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That Century City mall has been hit in different ways. Back when the Rolex stores used to carry actual stock, someone asked to see a Rolex and ran with two of them.
Rolex thief runs off w/ 2 watches from Century City shop
The 2012 Rolex theft was a robbery (he forced one of the Rolexes from the clerk's hand), but no guns involved. You'd think that the fact that the thieves have to pull into a parking lot where tickets have to be used to exit would deter them, and that they'd pick a mall with outdoor parking (and they do), but Century City remains a target.

There have also been armed robberies in this mall.
2 men armed with assault rifles rob Rolex store at Century City Mall

THESE GUYS ALLEGEDLY STOLE $6 MILLION WORTH OF ROLEXES AND OTHER WATCHES

And if you want to read a pretty vivid description of the 2015, armed robbery:
The Time Bandits of Southern California
On a quiet Monday around noon, two men dressed in black stepped onto an ascending escalator in the underground parking lot of an open-air mall in Century City in Los Angeles. By the time they had reached the top, they'd pulled on ski masks and they were sprinting.

“They're coming, they're coming!” yelled Damian Dupre, a security guard at a Gearys luxury-watch boutique, when he saw the men running toward the store. Dupre is a solid six feet three inches, but as he rushed to lock the front door, the men were already pushing their way in. The first intruder, a short, stocky man carrying a rifle, burst in and his gun went off, shattering a glass case. “Get on the ground!” he yelled, and the guard and three other Gearys employees dropped to the floor. “Hurry up!” the man shouted to his partner. “We got to go!”

Another flash mob smash and grab this weekend, although it was more of just a grab, no smash.

Smash-and-grab mob targets Nordstrom store in Canoga Park in brazen daytime raid

A smash-and-grab flash mob stormed into the Nordstrom store in Canoga Park on Saturday afternoon, grabbed merchandise and ran out.

An estimated 30 to 50 people participated in the brazen daytime robbery at the Westfield Topanga Shopping Center shortly after 4 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Police said the dozens of suspects included both males and females and said they used bear spray and left in sedans whose license plates had been removed. Police estimated losses to be between $60,000 and $100,000.

A similar incident took place Aug. 8 at an Yves Saint Laurent store at the Americana at Brand in Glendale when 30 to 40 people stormed the store, getting away in about 20 vehicles with about $300,000 worth of merchandise. The Glendale Police Department is investigating.

You have to wonder how little each one of these participants is being paid. Let's say 40 grabbers, they get say $80K retail in merchandise. They'll be lucky to dump it for fifty cents on the dollar, or say $40K. Then if each one is paid say $500. for the job, that's $20K, leaving a profit of $20K for the kingpin or kingpins. They can't be paying each one a grand, because that would eat up all the profit, so something more like $500. seems plausible. Who knows, maybe the ones with cars are getting a little more and the ones without getting even less, but the average can't be much above $500.

So these people are risking at minimum a felony organized retail theft charge, and grand theft, because it's not just simple shoplifting to pull something like this, and in some cases such as this (because of the use of bear spray), a full on robbery charge, for basically a bowl of cold porridge. But there seems to be no shortage of volunteers.