Purse-snatcher targeting unattended shopping carts at Triad grocery stores

Greensboro Crimestoppers

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — When you're shopping at the grocery store, you're focusing on what's going in your cart. But you may forget to make sure no one is taking something out of it.

It happened to a Guilford County woman at the Whitsett Food Lion, according to a Guilford County Sheriff's Office incident report.

The woman said she left her purse in her cart and turned around to grab something off a shelf. When she turned around, her purse was gone.

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According to Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers, she isn't the only one whose purse has been taken.

Law enforcement said in a Facebook post that the same woman stole purses from shopping carts in grocery stores in Guilford and Alamance Counties. 

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