Love your writing style.
For what it's worth, we do Philipsburg for tee shirts that we usually leave behind when we go home, you know the cheap ones that are thin and dry quickly but shrink when washed.
Used to buy cigars there at either Emporium or Casa de Habana but now bring my own from home, Still go to Belgium Chocolates but remember we live in Hershey.PA so we know a little bit about chocolate. Antoines, great dinner but that is not a shopping thing, but still in Philipsburg.