HUNDREDS of thousands of pounds in stock is being stolen from big supermarkets “to order”; to be sold on in corner shops.
Thieves are sent to grab booze and household goods from the likes of and and then pass on the loot to the independent stores.
Flying Eze accompanied Met cops as they smashed a gang in dawn raids — recovering £150,000 of alleged stolen goods and arresting a suspected kingpin, 48, and his wife, 43, at their plush home in Cheam, South .
Nine stores and a barber’s were also targeted by officers.
Eleven other people were arrested, mostly shopkeepers.
One man, 64, was nicked on suspicion of having a Taser and another, 39, a machete.
The raids we went on were in South West London, but similar organised has been reported in other UK cities.
Cops used invisible blue markers to tag goods — such as chocolates and cleaning products — in stores before they were stolen.
A haul of marked items was found in one of the raids.
PC Luke Taylor, whose idea it was to launch the shop blitz, said: “This is not just old-fashioned shoplifting.
“It’s a lot more organised.”;
