Originally Posted by
rwoman
I have a Belgian friend who is going to the US for the first time this coming August...one thing they plan to do is SHOP...tends to be much cheaper!

Anyone who has spent a reasonable amount of time in Europe knows this. Pretty much everything is cheaper in the US.
A while back I trying to look for various award flight options and I was looking at the Aeroflot site and they were advertising 3 day shopping trips to NYC. The fact that the sold such a package suggests that such a demand is there.