that's very clearly not what i meant :-)
please see "end of freemium" comment
If someone opens a shop and invites me to walk around, browse and chat, then that's nice - maybe i will buy.
but saying "now you must pay an entrance fee because you are wearing earphones - we want customers to listen to our trained shop staff" is kind of defeating the point.
yes they can set up weird rules for their shop, but it's dishonest to change the game now, and frankly counter productive