- December 26, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Kori Giudici, her husband Jacob Wollner and their 11-year-old son Moses were just starting to open their Christmas presents Saturday morning when Portland police called with disturbing news.
The couple’s retail shop Flipside Hats was broken into overnight. It’s the second burglary to the retail business since it opened Nov. 1 on Southeast Stark Street in the city’s Montavilla neighborhood.
Giudici said her son was devastated because the call disrupted the very moment that his parents were opening the homemade pendants he had made for them.
The smashing of the front door glass can be heard on the store’s video surveillance footage, followed by a man bursting through, and immediately grabbing hat after hat and tossing them into a blue recycling bin he’s holding. The intruder apparently made two trips to clean out the store, Giudici said.
The couple estimated that about $35,000 worth of merchandise and at least 300 hats were stolen in the overnight…
