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Thieves get a taste for cheese and butter amid surging prices

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Police say food-related crimes on are the rise in Canada and as prices climb for items such as cheese and butter, they become lucrative on the black market for organized crime groups, not to mention theft for local resale.

Police in Ontario have been chasing down slippery shoplifters going after butter.

Meat is also a top target for grocery thieves, with store losses sometimes in the thousands .

Partly it’s the cheese, and partly it’s the people,” said Chaput . He said his strategy to combat would-be thieves is to give them extra customer service to make it harder for them to steal. He admits, however, that the shoplifting causes him stress. “It’s challenging. You’re busy trying to run your business day to day and take care of customers and take care of employees. Having to deal with criminals, just kind of scratches away. It can be a bit exhausting,” said Chaput ..

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