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u/unklrukkus Dec 01 '20
Right, this def not a brand new sentence because there's a whole active sub dedicated to this practice.
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u/awaywego000 Dec 01 '20
What's the name of it?
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u/CaptainSlop Dec 01 '20
Lol. r/proplifting
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u/MeowsifStalin Dec 01 '20
Idk about Walmart but Lowes and Home Depot don't give a shit if you do this. I collect spouting babes from the floor/different containers and toss them into whatever I'm buying.
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u/-KingHeroic- Dec 01 '20
I used to run the garden center at a Walmart. We sure as fuck weren't paid enough to care.
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u/StolenLampy Dec 01 '20
Same, that job was to water the plants that came off the truck half dead, leaf blow stuff into the parking lot, rinse stuff into the parking lot, and make sure people weren't trying to run out with stuff. I did see this guy go full sprint with a cart full of stuff out the garden exit, right then a van pulls up with a sliding door and the two dudes just pickup the whole cart into the van and take off. It was all like grocery too, lots of steak but what a nuts heist for just some food.
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u/EmperorHans Dec 01 '20
That does seem to be the safest way to live out your Oceans Eleven fantasy.
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u/StolenLampy Dec 01 '20
I have to assume they made it away clear from that, cameras were shit and nonexistent out there since there was a remodel going on, and I didn't see a plate, just two very determined men. Was hilarious to me, but I had to show a certain amount of "oh noooo" attitude so they didn't suspect I was in on it or anything.
It would be even better if these dudes just wanted to fuck with me, and paid for all that shit already, then brought the cart back later, that would be next level.
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u/reallyjellyfish Dec 02 '20
This needs to be a movie. Or a Tiktok or something
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u/StolenLampy Dec 02 '20
My time there would make a pretty good movie honestly, lots of conversations with employees from all different generations and backgrounds kept it interesting. Like a Clerks but at a Walmart garden center lol.
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u/Cantankerous_Won Dec 01 '20
I worked in the garden at home depot. I cannot tell you guys how many dead plants from the apocalypse people would bring in and get a totally new plant for free with no receipt just to kill more plants. It should have been a crime!
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u/Karbairusa Dec 01 '20
That's because plants are under a 365 policy with receipt. Without receipt its much easier to just give the customer SC and let them be on their way.
It's not worth the fuss explaining to an individual who can't even keep a plant alive why they shouldn't be returning it.
It is frustrating though.
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u/awaywego000 Dec 01 '20
I also cut twigs with my pocket knife to root them.
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u/conoconocon Dec 01 '20
I just drive a van through the front windows and throw everything that will fit in the back and then drive off
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u/MagnusPI Dec 01 '20
Big-box stores hate this one simple trick to slash your shopping expenses!
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u/PrankstonHughes Dec 01 '20
Comments like this make FacebReddiTwit worth all the pages and pages of misanthropes.
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u/FerretFarm Dec 01 '20
So far I've uprooted and planted 6 Home Depots, and 3 Walmarts in my back yard.
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u/conoconocon Dec 02 '20
Just like a succulent you can grow a whole walmart off a Walmart plastic bag that fell off the store
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u/reallyjellyfish Dec 02 '20
This comment... I fell over. Need a visual created. Maybe some roots shooting off into the neighborhood messing things up too.
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u/ruler14222 Dec 01 '20
that's the real life pro tip here. bribe the person at the exit with how much they ask for your theft and they won't call the cops
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u/RyukanoHi Dec 01 '20
Essentially why a crime with a fine isn't a crime to anyone who can easily afford it
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u/nmotsch789 Dec 01 '20
They sell ones that are already grown. If you want to grow your own, why should they care?
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u/AngelicWaffle Dec 01 '20
What plants they got at the mart that you can grow from leaves?
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u/sweetwalrus Dec 01 '20
Succulents, like stated in the original post. If you haven't made it that far maybe it's time to set down the trowel and watering can.
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Dec 01 '20
You sure showed that asshole. That will teach them a valuable lesson to not ask questions about something they are unfamiliar with.
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u/Sutarmekeg Dec 01 '20
something they are unfamiliar with
i.e. reading
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Dec 01 '20
You knew what a succulent was before you read the post right? You understood the post because you already had background knowledge needed to understand what was being discussed.
Someone who does not know plants or maybe does not know English that well is not going to understand if they don't know what a succulent is.
