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Shopdropping was probably the last kind of giving on most people’s minds as they shopped during the holiday season. Shopdropping, also known as droplifting, is the incredible act of reverse shoplifting: going into stores and putting things onto the shelves. Banksy is probably the best known shopdropper, famous for putting out his own subvertised versions of Paris Hilton’s CDs and hanging his subversive art in galleries.
Above: great ‘beginner’s guide to shopdropping’ including Banksy
Shopdroppers have their own reasons for doing what they do. Some are social and political culture jammers who want to raising awareness about consumerism or adding warnings to dangerous products. Others seek to promote their own product, such as an album left in a record store. Still others do it for their own amusement and artistic fulfillment without expectations of any kind of return.
Some shopdrop projects are individual endeavors while others are the work of highly organized groups, such as the Droplift Project. The Droplift Project takes found sound and turns it into an audio collage to create “new art, social commentary, parody and contemporary criticism.” Ryan Watkins-Hughes of ShopDropping.net adds his own labels to commercial products simply as a form of self-expression.
It might not surprise you to learn that reactions to shopdropping or droplifting vary as much as approaches to it and reasons for doing it. Some people find it harmless and amusing while others find it shocking and disturbing. Shopdroppers who are caught are variously freed by confused police or held on charges related to destruction of property or even fraud. Reactions, criticisms or other shopdropping thoughts?
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64 Comments
December 27th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Fabulous, if you ask me. A perfectly natural reaction to a culture that marginalizes so many artists and holds consumerism sacred. If people aren’t harmed, I don’t see any reason to consider shopdropping a problem. What shopdroppers are protesting is the problem!
December 27th, 2007 at 3:32 am
Interesting stuff.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:20 am
How do you define “harm”?
Would you consider stores (particularly large ones) who have to add staff to located, remove, and dispose of these items, harm? Their costs (and our costs) go up. The consumer (me and you) ends up paying the price.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:39 am
I would think that the people that have issue with this are concerned for customer/employee safety and are wary of law suits. Who is to say the products being placed on the shelves are not dangerous? Poisoned or tainted food products, explosives, computer viruses, etc.
While I agree that this is a novel idea, I would not want someone putting items of an unknown origin on my store shelves.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:02 am
If I opened up my grocery bag and found some stupid note like that in there, the first thing I’d do is wonder if some psycho had poisoned the food I had just bought. And it would piss me off to have to throw it away because some little brat thought she was being clever.
Its an interesting idea, but it doesnt serves anyone’s needs, except those of the selfish shopdropper who wants their message to be heard.
What makes you think that what you have to say is any more important than what the rest of the world has to say? Stand in line for your 15 minutes of fame like everyone else!
December 27th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Remember the Tylenol poisoning cases? They were shopdropped, in a manner of speaking. You can appreciate why it makes people nervous.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Jill, if you are going to blame a factor for the “plight” of artists, perhaps you should blame economics instead of culture. Artists often produce very little for the economy, except perhaps motivation for other more-productive members of society. Thus, they earn less money and power than you assume they should receive. If you’re a starving artist, it’s not because society conspires to impinge upon your human rights, but because capitalism illuminates the inefficacy of a large proportion of the population working as talented, motivated artists. Much like I cannot earn a living by keeping my friends and family entertained, motivated, and acting morally and ethically, sometimes, neither can an artist.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
This was, of course, expected (as it did) to produce a number of different reactions. When art goes into the public realm - be it graffiti, subvertising or shopdropping - it inevitably entertains and enlightens some while upsetting and worrying others. One could argue, as WebUrbanist has time and time again, that art that provokes discussion is often the best kind. It is interesting, though, that cult figures like Banksy seem to be forgiven their often intrusive and disruptive art while unknown artists who don’t have the same fame seem to be criticized for the same things.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Nick’s comment = brilliant
December 27th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Hell, I was doing this when I was a little kid — used to make up fake lables in macpaint and paste them on boxes and such in the grocery. My favorite had to be the year that Jeffery Dahmer got caught and I put ‘Dahmerville Brats’ (contains young white, dark and yellow meat) labels on around ten of the ‘Johnsonville Brats’ packages in the store.
December 27th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Leaving something harmful is a whole other story. There is nothing wrong with what is being as long as it doesn’t’ hurt someone and if it wasn’t done with the intent of doing so.
