I went to buy a new wet/dry vac from the Home Depot. I was looking at the Ridgid WD1450 53L Wet/Dry Vac. The price at my local Home Depot is $149.00. I checked the price on the American HomeDepot.Com website for the exact samemodel number and found that the price was $99.00.
This is a 50% difference. The Canadian dollar has been on par now for quite a long time and this kind of discrepancy should not still be in place. I am in Winnipeg so it is not like this is some remote far off location.
The reason for the price difference is that home depot includes shipping and handling in the store price, while that is not included in the online price until you are ready to checkout online.