On today's episode of "I wasn't going to, but now that you mention it, that's a great idea!"
I'd never considered this. Thanks for the idea, sign!
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.
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.
Funny, I'm actually more inclined to do it now.
Just do it at places like Home Depot or Lowe's. Don't do it at your neighborhood garden center.
Why? It's not like you're costing the shop money by taking trash off the floor. If anything you're more likely to spend money at the shop you do it at for supplies and such.
half of my succulents at home are from leaves that have fallen off in stores. sue me.
Pinching off a leaf seems icky, but fallen leaves are fair game.
You sound like you steal from the forest. Abhorrent thief.
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.
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....
I like that. Good for him.
That's awesome.
Honestly, grafting plants is like fucking alchemy in my mind. That shit is crazy.
Tissue culture protocols are basically modern druidic alchemy.
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.
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.
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
Someone in my town has a big clump of some kind of tall ruffly flower that stands on a stalk amidst tall upwards-sticking blade leaves. Very neat and it seems to grow quickly to fill the area every spring. I've been too nervous to ask for a bit of it, but maybe I can buck up some courage and ask.
We really do live in a dystopia.
So many examples every day.
Dystopia is when small sign.
Well how much is it worth? You going to ring me up for a leaf?
I don't approve of shoplifting, but their cute new word makes me want to try it.
I love how their primary focus here is teaching you the term and only secondary concern is anti-theft.
"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.
It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol
… picking up…
No, Carl. I clearly up loaded that shit into my biodiversity.
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