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While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking

by aomix 1y ago

While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking. I bought a gallon.

kelipso 1y ago
I wonder if this is actual high trust or that there are security cameras everywhere.
- bombcar 1y ago
  If you've been to the rural USA you'd know it's just high-trust (and the middle of nowhere). They're pretty common for low-value things like corn and farm produce; but I've seen syrup and honey, too. There might be a camera but since there's usually no power, it'd have to be some sort of trail/game/deer cam. What would you do with the result besides some vigilante frontier justice? No cop anywhere but daytime children's TV is going to investigate the Case of the Stolen Syrup.
  - sometimes_all 1y ago
    We once went to Florida and saw some open orange farms. We wanted to buy some, but there was nobody in sight - we got very confused until we saw a box which said "$X a bag"; there was a sack of bags nearby. My mind was blown.
  - gentooflux 1y ago
    That's a matter of scale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_H...
  - antonvs 1y ago
    > No cop anywhere but daytime children's TV is going to investigate the Case of the Stolen Syrup. Or Japan apparently, according to some of the comments in this thread.
ElCapitanMarkla 1y ago
We have quite a few road side stalls like this around where I live in NZ, Honey, eggs, swedes are a common one. You hear of the odd theft from them every now and then but for the most part it seems to work well.
ahoka 1y ago
There are shops like that in Sweden and Germany, probably many other countries.
petcat 1y ago
I had the same experience in upstate NY. So many little boutique country stores with craft and art tables outside that just had venmo signs next to the crafts. My wife bought a few items and we were pleasantly surprised to see how many public purchases were made to that venmo account. And it wasn't super cheap junk/stuff either.

by aomix 1y ago

While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking. I bought a gallon.

kelipso 1y ago

I wonder if this is actual high trust or that there are security cameras everywhere.

bombcar 1y ago
If you've been to the rural USA you'd know it's just high-trust (and the middle of nowhere). They're pretty common for low-value things like corn and farm produce; but I've seen syrup and honey, too. There might be a camera but since there's usually no power, it'd have to be some sort of trail/game/deer cam. What would you do with the result besides some vigilante frontier justice? No cop anywhere but daytime children's TV is going to investigate the Case of the Stolen Syrup.
- sometimes_all 1y ago
  We once went to Florida and saw some open orange farms. We wanted to buy some, but there was nobody in sight - we got very confused until we saw a box which said "$X a bag"; there was a sack of bags nearby. My mind was blown.
- gentooflux 1y ago
  That's a matter of scale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_H...
- antonvs 1y ago
  > No cop anywhere but daytime children's TV is going to investigate the Case of the Stolen Syrup. Or Japan apparently, according to some of the comments in this thread.

ElCapitanMarkla 1y ago

We have quite a few road side stalls like this around where I live in NZ, Honey, eggs, swedes are a common one. You hear of the odd theft from them every now and then but for the most part it seems to work well.

ahoka 1y ago

There are shops like that in Sweden and Germany, probably many other countries.

petcat 1y ago

I had the same experience in upstate NY. So many little boutique country stores with craft and art tables outside that just had venmo signs next to the crafts. My wife bought a few items and we were pleasantly surprised to see how many public purchases were made to that venmo account. And it wasn't super cheap junk/stuff either.