If you are that nervous, then stop buying products and make everything your own. The odds of someone shop dropping, and the odds of a angry employee adding something at the factory are more or less the same I would bet…
December 27th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
right?
December 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
It seems that if you have something good to say, just say it. Then the people that agree with you will both listen, and follow. This gorilla tactic can have the opposite effect than desired. You may make an enemy where one didn’t exist. You complain about ideas and beliefs being shoved in your face, then do the same to someone else. Hypocritical, don’t you think? Jesus didn’t use this tactic, and people are still following him today. In 2000 years, no one will know you or follow you. If what you have to say is so good, get on a soapbox and say it. Don’t be a coward and hide in anonymity! So brave, but so scared. You will not be someone to follow, your childish actions will be loathed.
If you choose to be an artist, you made the choice. That’s the beautiful thing about us who can see the system and still get around it. Rather than whining about your song, what else do you do all day long? Nothing,… well that’s why you are where you are. If you only want the fame and fortune, then the only difference between you and them, is they got paid, and you didn’t. Sounds like a bunch of whining to me. And to take from Nick, you can’t expect to be fed and clothed, just because you make your family and friends happy. I do it for free, and I am all the better for it.
This is what your brilliant Idea can lead to…
http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/p.....amp;sflg=1
Explain who is the selfish one. What did this little girl do to deserve this on Christmas? Some self-righteous a-hole ruined this girl’s holiday, and parent’s are fuming. Thank you for bringing enlightenment into my life. Now give me what the f- I paid for.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Oh! …because by one single action you are able to know everything about someone…you are foolish.
Just because someone does ONE thing does not mean that they are instantly assigned swith the million attributes YOU assign to them. Did your so called Jesus stereotype people?
Plus, people who do this could be doing it, not looking for a response, but for the mere fact that they want to. The best part…no matter you flawed pointless opinions…you will never be able to stop them.
So go ahead and think you KNOW just how these people are…when in fact they are most likely all different you don’t’ have a single correct idea at all…
You typed “Don’t be a coward and hide in anonymity!” behind the name “Counterpoint” with no email address….hypocrite?
December 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Re Brian: You’re a douchebag. Firstly, stores will not hire more individuals to find a few shopdrops, they’ll just put more work onto their existing staff. Costs do not increase. Second, if the store does end up hiring more people (droplifting becomes about 1,000,000x more popular among the public) they will simply pay everyone less. Third, if anything, the prices of items may increase without any real overhead incurred by the retailer and shopdropping would be scapegoated while the retailer lines his pockets.
Have no sympathy for the big-boxes, no sympathy for most jackass ultra-capitalist “entrepreneurs”.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
I have to agree with Not Brian. I work in a retail establishment and due to, well, douchebaggery, new hires don’t occur for REAL work that NEEDS to be done now. Our prices increase, our profitability increases, our workload increases but no raises come down the pipe and no additional help is sent in. If you think a store is going to hire more staff to deal with this phenomena then you’re obviously unfamiliar with the way retail works.
Easy formula: You hire just enough people to do about 50-75% of the work well and put 100% of it on them, pay them exactly what’s required to keep them from quitting and you stay with this trend through the temporary rise in profit you will see WELL into the inevitable sharp decline due to poor customer service, when everything is in the shitter then you do a round of payraises and hiring, but ONLY enough to bring morale up to just above the suicide threshold and watch profits rise again.
December 28th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
It simply amuse me as many other inventive things. I adore people and things’ shaking, life’s boring without fantasy…
December 29th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I thinks it’s a great form of self expression and raising awareness of a particular consumer product. Pity, I haven’t seen one droplifting product in my entire life
December 31st, 2007 at 11:02 am
Hahah, Floyd… you rule!
January 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Droplifting is very controversial, I think.
People might be amused to create art in form of customized labels, but the customers who want a specific product might be very disappointed if they do not find the advertised value after they purchase the drop-lifted product.
It is some sort of fun anyway !
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Unamused. Middle class artiste pretending to be a revolutionary, gee thats never happened before.
January 6th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Dumb…
Last I checked, defacing someone else’s property or tampering was a crime.
Talk about shop dropping … Between September 29 and October 1, 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol that was poisoned with cyanide. Police believed that someone had bought or stolen the medication from a store, tampered with it, and put it back on store shelves.
Hence, the safety sealed bottles of today.
