An Australian retailer has a simple message for people who just want to
look around: pay up or get out.
A specialty grocery store in Brisbane, Australia, began charging a $5
“just looking” fee in February, Consumerist reports.
The policy is intended to curb the "high volume of people who use
this store as a reference point and then purchase goods elsewhere," reads
the sign posted outside the store.
This policy will prove very effective as the store in question will soon
no longer have anybody in it at all, and that sign on the window could well be
replaced by a sign saying closing down everything must go.
I get that it must be frustrating for a store owner to have a lot of
potential customers come in look around and then go elsewhere, but I fail to
see how charging them $5 will help the situation.
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