Reverse Shoplifting

From Reveries today, Shop Dropping: the emerging trend of substituting hand-made goods on supermarket shelves in place of the original merchandise. There's no theft going on here, the substituters are buying from the store, then replacing the item later, sometimes even with the original barcode and tags attached.

Maybe I'm a little bit too left brain, or maybe there's no specific agenda behind it, but I'm in the "Huh?" camp on this one. Trying to figure it out I'm reminded of Bob Dylan in No Direction Home. He seemed to get a kick out the fact that people would spend years trying to figure out exactly what he meant by every word, but never seemed to give it too much thought himself, he just wrote.

An interesting read, and you can find more information at shopdropping.net.