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Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage

December 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

At a Whole Foods in New York, Jen Armstrong and Ryan Watkins-Hughes stocked a shelf with cans carrying art-infused labels.

“At a Whole Foods in New York, Jen Armstrong and Ryan Watkins-Hughes stocked a shelf with cans carrying art-infused labels.”

NY Times, Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage:

“This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it’s also the season of spirited shopdropping.

Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.

Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian readings at book stores.”

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