The suspects have escaped on foot, he said. Like the robberies in Long Beach and Culver City, Hayes said, the hits in Los Angeles also occurred in the evening. Police have not made arrests in any of the cases. In Culver City, Vickrey said, detectives had to seek surveillance footage from nearby businesses because the Trader Joe’s store didn’t have any. “Unfortunately, Trader Joe’s does not have security cameras,” Vickrey said, referring to the Culver City locations. Vickrey’s detectives encountered a similar issue last year, when a Trader Joe’s on Slauson Avenue was robbed.

No security footage was available, and that case is still under investigation.