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This surveillance image from Delaney & Loew Kitchenalia, 732 Massachusetts St., shows a man taking money out of the store's cash register about 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017.

A downtown Lawrence kitchen store is hoping clear surveillance video of a man swiping cash from its register in the middle of the afternoon will help catch the thief.

After seeing the video from Delaney and Loew Kitchenalia, 732 Massachusetts St., on social media or television news, owners of other retail stores in Atchison, Louisburg and Topeka have called Delaney and Loew saying they think the same man recently stole from their stores in the same fashion, or tried to, said Katie Moore, who owns Delaney and Loew with her husband, Brad Moore.

This surveillance image from Delaney & Loew Kitchenalia, 732 Massachusetts St., shows a man taking money out of the store's cash register about 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017.

This surveillance image from Delaney & Loew Kitchenalia, 732 Massachusetts St., shows a man who took money out of the store's cash register about 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017, store owners said.

About 2:15 p.m. Sunday at Delaney and Loew, a customer asked the clerk to get him a box, Katie Moore said. But while the clerk stepped away the man walked behind the counter, opened the register, pocketed all the bills but the $1 bills and left.

The clerk, doing mainly credit transactions, didn’t notice the money was gone until about an hour later, then called the Moores, who were volunteering cleaning up Allen Fieldhouse after the game, Katie Moore said. Once home, the Moores reviewed surveillance video, saw the man taking the money and called Lawrence police to file a report.

In all, the man took about $260, Moore said. She said she and her husband also told police about the other business owners’ calls.

“You hate for anybody else to go through this at this time of year; you have other things you want to be doing,” Moore said. “When people steal from a small business, we don’t have a massive corporation behind us.”

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Lawrence police Officer Derrick Smith said Tuesday that the case remained under investigation and that the suspect had not been identified. Smith said anyone with tips can call police dispatch at 832-7509.