Women Steal $600 Of Gouda And Blue Cheese Wheels From Oregon Whole Foods

Two women stole about $600 worth of gourmet cheese from a Bend, Oregon Whole Foods by simply asking for a box and walking out of the store. Their bounty included a $300 wheel of nine-month aged Gouda, and two wheels of blue cheese worth $270.

It seems almost too easy. The women walk into the store, pick up the Gouda wheel and ask for a box, which an employee provides. They box up the wheel, snatch two wheels of blue cheese, one walks to the register and the other leaves with the dairy.

Despite being caught on camera, the women are still at large, though police are investigating leads. So if anyone in the Bend, Oregon area happens to attend a party with a serious amount of cheese...

See the video below of the cheese heist.

Comments

[pat t]

08:05 AM on 07/26/2011

I bet they thought it was the goverment cheese line!

[CrankyGal]

09:36 PM on 06/13/2011

Considering the prices at Whole Foods, we're probably talking about 10 lbs of cheese, max.

[nopostergirl]

02:36 PM on 06/16/2011

As a former cheesemonger, those prices seem about right.

Let's assume the aged Gouda was one of the large size that weigh about 22 lbs. That'd be $13 and change per lb., which is not a bad price at all. Wheels of blue cheese are generally much smaller. Most of them run around 5-6 lbs. If two wheels went for $270, that'd be $27 a lb. at 5 lbs. per wheel, or $22.50 per lb. at 6 lbs. per wheel. That's a pricey item, but there were definitely things in that range even when I was a cheesemonger in the late 90s. And Roquefort, the king of blues, is even more expensive than that.

[O K Ali]

05:34 PM on 06/13/2011

When they get caught, they should be forced to eat the wheel. Hilarity ensues.

[Rendy Bee Mulyono]

03:22 AM on 06/12/2011

how cheesy

[KRTaylor]

12:05 PM on 06/10/2011

Hmmm...wonder if this is in any way related to those two women who stole dozens of deororants in Florida? What's next after the motherload of cheese heists? Guess we'll be reading that two women have stolen scores of laxatives.

[pat t]

07:58 AM on 07/26/2011

LMAO I was thinking the same thing! Doesn't cheese bind a person up?

[burrcycle]

10:35 AM on 06/10/2011

I think about doing that every time I see those... And I rarely eat cheese. Something about a giant block makes the inner mouse in me think "thats ridiculous, I need it."

[freefromharm]

09:55 AM on 06/10/2011

Compulsive behavior prompted by cheese addiction? Yes, cheese is addictive and contains morphine which scientists believe fortifies the bond between mother cow and calf. See http://freefromharm.org/food/health-nutrition/addicted-to-cheese-heres-why/.

[SteveDenver]

04:42 AM on 06/10/2011

They didn't mean to steal $600 worth of cheese, they thought the cubes were free samples and had two each.

[cameron d]

12:59 AM on 06/10/2011

They concealed them by stashing them in the NPR canvas tote bags.

[Aequus]

10:33 PM on 06/09/2011

What a dairying heist.

[BuckoForce]

02:39 PM on 06/09/2011

$600 what is that, like 5 pounds of "conventionally made" cheese at WF?

[GraphicMatt]

02:32 PM on 06/09/2011

Well that wasn't a very gouda idea.....ba dum bum!

[StopCensoringMe]

12:34 PM on 06/09/2011

These are far superior to the government cheese.

[naschkatze]

10:58 AM on 06/09/2011

Someone also stole a $150 bottle of Dom Perignon from the Bend Costco so it must have been one heck of a party.

[wm1]

10:40 AM on 06/09/2011

600$ of Whole Foods cheese; must have fit in her purse (;

[naschkatze]

10:59 AM on 06/09/2011

LOL

[pat t]

07:59 AM on 07/26/2011

How much was it a 1/2 pound?