japo1
07.02.08, 16:55
Jak bylo do przewidzenia, dollar pomalu wypierany bedzie przez
prawdziwe pieniadze:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the latest example that the U.S. dollar
just ain't what it used to be, some shops in New York City have
begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for
merchandise.
"We had decided that money is money and we'll take it and just do
the exchange whenever we can with our bank," Robert Chu, owner of
East Village Wines, told Reuters television.
The increasingly weak U.S. dollar, once considered the king among
currencies, has brought waves of European tourists to New York with
money to burn and looking to take advantage of hugely favorable
exchange rates.
"We didn't realize we would take so much in and there were that
many people traveling or having euros to bring in. But some days,
you'd be surprised at how many euros you get," Chu said.
"Now we have to get familiar with other currencies and the
(British) pound and the Canadian dollars we take," he said.
While shops in many U.S. towns on the Canadian border have long
accepted Canadian currency and some stores on the Texas-Mexico
border take pesos, the acceptance of foreign money in Manhattan was
unheard of until recently.
Not far from Chu's downtown wine emporium, Billy Leroy of Billy's
Antiques & Props said the vast numbers of Europeans shopping in the
neighborhood got him thinking, "My God, I should take euros in at
the store."
Leroy doesn't even bother to exchange them.
"I'm happy if I take in 200 euros, because what I do is keep them,"
he said. "So when I go back to Paris, I don't have to go through
the nightmare of going to an exchange place."
