantage over the USA gaining dominant foothold > in the Southern Pacific Hemisphere of Oceania. Yes folks this will mean a full scale trade war with > Canada > coming out on top! --snip-- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Oct 11 1998 - 04:35:33 PDT
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