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The case of the missing butter remains a mystery, but some have ideas on what’s behind the unusual crimes.

As shoplifting rises in grocery stores amid Canada’s cost-of-living crisis, police and a few industry experts say thieves have taken particular interest in the product.

Recent large-scale thefts of butter — worth thousands of dollars in total — have baffled police in two southwestern Ontario cities.

There have been nine notable thefts at grocery stores and chain retailers in Guelph, Ont., since December 2023, and last month, police in Brantford, Ont., said thieves made off with about $1,200 worth of butter from a local grocery store.

It’s not the first time bars of all-dairy edible gold have gone missing. In 2018, a B.C. RCMP detachment announced that $1,400 worth of the stuff had been lifted from …

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