January 20th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Perhaps said artist is not of the egotistic variety. They don’t want conventional stardom. Perhaps it is out of a love for humanity such that it pains them to see people working long hours to buy an Ipod. An expensive toy that is designed to break within two years so you have to buy a new one. Yes, perhaps this emotion is misguided, only causing more inconvenience for those involved, but isn’t it something that people do care enough to do these things anonymously. They obviously spend their own time and money in hopes of changing something. The status quo in this country is pitiful. I already see myself being pushed into a corner thanks to student loans, high rent, and the cost of health care. Again, as many of you see it, and I might agree, some of these tactics are misguided, but I think the accusations of selfishness or egotism are far from the truth.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Well, there seems to be different types of shopdropping. There is the type that is used to make people aware of something, giving a message of your opinion. This may be a crime or just a distructive way of making enimies, but still getting your message to those who care. Same as if it’s just a fun and amusing way to spend your time.
The best way of using shopdropping I think is to share your artwork. Digital forms like DVDs and CDs may not be the best idea (people may suspect viruses) but art in the form of printed or painted pieces, maybe if put with other pieces with a “FREE” sign on it, perhaps a note explaining your purpose for putting it there (to get your work known). This would be a harmless and (in my opinion) crimeless way to advertise your work, as long as you explain your purpose. Also you could put your website address on that explanation note, even more advertising so they can see the rest of your work.
It’s all in how you use it I guess. And as long as you have good intentions and make those intentions known, i see no reason why anyone should get angry.
February 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
hi everyone i am the one who made the shop drop film i would just like to make a few things clear:
i dont harm the food i can understand why you may be a bit parnoid but if you find an egg box with a message in it think carefully about how the hell someone could posion an egg without the shell breaking and as for the tins well they are clearly labled so if you dont want to buy it you dont have to also if you think about it say someone was trying to posin food surley it would be stupid to make the tin stand out they want it to blend in wouldnt they?
as for shops having to employ more people to deal with shop dropping, well i dont think that is the case at all and even if it was the fact that it would be increasing job oppertuinty is a good thing isnt it?
i think that counterpoint comparing me to jesus is one of the funniest things i have ever heard i dont care if im not remebered in 2000 years time im living for the moment, the here and now as for me being a coward well im not a coward and im not brave either im just me and the reason i dont put my name on the tins is because its not about who i am its about what the shop dropped thing is and how it makes the person who finds it feel (hopefully happy) im not trying to get lots if recognition im just trying to make people happy thats all
“Rather than whining about your song, what else do you do all day long? Nothing,… well that’s why you are where you are.”
im not sure what song it is that your talking about but i do think its rather funny you have made an assumtion about me which is competely inaccurate its not like i consider shop dropping my job i work im going to uni soon and im completely happy ‘where i am’
and as for the little girl at christmas well that has nothing to do with shop dropping they took the ipod from the package and kept it and thats stealing, and i dont ‘deface other peoples property’ i buy it take it home relabe it and then put it back and there are no laws about defacing your own property
youknow im not a brat im not sure what made you think i was i dont think what i have to say is more important (which is why i try to encoage other people to shop drop) im just not waiting to be ask im just saying what i think not all the messages are even politcal some of them are completely random and say things like ‘biting people is wrong’ because i think it would be funny to go into tesco or somewhere and see something like that on a tin and as for the fame as i said thats not why im doing it
and finally to all the people who have left nice comment THANK YOU YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY you have no idea how happy it makes me feel having people say nice things about my film what you hav said has out weighed the bad things people have had to say so again THANK YOU
February 28th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Classic textbook example of passive-aggressive behavior.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Just found this site, and i think it’s very interesting. We have to walk round having shit advertisments in our face - apparently if you buy a certain coldsore cream you will get your life back to normal, PATHETIC!!! I don’t want to be reading all this crap every time i leave the house, or just turn the TV on. So WHY can’t an artist (or whoever) have a bit of fun with droplifting. These people aren’t shoving their ideas in people faces like the advertisers…. so it is’nt HYPOCRITICAL!!! It’s called being subversive! Counterpoint and Moondancer need to get on with their own life and let us that aren’t harming anyone, only pointing out what a crap consumerist world we live in, get on with ours. Jill has a point, so Nick what are you on about. Connie, i live in England, and i’m steadily becoming worried about the state of your country. I may be wrong, but i bet you live in the United States of Paranoia - i mean America - don’t let the media create your every opinion.
