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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m pretty sure itโ€™s only vandalism if you actually break stuff.

I'm not so sure, grafitti on a wall is legally vandalism, even if it's pretty, and it doesn't really break anything. But it can be argued to not look "right", and the same is true for tuning things upside down.

Iโ€™d recommend just being subtle and not spending hours going from shelf to shelf, flipping stuff over.

Yes that would probably annoy them, and they might ask people that do that to not show up again.
I don't want to piss them off so I can't shop there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Graffiti is only legally vandalism in Germany if it's not temporary, though. The relevant German law should be Sachbeschรคdigung (ยง303 StGB). In this case, specifically section 2:

Ebenso wird bestraft, wer unbefugt das Erscheinungsbild einer fremden Sache nicht nur unerheblich und nicht nur vorรผbergehend verรคndert.

which translates to

Anyone who changes the appearance of another person's property without authorisation, not only insignificantly and not only temporarily, is also punished.

If there aren't any other special laws or something (again, IANAL), this should also make flipping merchandise over legal as well, as long as you're not breaking anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Well I was just to my local supermarket, and I turned a couple Heinz ketchup, and a few bags of American peanuts.
Didn't see anything else turned, but maybe I can help start the trend here?