• El_guapazo@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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.

  • Fades@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    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.

  • czardestructo@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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…

  • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    If I want to steal from you I will. You can try guilting me all you want but I just don’t care.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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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      11 days ago

      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.

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      11 days ago

      and people I meet

      I imagine you giving out small flowerpots with tiny succulents in them to surprised random people on the street and it made me chuckle.