‘We are all eating’: Inside California’s secret industry that props up mass shoplifting

OAKLAND — For two days, investigators parked their unmarked car outside a nondescript parking lot behind an Oakland liquor store, across the street from a church and watched.

They saw the same thing over and over: A car would pull up, and someone inside would exit with a jumbo-sized garbage bag that appeared full and heavy. A hand-to-hand transaction would occur and the vehicle would pull off, soon to be replaced by another, authorities said.

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