Police are warning the Oakland Hills neighborhood about a rash of frightening robberies starting at the Redwood Road Safeway. It seems "at least half a dozen shoppers have been targeted leaving a grocery store, followed home, and robbed." And most of the have been elderly women.

ABC 7 reports:

Here's how the crime usually works: a man in the store parking lot pretends to talk on a cell phone, when he spots a victim, he gets into a white SUV and he and a driver follow the woman home.

In this usually quiet neighborhood, frequent shoppers say they had no idea.

The suspects, who drive a white SUV boasting "very distinctive racks on top of the vehicle," are not going into people's homes, "but they are getting away with their purses."

Full ABC 7 report below.