Your thought process is that they pulled this thought out heist for drugs?  And you're smoking what exactly?  If this was a couple of strung out addicts they'd have already been caught by now. 

Secondly I'm saying that thefts have picked up all over the place not just extreme cases like this one I'm talking the regular mom & pop, the chain stores all have had to increase security contracts for theft protection. None more so than Carrs on Abbott and in south anchorage where losses were typically lower.  People are stealing more "food" than they were before.  The amount of losses in the grocery department has almost tripled and it became worth hiring loss prevention on a more full time basis.  That means it costs them less to outsource security than it does the hits they were taking to groceries.  

Usually it's been my experience that people who are hungry or those who care for hungry kids tend to steal food.  This goes back to the basic needs model the first are food & shelter.