That's not a soup can, it's a political statement!

Shopping 'ꀘtill you drop is, like, so over. Consumers with time on their hands and anarchy in their hearts prefer shopdropping, or reverse shoplifting, which entails adding bogus products or altering goods to make political statements. (Or, failing that, to mess with people's minds.)

Shopping 'ꀘtill you drop is, like, so over. Consumers with time on their hands and anarchy in their hearts prefer shopdropping, or reverse shoplifting, which entails adding bogus products or altering goods to make political statements. (Or, failing that, to mess with people's minds.)

Shopping â'ꂬ˜till you drop is, like, so over. Consumers with time on their hands and anarchy in their hearts prefer shopdropping, or reverse shoplifting, which entails adding bogus products or altering goods to make political statements. (Or, failing that, to mess with people's minds.)

A recent New York Times piece on this phenom claims that shopdroppers in some Portland bookstores like to surreptitiously move religious books and magazines to sci-fi shelves.

Probably no truth to the rumor that Krispy Kreme coupons are being slipped into the gluten-free desserts aisle at the Whole Foods Market in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood.

  

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