And finally… Wonderland, nice one, keep it up. In 2000 years you may not be remembered, but at least people will remember you in 10 minutes rather than…. oh, what’s his name?
June 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Some rebuttals:
The Tylonol comparison - no one is taking products off the shelf, tampering with them, then re-shelving them in the SAME package. This argument lacks any relevance to the practices of the artists mentioned in this article.
Destruction of property - these artists are not removing or defacing existing merchandise… they are PURCHASING said merchandise, altering it’s packaging, and then re-shelving it. No one is loosing money except for the artist.
Consumer fear of tampering - A smart consumer does not put their hands over their eyes and blindly put items into their cart. For example, when you come across a dented can of soup (quite common), you usually push it aside and take the undamaged can behind it. The content is the same, yet the package is what spurred you to choose the undamaged one. Similarly, if you come across an unfamiliar, strangely packaged item in the midst of normal ones, chances are you’ll opt to take the normal one.
Retail environment economics - The “cost” of dealing with droplifting is zero, nil, nada. It may mean an extra cubic foot of space in the dumpster, that is all. No cost is transferred to the consumer, and the “extra work” some claim it causes is insignificant compared to, say, a clean-up on aisle 5.
Is it art? - If there is a debate as to whether something is art or not… then it is art.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Wonderland: take an English/grammar class for god’s sake. You have some of the biggest run on sentences I’ve ever seen in my entire life. No one is going to take you seriously if you sound like an angsty teenager and type like you are sending a text message.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
sorry.. this is sooo boring :P - - GET A LIFE ! :P
June 17th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Damn. So many assumptions about artists by prejudiced people, so little time.
I feel for anyone who takes offense at the differences in others’ ways of life and therefore needs to defend their own way of life by voicing judgmental assumptions about people they don’t even know.
To any of you who seem bitter that artists don’t care about the same things you do, never forget that some of us have no need for the money with which we can buy entertainment or participation in materialistic social scenes because we do not need to seek out what is already within us. You don’t have to be an artist to be inspired.
Besides, what ground is there for criticizing artists so generally when art, in visual and musical forms, is a multi-billion dollar industry for one, but more than that, art in all its forms is part of the very driving force behind civilization itself - from Leonardo Da Vinci, the quintessential Renaissance man; Emily Dickinson, whose poetry was found and fame gained only after her death; to Bo Diddley, one of the best bluesmen of the 20th century, who was plagiarized and outright ripped-off again and again, but he was better than his parasites.
I give credit to any artist who tries. Some things are productive within, rather than in a material way. It’s silly that some judge artists by their productivity in a society that is rampantly encouraged to be wasteful consumers. The materialistic nature of capitalism is exactly why they generalize that artists are not productive. Can’t see the forest for the trees. Like most ideas, capitalism serves us better as a tool rather than a vision of reality itself. Otherwise, you get people for whom fulfilled desires and even greed are a measure of social and economic merit.
In mentality and in soul, some of us live in a world that cannot be experienced by paying an entrance fee.
Wonderland: I take you seriously despite your grammar. Actions speak louder than words.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Sometimes what people try to pass off as art is really just stupid crap. That’s exactly what this is - stupid hipster crap. Oh, except that someone has created a cute little buzzword for it and called it “shopdropping.” The rest of us grew out of lame childish “hurf durf” pranks years ago.
Yawn.
“adding warnings to dangerous products” Oh great, like a bunch of 9/11 theory lunatics. Just what we need.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Bob is a gay dude. Go back to watching fox news and taking your prozac. (=
June 18th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Is this similar to the people who sprinkle marijuana seeds everywhere in protest to the immoral, unjust, and insane laws against this beneficial weed?
If marijuana grew everywhere, they could never enforce it.
Some bright mind should somehow cross Kudzu with Marijuana thus making an invasive vine with THC which would grow everywhere and would be impossible to get rid of. Maybe then the war against marijuana (in other words, big governments protecting big Pharma companies) and the non-violent pot smoker would end. Plus, you would be famous for eternity. Something to consider over your next pipe load.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Wow, way to box me in! “Do you think shopdropping is art or a nuisance?” Well, what if I don’t want to conform to the only two options you’ve given me. What if I want to say a different answer? People who claim to be nonconformists, are really just conforming to a slightly different model. The fact that everyone who thinks shopdropping is silly, or likewise, in these comments is being insulted just proves it. You say you are subversive, yet you have just as little respect for those who have a different opinion than you do, as “normal” people do. You try to oppress people who disagree with you by saying they are “gay” and such.
