Paying Fees to Browse in a Store?

[bjl584]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100592617

"These fees are the latest company tactic in the fights against counterfeiting and "showrooming," a practice in which consumers test items out at a store but then buy them online in a quest for a discount."

[disneysteve]

Very interesting and certainly not surprising. I wonder how that would fly here in the US. Stores like Best Buy are being slowly driven out of business by showrooming. With my iPhone, I don't even have to leave the store to make my purchase online. I can just scan a barcode and snap, the item is ordered at a substantial savings. One roadblock is stores getting companies to make items exclusively for them so the identical model isn't available anywhere else but only the major chains can manage this.