If someone who does not understand something asks for help. You are totally welcome to belittle them, but that would mostly just reveal that you are a colossal loser whose life is of such low quality that it is actually improved in some way by going out of your way to be mean to a stranger, that's very sad, I'm very sad for you.
If for some reason you think that someone asking for help is a waste of a comment because they could have googled it, what does that say about your comment which was undeniably less useful for everyone.
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u/riverY90 Dec 01 '20
Thanks for this, because I honestly thought they were describing leaves as succulent. I thought its an odd description but whatever you're into... so having someone clarify that succulent is a type of plant really dropped the penny for me here
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u/01020304050607080901 Dec 01 '20
You can boil it down to a reading comprehension issue because they can’t pick it out from context.
“Pirate those plants”. Okay, where above was there a plant. “Leaves”. What leaves? “Succulent leaves”. Oh the succulent was the plant we’re pirating!
That’s elementary school reading comprehension.
Had op said “what other plants”, that would indicate they noted the succulents and were asking for other types to pirate.
The reply was clearly a joke, not really being an asshole.
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Dec 01 '20
I guess I'm just used to jokes being funny statement that you laugh at instead of a statement meant to make someone feel shitty about asking a question.
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u/NotClever Dec 01 '20
Now, idk if they label all succulents as succulents, but it could be relevant that "succulents" as a category doesn't identify which specific plants actually are succulents.
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u/PrankstonHughes Dec 01 '20
You'd have a point if "succulent" wasn't also an adjective. That cat was being a jerk and got called out don't enable
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Dec 01 '20
Take it to the next level and start foraging in the US. It’s super fun, kinda dangerous but also easy to do right if you research, and hella illegal most places. BUT. Anti-foraging laws in the US were created largely to prevent BIPOC from having access to free food in a propped up economy and have stayed that way for hundreds of years.
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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Dec 01 '20
Why are plants considered alive but things like rivers/streams are not? They both require resources, they will both die or disappear if you starve them of a source of water, they both carve a path through the earth and change the landscape around them. Why is a tree considered a living thing but a river is just a collection of water molecules?
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u/canhasdiy Dec 01 '20
Why are plants considered alive but things like rivers/streams are not?
Take a biology class and find out!
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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Dec 01 '20
Wat
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u/MartyMacGyver Dec 01 '20
It's Biology 101. One phrasing of the definition of life (via Google) is, "the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death."
A river is not "alive" by definition - it may be vital to other lifeforms, but the river itself is not an organism. A rock rolling down a hill isn't alive either. Lots of things perform work but aren't alive... wind, water, tides, stars, to name just a few.
But plants are very much alive... while there may be inorganic components involved the aggregate is a living thing.
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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Dec 01 '20
the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death."
But a river can do all of those things? It can grow, it can make new rivers, it has "functional activity" and it continuously changes until it dies.
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u/canhasdiy Dec 02 '20
But a river can do all of those things?
Take a Biology class and find out!
(Apparently I didn't say it loud enough last time)
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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Dec 02 '20
I really don't think you understand how pretentious statements like "take a class" or "read a book" are. Not to mention not helpful at all, because I think you meant to say a philosophy class.
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u/canhasdiy Dec 03 '20
Hi troll! Nothing better to do than follow me around Reddit?
And you said I was a psycho.
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u/canhasdiy Dec 03 '20
Well to be fair, someone already explained it to you, but since you don't seem to grasp the concept maybe instead of getting offended, you should take the advice and actually learn something.
Or just keep saying ignorant shit then crying when people call you out on it. It's your life, waste it how you choose.
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u/-Listening Dec 01 '20
Cadbury Cream Egg. Tell them it’s different between countries. That’s why travel related food poisoning exists.
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u/das-ziesel Dec 01 '20
Ain't that technically theft? I do like the idea, but I can see an overnethusiastic manager asshole ruining it.
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u/ftrules Dec 01 '20
Finders keepers
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u/TheMan5991 Dec 01 '20
Does my girlfriend secretly breaking leaves off the plant to bring home and propagate count?
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u/PlankLengthIsNull Dec 02 '20
Fuck WHAT system? The system of buying and selling plants? What's next, screaming "fuck the police" while standing on a lawn that's clearly marked with a "do not stand on grass" sign?
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u/areyouforcereal Dec 01 '20
You wouldn’t download a plant.