{"id":3453,"date":"2025-10-02T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/bear-spotted-running-in-arizona-grocery-store\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:15:42","slug":"bear-spotted-running-in-arizona-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/bear-spotted-running-in-arizona-grocery-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear spotted running in Arizona grocery store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-02 13:15:40<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A young bear was spotted running  through the aisles of an Arizona grocery store.<BR><br \/>\nThe Oro Valley Police Department confirmed the grizzly beast&#8217;s presence in Fry\u2019s grocery store at around 6.30am on Monday (29.09.25) morning.<BR><br \/>\nWildlife photographer Charlie Alolkoy said he had just returned from an unsuccessful trip to Catalina State Park when he stopped at the shop.<BR><br \/>\nHe told KOLD-TV: \u201cI could hear some shouting, and someone said, \u2018Hey, there\u2019s a bear in the store,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, right, I wasn\u2019t buying it.\u2019 <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Low and behold I get the biggest wildlife I\u2019ve seen up to this point.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nCharlie filmed the bruin darting between displays before it fled the building and was later seen outside a nearby Starbucks coffee shop.<BR><br \/>\nBy the time police and Arizona Game and Fish officials arrived, the animal had disappeared.<BR><br \/>\nAuthorities stressed the bear was not acting aggressively and no one was injured. <BR><br \/>\nOfficials believe dry weather may be forcing bears into towns in search of food.<BR><br \/>\nMark Freiberg, of Arizona Game and Fish, told reporters: \u201cWhat that typically equates to is less food resources on the ground for wildlife and bears specifically.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-02 13:15:40 A young bear was spotted running through the aisles of an Arizona grocery store. The Oro Valley Police Department confirmed the grizzly beast&#8217;s presence in Fry\u2019s grocery store&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}