Rotterdam N.Y. Police say they are searching for the woman caught on camera stealing a purse from a shopper at the Price Chopper Plaza on Altamont Avenue. Police provided surveillance video of the incident.

Police say a woman was loading her groceries into her car when another woman came up to her shopping cart and grabbed the customer’s purse. Police say the thief took off in a red SUV. As you can see in the video, the robber was waiting in the parking lot before the victim came out.

The suspect is described as a young female in her late teens or early twenties; about five feet and four inches tall with light colored hair.