{"id":195726,"date":"2025-10-07T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195726\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:33:07","slug":"bear-scampers-through-grocery-store-in-arizona-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195726\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear scampers through grocery store in Arizona \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bear made its way into a grocery store in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/tag\/arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Oro Valley, Arizona<\/a>, on Monday, scampering around the aisles as startled shoppers watched.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Alolkoy, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/tag\/animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">photographing wildlife<\/a> for decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvoa.com\/news\/bear-inside-oro-valley-frys\/article_bc745e7f-3038-4ba9-9c28-53d5c1e4c781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told KVOA<\/a> he has never encountered a bear before &#8211; and suddenly one was right in front of him in a grocery store. &#8220;Low and behold, I get the biggest wildlife I&#8217;ve seen up to this point,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The video shows the bear cub darting past aisles, not very interested in the products Fry&#8217;s grocery store had to offer. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The produce department has honey cones you can buy &#8211; and he just walked past it,&#8221; Alolkoy said.<\/p>\n<p>The bear left the store on its own and no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>While bear sightings in Arizona aren&#8217;t uncommon, seeing one in a store is very rare. <\/p>\n<p>Officials remind people not to leave food out for wildlife and caution against allowing animals, such as bears, to associate food with humans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear made its way into a grocery store in Oro Valley, Arizona, on Monday, scampering around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5585,49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-195726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}