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Woman Robbed in Grocery Store Parking Lot

Woman Robbed in Grocery Store Parking Lot - Monday, November 24, 2008 at 5:15PM EST

BERWICK, COLUMBIA COUNTY- Berwick police are looking for a gunman who robbed a grocery store shopper. The holdup happened Monday morning around 11:00 in the Weis Market parking lot on Chestnut Street.

A 58-year-old woman says she was loading groceries into her car when a man pulled a handgun and demanded her purse.

He ran with it from the scene. The woman was shaken up but not hurt.