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Over $1 million in olive oil stolen from Montreal trucking company (www.ctvnews.ca)

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First it was egg thieves, now olive oil. What's next, bacon bandits?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's the police price. So that's the number of individual bottles multiplied by the average selling price of a single bottle. The real wholesale price is probably much much lower.

So you're not fencing a million worth, you're fencing a 10th of that maybe.