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Thugs steal $26K from Whole Foods shopping cart

Cops are hunting for two men who robbed three Whole Foods workers at gunpoint.

So maybe the shopping cart full of cash was a bad idea.

One employee said the robbery may have been an inside job.

A trio of Whole Foods workers who were transporting up to $26,000 across the Lower East Side store in a grocery cart were held up at gunpoint, police sources said.

The workers — a manager, another employee and a security guard — were taking the money to a second floor office around 10 p.m., cops said.

When the elevator doors opened on the second floor, the two thieves – one armed with a gun — were already waiting and forced the workers to the ground before grabbing the money.

A source said that the two crooks then calmly walked out of the store toward Chrystie Street.

A store worker said that the robbery may have been an inside job, noting that a coworker saw the perps leave through the receiving door.

“They ran from the receiving door which no one outside the store knows about,” the worker said. “They know parts of the store that we only know.”

He also said that his co-worker claimed to see one of the men casing the store a few weeks ago wearing the same “dreadlocks and bad, fake beard.”

A spokesman for Whole Foods would only confirm that the supermarket was robbed at gunpoint.