Australian free rider markets in everything

From the excellent and apparently inexhaustible Mark Thorson:

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 Brisbane suburb of Coorparoo, Reddit user BarrettFox reported.

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.

“I’ve had a gut full of working and not getting paid,” Georgina, who didn’t want her surname published, told AAP.

The full article is here.  The store owner comments:

“I can tell straight away who are the rat bags who are going to come in here and pick my brain and disappear,” she said.