I went in to this new hydro store a while back, proper weird, about 4 staff members, sitting around and very chatty, asking what I'd got growing, how many plants, how "silly" it is that growers are paranoid "espeically when everyone knows what these shops are for"... Just freaked me right out, (especially as they seemed to know fuck all about weed and have no hisotry with it by thier own admission) obviously I said I was growing tomatoes and got out of there.
A friend of mine went in there and he got the same weird chatty stuff...
Now I'm probably a little lax on security from time to time; I don't mind talking fairly frankly in my usual hydro store, they've been there almost a decade and they're often smoking weed out the back. Also initially we both treated each other with due caution and it took a good few visits before I felt comfortable asking for advice without giving a fictional preamble about legumes or houseplants.
Even so, on your first visit to a new shop there's some stuff that just rings alarm bells.
One of my friends went in for the first time recently and bought some growing stuff... he was offered some free bud if he came back on a certain day...
Now if that's not suspicious as fuck I don't know what is!
He's actually planning on going back... idiot...
That said, I don't know if the police are allowed to set up that kind of sting, I'd have thought it'd be entrapment but either way I thought I'd put it out there for fellow UKers to get your opinions and warn you to be on your guard with new grow shops.
A friend of mine went in there and he got the same weird chatty stuff...
Now I'm probably a little lax on security from time to time; I don't mind talking fairly frankly in my usual hydro store, they've been there almost a decade and they're often smoking weed out the back. Also initially we both treated each other with due caution and it took a good few visits before I felt comfortable asking for advice without giving a fictional preamble about legumes or houseplants.
Even so, on your first visit to a new shop there's some stuff that just rings alarm bells.
One of my friends went in for the first time recently and bought some growing stuff... he was offered some free bud if he came back on a certain day...
Now if that's not suspicious as fuck I don't know what is!
He's actually planning on going back... idiot...
That said, I don't know if the police are allowed to set up that kind of sting, I'd have thought it'd be entrapment but either way I thought I'd put it out there for fellow UKers to get your opinions and warn you to be on your guard with new grow shops.