By Peter Vincent For Daily Mail Australia
07:45 31 May 2023, updated 08:38 31 May 2023
- Shop assistant made to hand over cash at knifepoint
- Thief threatened Woolies worker, fled on pushbike
A Woolworths worker has been held up at knifepoint following a terrifying daylight robbery.
The female employee was ‘threatened’ and told to hand over cash by a man at the supermarket in Cartwright Avenue, Miller in Sydney’s south-west.
The armed robbery took place just after 7.30am on Wednesday morning.
The thief then fled the scene with the cash on a push-bike. On Wednesday evening he remains at large.
The woman was not injured in the robbery, police told Daily Mail Australia, adding that ‘no arrests’ had been made by Wednesday 5.15pm.
‘Just after 7.30am (Wednesday 31 May 2023), police were called to a supermarket on Cartwright Avenue, Miller, following reports of an armed robbery,’ a police statement read.
‘Officers attached to Liverpool City Police Area Command attended and were told a man had threatened an employee with a knife and demanded money, before stealing cash and leaving on a pushbike.’
Police are continuing to investigate the ‘circumstances surrounding the incident’.
The retail giant offered staff ‘counseling and support’ after the incident, it told Daily Mail Australia in a statement.
It added that the safety of its team members and customers was its ‘highest priority’.
Anyone with any information or dash cam footage is urged to contact police immediately.