Pinching off a leaf seems icky, but fallen leaves are fair game.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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You sound like you steal from the forest. Abhorrent thief.
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.
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I wasn’t thinking about it before, but I’m thinking about it now.
Already done 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?
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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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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.
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I mean if you're pinching a leaf then that's not in the dubious territory, that's just straight up stealing. And it's not like someone is stealing fucking plant leaves to stave off starvation lol
It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol
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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.
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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.
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Well how much is it worth? You going to ring me up for a leaf?
Executive boardroom
"How can we barcode each individual leaf? Surely this is an untapped market?" -some MBA
I love how their primary focus here is teaching you the term and only secondary concern is anti-theft.
If I want to steal from you I will. You can try guilting me all you want but I just don’t care.
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.
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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
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I'd never considered this. Thanks for the idea, sign!
In the corpora-fascist future, all plants are copyrighted variants and you merely purchase a license to possess one plant.
That's not the future, man, that's the farms of today. Monsanto literally searches farms for seeds and will issue huge fines or cancel contracts if they find that farmers are harvesting seeds from their plants. Monsanto owns the rights to seeds.
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.
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"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?
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Things should not be alive if humans can't confine or use them for our capitalist purposes!
half of my succulents at home are from leaves that have fallen off in stores. sue me.
Theft of garbage. Sure, store owner, whatever.
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