Pinching off a leaf seems icky, but fallen leaves are fair game.
You sound like you steal from the forest. Abhorrent thief.
~~Abhorrent~~ Arbor-ent thief.
This comment is an aberration.
~~abberration~~ arbor-ation
I suspect you called me out to do this by your choice of words. I appreciate it.
I usually take the floor leaves and tuck them into a plant or two I actually buy. That way I'm still paying for something and I might get some freebies if I can get the extra leaves to grow but it's not guaranteed. I probably wouldn't do this at a local store tho, just the big box stores.
I wasn’t thinking about it before, but I’m thinking about it now.
It's not theft, it's basically dumpster diving for living things. Living things that can grow in dirt with some water. They just see lost profit not an actual product loss.
I'll say if this is a family run place - it's still a dick move. If it's Lowes, Home Depot, or Menards, eh who cares.
Depends. If you weren't going to buy it anyway, it doesn't cost them anything. And if you're grabbing a fallen leaf hoping for something, it seems like you aren't all that interested anyway.
Just to add some context, succulents are ridiculously easy to propagate from a fallen leaf. You literally just put them somewhere until they sprout roots and stick that in a pot. Takes a week, two max. That said, succulents also take years to mature. Your little sprouted leaf is going to stay small for about 2 years and by 4 or 5 it'll look decent. So it may be "theft", but by the time you've gotten a plant that's on par with the one you got a leaf from, years will have passed and you'll have likely spent money on pots, soil, and fertilizer from the same store you "stole" from. It's like pinching a small bottle of paint from a craft store then turning around and spending $100 on canvasses and brushes
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so what you're saying is I need to steal leaves and also paint brushes and art supplies, got it
Pretty sure some people believe that dumpster diving is theft too
They just see lost profit not an actual product loss.
so it's just like pirating movies
YOU'RE STEALING OUR TRASH! REEEEEEEEE!
If you clip a healthy plant without asking the owner first, you're a dick. But if I see you do it at a store, no I didn't. Cause the store made $2,550,000 while I was typing this.
Are we talking about the 450 square meter store that looks like an industrial warehouse, or the 12 square meter handcrafted-everything boutique?
Cause if it's the former, I didn't see you shoplift a whole ass plant and if it's the latter and I see you clip the tiniest part of a plant, I'm calling you out loudly.
It's a dick move to pinch leaves if for no other reason that someone else may want to buy that plant, and you're damaging it. Enough people do it, it's a dead plant.
Leaves fallen to the floor? Boutique or not, fair game. If you're willing to propagate from a leaf, you're probably not going to be buying whole plants anyway, and it doesn't hurt the store.
Kind of reads like an instruction, not a discouragement.
Like the person who was ordered to make the sign is not the one who wanted it.
It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol
This is likely to prevent people from cutting the plants and later saying they picked up a fallen bit.
Yup, I doubt they actually care about people picking stuff off the floor.
The boots-on-the-ground staff absolutely does not give af. It's definitely middle management that's being bitched at by higher-ups that are scared of losing a fraction of a penny.
Source: middle management that gets bitched at by higher-ups that never set foot on the property.
I don't even think management cares about actually picking up stuff from the floor, they want to stop people cutting off parts of plants and claiming they're taken from the floor.
Ex-retail worker here that spent a lot of time in aisles, counting inventory, etc.
Steal whatever you want; I don't care. Not my job to look after that shit and I wasn't paid enough for it anyway.
My father enjoys grafting plants, he has an apple tree with 15 types of apples on it. Come to find out he's been snipping tiny branches off apple trees at Home Depot....
That's awesome.
Honestly, grafting plants is like fucking alchemy in my mind. That shit is crazy.
Well how much is it worth? You going to ring me up for a leaf?
I love how their primary focus here is teaching you the term and only secondary concern is anti-theft.
I'd never considered this. Thanks for the idea, sign!
I don't approve of shoplifting, but their cute new word makes me want to try it.
Maybe it is illegal in the sense that some succulents ARE invasive species
I do know that people go to garden shops looking for free material for growth lying on the ground, which id argue is unnecessary. Most people who own plants or a garden will happily share with you the fact if you show the ittyest bittiest piece of interest in them, and also share plants as well.
Hell I regularly give out succulent saplings for free or as a gift to friends and people I meet.
So yeah, you can just ask man, it's no biggie
half of my succulents at home are from leaves that have fallen off in stores. sue me.
In the corpora-fascist future, all plants are copyrighted variants and you merely purchase a license to possess one plant.
This is already happening. There's a company who copyrighted a breed of pineapple. They charge $400 for said pineapple and the company intentionally chops the top completely off, so that it cannot be propagated. Normally, you can take the green part of a pineapple, put it in the ground, and a few years later you'll have a new pineapple. It's ridiculous.
"no PLEASE don't spend half your paycheck here then get something for free :((( Pay me more money? I report u!!!!!"
Anyone know what store this is?
Plant props aren't a basic necessity. The plant shop doesn't decide your paycheck.
If you want to steal food from Walmart, go head, but don't feel entitled to whatever you want.
On today's episode of "I wasn't going to, but now that you mention it, that's a great idea!"
Things should not be alive if humans can't confine or use them for our capitalist purposes!
Theft of garbage. Sure, store owner, whatever.
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