Conspiracy At The Grocery Store

[taras]

People in Pennsylvania finding this note:

...inside things they buy at the shops.

In a pack of butter (this week)
In a box of crackers (9 months ago)
In a packet of Pocky (2 years ago)
More (3 years ago)

The text and layout of the notes varies slightly but is broadly the same message.

Reminds me of Francis E Dec's worldwide deadly communist gangster computer god, around corners trajectory of mind-control laser beams with parroting playboy scum on top (I'm paraphrasing but you get the idea).

edit: Here's a site with Dec's original notes, which I believe were pinned up at supermarkets etc in the 1970s/80s:
http://www.bentoandstarchky.com/dec/MRFRCrant.jpg
http://www.bentoandstarchky.com/dec/intro.htm

 

[catseye]

What weird abbreviations!

 

[Mythopoeika]

It's a very stream-of-consciousness way of linking together just about all conspiracy theories and packing them into a single page.
Clearly the work of an unhinged person.

 

[catseye]

Some very nice use of semi-colons though.

 

[Stormkhan]

No green ink though. -2 marks.

 

[Frideswide]

Found inside things? Might need to check that other contamination isn't happening.

 

[AnonyJ]

Reminds me of the notes (alledgedly) placed inside fast fashion clothes and other items made by prisoners undergoing forced labour in China. There have been a few over the years! Cue big stores/companies all rushing to deny they use suppliers who benefit from forced labour. For example:

https://www.businessinsider.com/workers-sos-notes-retail-items-tesco-zara-saks-2019-12?r=US&IR=T

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28018137

https://nypost.com/2017/05/01/woman-finds-note-from-chinese-prisoner-in-purse-she-bought-at-walmart/

https://www.businessinsider.com/kmart-shopper-finds-letter-from-china-2012-12?r=US&IR=T


As to the notes in the OP, I guess it'd be quite easy to fold the note into a tiny square and slip it into the edge of a box, under a plastic lid.

 

[kamalktk]

It's still ongoing, as our own @Sharon Hill reports:

Mysterious Schuylkill notes saga continues​

January 27, 2024

It’s been one month since a local northeastern PA news station publicized the story about what has now become known as the “Schuylkill notes”.

Schuylkill (pronounced “SKOO-kill”) is the name of the county around which the cryptic notes seem to be centered. But occurrences are still being reported throughout the Susquehanna Valley, north central PA, and even out to the western and eastern counties.

Attention to the story is growing​

The news station, “Eyewitness News” (WBRE/WYOU), hit the jackpot with this coverage. Not only did the mysterious notes continue to pop out of boxes and be pinned to leaves along walking trails, people became really interested in following the story.

A subreddit called r/SchuylkillNotes showed up back in September. Since then, 15,500 members watch the postings daily and speculate about the origin of the notes.

Commentary Continues:
https://sharonahill.com/mysterious-schuylkill-notes-saga-continues/

 

[catseye]

It's still ongoing, as our own @Sharon Hill reports:

Mysterious Schuylkill notes saga continues​

January 27, 2024

It’s been one month since a local northeastern PA news station publicized the story about what has now become known as the “Schuylkill notes”.

Schuylkill (pronounced “SKOO-kill”) is the name of the county around which the cryptic notes seem to be centered. But occurrences are still being reported throughout the Susquehanna Valley, north central PA, and even out to the western and eastern counties.

Attention to the story is growing​

The news station, “Eyewitness News” (WBRE/WYOU), hit the jackpot with this coverage. Not only did the mysterious notes continue to pop out of boxes and be pinned to leaves along walking trails, people became really interested in following the story.

A subreddit called r/SchuylkillNotes showed up back in September. Since then, 15,500 members watch the postings daily and speculate about the origin of the notes.

Commentary Continues:
https://sharonahill.com/mysterious-schuylkill-notes-saga-continues/

What's the 'mystery', though? How someone is managing to do it? Easily enough, someone who looks perfectly 'normal' is going around shops, picking stuff up and looking at it and slipping a note inside while they do so. And pinning notes to trails is easiest of all, especially if you go out early or late when nobody is about.

The content? Well, it's the stream of consciousness of someone who isn't mentally very well, that's all. There's no 'conspiracy' behind it. Probably best that shops keep someone monitoring their CCTV, and everyone else looks for a well dressed man (probably), with a dog, who appears perfectly straightforward in short conversations but very quickly degenerates into right-wing hate speech.

And I say 'with a dog' because then nobody would challenge why he was out on the trails.