King Charles goods selling fast in Canada ahead of coronation
died in September, Carl Hulme happened to be in England – the perfect spot to scoop up commemorative fine bone china, tea towels and canvas bags to stock his Blimeys British Store and Gift Shop in Essex, Ont.were arriving at his shop about 30 kilometres from the Windsor-Detroit border.
Joanne McNeish, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor specializing in marketing, suspects the array of products will delight Canadian monarchists, royalists, memorabilia collectors and many who just want something to mark a historical moment. She estimates collectors of memorabilia or people who pick items up now in hopes of selling them for a profit years later will only make up five per cent of buyers.
“Most of this will be U.S., of course, but I would have thought that spending by Canadians on coronation merchandise would be around US$8 million naturally,” he wrote in an email to The Canadian Press.“Canadians will come as tourists to see and engage in the coronation, but I would not have thought the Canadian delegation would be greater than 2,000 to 3,000.
“When people are going to die or even after their deaths, there tends to be a bigger explosion in acquiring something .”
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