{"id":85699,"date":"2026-02-28T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85699"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:53:00","slug":"the-ruthless-romanian-crime-gangs-behind-epidemic-of-chocolate-thefts-from-britains-high-st-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/28\/the-ruthless-romanian-crime-gangs-behind-epidemic-of-chocolate-thefts-from-britains-high-st-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"The ruthless Romanian crime gangs behind epidemic of chocolate thefts from Britain&#8217;s High St stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Xes4M.img?w=534&amp;h=425&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A chocolate thief in the West Midlands raids shelves, taking boxes of chocolates en masse\u00a0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The chocolate aisle of the Cambridgeshire supermarket looks more like a high-security prison than somewhere you&#8217;d go to buy a sweet treat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/the-ruthless-romanian-crime-gangs-behind-epidemic-of-chocolate-thefts-from-britain-s-high-st-stores\/ar-AA1Xeurm?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=69a2988f20844172bcee5164b95288b0&amp;ei=27\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The chocolate aisle of the Cambridgeshire supermarket looks more like a high-security prison than somewhere you&#8217;d go to buy a sweet treat&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Chocolate-theft.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85700,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85699\/revisions\/85700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}