Since the US-Canada border closed to non-essential traffic 20 months ago over coronavirus fears, Auntie Pam’s Country Store has been cut off from 75 percent of its customers – literally.
Selling an eclectic mix of penny candies, homemade soaps, knitwear, imported dresses and basic essentials, the store sits in Point Roberts, Washington, a western US town surrounded by water on three sides and connected by land only to Canada. Roughly three-quarters of the area’s homeowners are Canadians who have been cut off from their properties by the closure.
Sales have dropped 90 percent since March 2020 when the border closed to non-essential travel, said Pam Sheppard, the store’s owner, known locally as Auntie Pam. Most other businesses in the community of fewer than 2,000 residents are also in dire financial straights, she added.
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