I respect your art, if that’s what you want to do to express yourself, but don’t tell me I better be cool about it and think you’re cool for doing it or else you’re going to call me names or decide I must be some lame old person. If you were true artists you wouldn’t care what people think. You wouldn’t worry so much about outing people who don’t agree with you. You would just try to send your message.
Oh, and by the way, it’s dead easy to poison (yes, that’s how you really spell it) an egg without cracking it.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:32 am
It’s not that I was trying to boxing people in, but when you are interviewing people, who you have just stopped on the street, about a subject they have only just heard about its better not to be too vaugue. Of corse there are a million other answers to what shop dropping is and I wouldn’t have discreditied any of them because they weren’t the options I gave.
I am likeing the weed idea, though not sure how easy it would be.
Bob you are entitled to your opinion but it’s not a prank, a prank is a trick and there isn’t really any deception involved. It’s just a way for people to express themselves.
Thanks to Staked Plains Texan and little iggy inparticular for your nice comments.
P.S. I will put my hands up and admit the grammer in my last message was terrible (I have tried harder on this message), but I won’t apoliges for my bad spelling becuase I’m dyslexic and can’t help it. But I do think focusing on my spelling and language is sort of missing the point. If you want to critise me I’d rather it was because you disagree with what I am saying than the bad spelling and grammer I use to say it.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Art is what it is, its subject to interpretation, just like advertising, television, literature etc… Just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean you have to insult it. The mere fact that you lower yourself to make petty insults at people’s attempts at creativity shows that you have no validity to make judgements in the first place. Wonderland makes a good point, who is going to buy packaging at a grocery store that has so obviously been tampered with? If there was a need to be paranoid, I would only see it if the original packaging wasn’t altered. Nobody is forcing you to purchase these products, hell you don’t even have to look at them if you are so disgusted with the idea, so honestly, where is the harm? I personally am not overwhelled with awe about this idea, but it doesn’t mean I’m about to go around and get all worked up and spout off insults and paranoid conspirocy theories about “said” artist who I don’t know personally and thus have no grounds to make such assumptions.
To attack one’s grammer and spelling is just tacky, and I get so sick of seeing it on message boards, you obviously understood the context of the comment, so what does it matter if he has a few run-on sentences or spelling errors? We’re all human here, we’re all subject to making mistakes, so quit being petty.
We should encourage harmless creativity, its what inspires new ways of thinking, breaks people aways from the tediousness of everyday life. As I said before, harmless art is also ignorable art, you don’t like it, look away. Insulting it merely brings more focus to the subject. Controversy is always going to be more noticable then that which sticks to societal norms, so if you are against this idea, the best you can do is ignore it.
That being said, without all those so-called “hipsters” many artistic revolutions and advancements in film, literature, advertising etc.. would have never taken place. Somebody had to try it in the first place, sometimes it fails and fades aways, other times it leads something lasting and wonderful. Somehow I don’t see this as changing the world (no offense Wonderland) but I don’t see it as detrimental either.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Jeez, these people are like terrorists or something, be afraid, they’re out to poison your eggs and don’t let those 9/11 theorists say otherwise! Only blind consumerism (don’t read the label, all products are totally safe and wholesome - trust your benevolent lords and masters) can save us all. God Market says all artists deserve to starve, they’re not paying enough tax to support Homeland Security, they’re pretty much exposing YOUR CHILDREN to anthrax and AIDS. Stay tuned to Fox news for your latest color-coded terror threat update!!!
Sheesh…. I hope to god the people posting this utter garbage - ringfencing this artist with murderers, thieves and what have you, and let’s not let any topic go by without dragging up 9/11 - don’t have the vote, or come November planet Earth is doomed.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:38 am
I sometimes buy things that I no longer need, and probably don’t have a receipt for. Rather than throwing them away, I just take them back to the store and put them back on the shelves. I’m not making a statement, just giving the supermarket a second chance to sell the same item.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Nick’s comment == nonsense.
Explain the great utilitarian value of the Pet Rock. Or of the millions of other useless consumer gadgets, the dissemination of which seems to dominate our “productive” members of society. Where’s the great productive efficiency of four Hummers in the garage and two summer homes in the Hamptons and Vail?
