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[+] 121 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [+] -33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Imagine going to the hardware store and someone calls it a fucking "boutique".

    No one ever did that, they're talking about a garden center you know where you get plants a hardware store is where you get bits of wood, some spare drain pipe and fork handles.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah. Also I explained it in another comment, but in my country there's usually two types of places where you can get flowers. Large flower or hardware stores for one, but then the rest are tiny oases of beauty where the owner is also the person selling you the flowers, and have their own handcrafted items for decoration and/or sale, like vases, baskets, etc.

    That's like the farthest thing from a hardware store, even if hardware stores do indeed also sell flowers. But I guess there are places in the world where beautiful small family businesses don't exist so all you get is Walmart and Ace Hardware and then you think all businesses are giant faceless corporations.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, we have those in the US too. Not sure why that other commenter seems to think Ace Hardware is the smallest business that sells plants, there are plenty of small nurseries in every state.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe they just live in a really bleak and lifeless small town or something and don't really explore to find the cool places.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or a large city... I think you're actually more likely to find these stores in rural areas.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    With mixed usage zoning, large cities can be really great for these actually.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm not saying that they wouldn't be allowed in cities, just that in my experience they're more likely to be found in rural areas. When I look at nurseries in and around the closest major city, most are in the outskirts of the city where land is a lot cheaper, rather than the built-up urban areas.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What Ace hardware? We don't have those in my country.

    There's exactly two types of flower stores I see around here. The gigantic chains where everything is sterile and the tiny boutiques where either the owner is the only employee, or maybe they have like 1-2 extra employees so they can stay open more than 5x8 and actually take vacations. And yeah, some hardware stores also have flowers, but I'd categorize those together with the former.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    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

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