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Larger group that entered the retailer around 8:00 p.m. on friday and made off with $400 worth of tools including bolt cutters and crow bars. this comes as stores across the country are seeing a dangerous spike in these kinds of crimes. nbc news correspondent miguel almaguer has the details. >> reporter: the chaotic and increasingly dangerous crime sprees are now unfolding in more cities. san francisco, los angeles, chicago, and minneapolis. on some of the busiest shopping days of the year, flash mobs with upwards of 80 people armed with hammers and crowbars are smark and grabbing their way th...

San francisco to the mass ransacking of a louis vuitton store outside chicago, law enforcement agencies are scrambling to respond to smash and grabs involving multiple suspects at a time. >> they're definitely looking at the targets. they're doing reconnaissance. they know when they're going to hit. this is organized at this point and police have a serious pattern here that they have to deal with. >> reporter: the targets have ranged from high-end stores from nordstrom to louis vuitton to an apple store in california, hits where tens of thousands of merchandise was taken. to a home depot near ...

Where the sheriff's department says up to ten people stole tools that thieves might use in robberies like these. hammers, sledge hammers, crow bars. four men were arrested in connection to that case. >> this is a trend that we have been seeing gradually increase, i would say, over the last year, year and a half. um, it, i would say, started mainly in the pharmaceutical and drugstore area, and has spread to department stores and luxury goods. >> reporter: tonight, a top concern among law enforcement analysts, that the thieves could become even more emboldened and violent. >> what if someone has...

Facing supply chains as we head into christmas. this comes in the middle of a string of smash and dash robberies across the country. there were more this weekend. as many as 10 people robbed at a home depot in california friday night making off with hammers, crow bars and other tools. at least 30 stole electronics from a best buy in minnesota on black friday. here's what a global retail consulting executive says. >> about 1/4 of consumers we've seen in the last week east to west, north to south, one out of every four concerned probably not going to the mall because of crime. 1/2 to your good p...

And it's also a path that i am choosing not to take at this moment. >> ever a poet, the ut tyler poll earlier this month showed mcconaughey tracking better than moat incumbent greg abbott and beto o'rourke. mcconaughey saying right now, he just wants to focus on the private sector. >> and the recent strings of smash-and-grabs continue over the weekend. >> reporter: this is what so many feared heading into this holiday weekend. another coordinated flash mob burglary, coming off the massive thefts that happened days earlier in the barrier, at stores like louis vuitton and nordstrom's, but that's...