- cross-posted to:
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- memes@lemmy.world
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On today’s episode of “I wasn’t going to, but now that you mention it, that’s a great idea!”
Pinching off a leaf seems icky, but fallen leaves are fair game.
You sound like you steal from the forest. Abhorrent thief.
AbhorrentArbor-ent thief.This comment is an aberration.
I’m not the most familiar with entkind, but are there non arbor ent? Are the entwives something else? Cacti?
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.
bUt tHE MuLCh
(this is a non-argument unless people are taking literally every other leaf)
I’m pinching off a leaf right now.
fallen leaves are fair game
I don’t think it works like that. It’s like taking something that’s dropped but usable from the shop floor. They might just sweep it to garbage but they probably aren’t allowing you to take it anyway.
I wasn’t thinking about it before, but I’m thinking about it now.
Already done it.
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.
If it’s a family run place, just ask the owners tbh. My partner and I once asked about a fallen tradescantia piece and she actually cut us off a bigger piece and wrapped it up for us. Only thing she asked in return was for us to tell her how well it does.
It’s a big plant now :)
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
I only know about Menards because of random factoids, references, and memes. Frankly speaking I have just found out they have plants and are maybe a hardware store.
It’s not theft, it’s basically dumpster diving for living things.
That’s often not allowed either
Yes it is. We’re encouraged to find any puppies, kittens, or babies in the trash.
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.
Former retail worker here.
I was never paid enough to care about shit other than directly keeping my job. So, you know, look busy when the boss was around.
I had to stop people from stealing big shit, like TVs and such.
A hungry looking kid grabbing some food to eat in an aisle and leave the trash? Just throw the trash away please, I’m not your fucking maid.
Former bigbox manager here. The garden section is throwaway, no one gives a shit about plants. Come to me when garden tools and lawnmowers are missing.
Bad inventory practices are the leading causes of shrink. Any actual theft is securities problem.
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.
Is it a crime to enjoy a succulent leaf?
This is democracy manifest.
This gentleman touched my fruits!
I see you know your topiary well.
Are you waiting to receive my wilted branch?
I’d never considered this. Thanks for the idea, sign!
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.
Yes, you are. The people who do this would otherwise be buying plants. Not all of the plants that they pilfer because that would be expensive, but this is lost sales. I know these people. They’re doing it to save money because they want the plant.
What I mean is once you’ve made the decision to do this instead of buying, it doesn’t matter which shop you don’t buy from.
Yes! Gate life behind money.
You are doing well, my child! Bwahaha!
It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol
Oh yeah? Well now I’m just going to proplift even harder!
“Proplift” sounds like it should be a name for a weird helicopter.
Or working out with a poet, political activist, husband, father, academic & emcee who is best known by me as a prolific podcast guest
It’s too bad he’s not proplific.
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.
Imagine going to the hardware store and someone calls it a fucking “boutique”. It’s just Ace Hardware, calm down. Robert, the guy with the nose ring over there, didn’t really craft that screwdriver by hand, either. Fuckin’ liar. Yeah I’m talking about you, the fuck you gonna do about it? Next time I see you explaining how you ‘create lightbulbs with love’, I’m lighting your car on fire. Don’t think I won’t!
Anyway, what were we - oh yeah. Ace Hardware. Now impeccably posh, I guess.
Things should not be alive if humans can’t confine or use them for our capitalist purposes!
This sign is giving me ideas
