I stayed at a hotel a while ago that left a little plushie on the bed when I checked in. It was a generic wolf plushie, kinda scratchy, not especially high quality, with a goofy little detective hat with a pineapple pattern (the hotel was called Stay Pineapple) sewn onto its head.

It said on the tag that if you took the plushie home with you they'd add $35 or something to your tab when you checked out. That's the manipulative capitalism part. They didn't have the plushies in a little gift shop -- I almost certainly wouldn't have bought it if they had -- they put it on my bed so I'd already have picked it up and hugged it and stuff and have to "leave it behind".

I very much feel the sentiment in this tweet.

It's not even that good of a plushie. Why did I take it home?