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| Subject: LOL: OZschwitz grocery store charges $5 to browse Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:11 pm | |
| A Brisbane specialty grocery store owner is charging customers to browse after becoming fed up with people who enquire but don't buy.
A poster telling customers they'll be charged $5 for browsing if they don't purchase anything has been put up at Celiac Supplies in the suburb of Coorparoo.
Owner of the gluten free produce store, Georgina, says she resorted to putting up the sign after spending hours each week giving advice to people who leave empty-handed.
About 60 people a week would go into the store, ask questions and then buy the same or similar product at a supermarket chain or online. Advertisement
"I've had a gut full of working and not getting paid," Georgina, who didn't want her surname published, said.
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/grocery-store-charges-5-to-browse-20130326-2gry3.html#ixzz2OgrmBjez
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