The problem is that our capitalist economy values garbage, and material excess, and not art. You can’t blame the artists for this. A money-driven economy has no place for even the simplest (non-monetary, non-material) pleasures of life. It does however have lots of place for attempting to destroy any activity or object that doesn’t have a dollar sign attached to it.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 am
I understand that people are annoyed that art doesnt have a much higher role in society. I also understand that people are fed up with being marginalized by society. But what I dont understand is the attempted corruption of consumer safety. I am serious. I remember the incident with the poisoned aspirin. Id rather not die for this kind of work. People already have trouble with tainted beef, tomatoes, blood etc. Consumer safety shouldnt be sacrificed for a few attention seeking artists,
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
It really sucks to be the college kid making $7.50 an hour who gets to spend an extra 30 minutes of a closing shift cleaning up after this type of self-pretentious asshole instead of going home to study or rest.
You want to make a statement? Get a job and buy a canvas.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Concerned - did you even read the article? They aren’t tampering with the food, and even if it was being tampered with, who the hell would advertise it so boldy? Messing with the labels almost gaurantees fingerprints on the can. If somebody was out to poison us, I imagine they would want to be as indescrete as possible. Why is everybody so bloody paranoid these days? Oh my God, some pyscho poisoned aspirin once a while back!!! That must mean everybody is out to get us these days! Grow your own food and raise your own livestock if your so freaked out!
Joel - quit whining and get a different job if you hate yours so much. Just because somebody feels like making a statement in their own unique way doesn’t make them pretencious. You don’t agree with it? Fine, you don’t have to, but don’t label people you don’t know. In my opinion, getting a job and painting on some canvas is quite the opposite of “making a statement” the only statement that makes is “I’m boring and like to follow the norm cause thats what society says I should do.” I don’t particulary think shopdropping is ground-breaking genuis, but at the least the artist is thinking outside the box and doing his own individual thing rather than listening to a bunch of stuffy people bitch and complain about how creativity inconveniences their precious boring lives.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I’ve done it, for fun, and to share what I have. Funny thing is, I get so nervous about dropping something I get all sweaty and shaky - even worse (I imagine) than what I would be like if I was lifting!
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July 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Does anyone else remember those commercials for the in-store brands of cereal. They would have this guy that was doing a crouching walk down the cereal isle as he explained that the in-store brands, which are located on the lower shelves, are just as good as the ones on the upper shelves.
That was the first thing I thought of when I read the title about shop-dropping. I coudln’t justify using shop dropping as a marketing technique though, because it really seems disingenuous.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:12 am
A1 Medical Supplies:- forgive me if i sound stupid but i don’t see why you need to justify shopdropping as a marketing technique - wether being “disingenious” or ingenious. I don’t think people who do shopdropping are claiming that they are doing anything profound, they are just having a bit of fun. If you don’t like what they do - for whatever reason - avoid making ignorant comments.
When you say it reminds you of the cereal advert you are clearly taking shopdropping in the wrong context.
Forgive me for being rude, but i’m sick of people with there ignorant-armchair-opinions. After all an opinion is only a viewpoint, one of many possible answers to a scenario, and no where near fact…
November 28th, 2008 at 6:13 am
see this shop droping is sooooo easy and great reuslts.
but i like to gointo small stores late at night like (WALMART) and just rape the clerk on duty and ake what i want after i bashed their brains out with a maglight
try it… rape man or woman fat or small i call it the Rape Take
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
*laughs* I found this entire thing hilarious. I do something similar, although not with products - I write messages onto post-it notes and stick ‘em all over public property in the hope to brighten someone’s day. Wouldn’t call it an art form, but I’d love to see it erupt as some new underground anti-movement.
The people paranoid about things being poisoned should take to home-growing their own food instead.
However, I do agree with others on the switching labels. It’s one thing to change a label and make it clear that it’s been drop-lifted. It’s another thing to switch, say, the labels on a can of baked beans and a can of kidney beans. It could cause someone to have a severe allergic reaction or something.
Finally, no; I - personally - don’t think drop-lifting can be called art. However, people hang washing lines from ceilings and leave broken light bulbs all over the floor in galleries and call it art too, so I suppose I’m in no place to judge.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
By the way. Could an editor or a moderator or something please teach that Corey guy a lesson? That’s a disgusting comment to leave, and I have no idea how to flag or report it.
Sicko.
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