A shop owner has been left shocked after a sneak-in thief snatched her handbag while she worked just feet away.
Mum-of-one Sam Johnstone was at work in Tuxford and said she was completely unaware of a man creeping in through the back door, before he made off with her Dubarry bag.
The bag - which contained her "whole world" including her keys to her shop, car and home, along with her purse and passport - was taken in the brazen raid on Blue Rose Bridal on Eldon Street on Tuesday, July 4 at around 2.15pm.
Sam, who co-owns the boutique with Donna Tong, said: "I got a text from Barclaycard saying one of my cards was being used in Retford Asda so I rushed into the back room to check my bag but it had gone.
"I thought &apos;oh my god, not my bag; it&apos;s got my whole world in it&apos;.
"I had to rush round to check my car was still there and luckily it was.
"It&apos;s scary to think he was in the back room while we were in the front - it&apos;s only separated by a curtain."
Once he had escaped undetected, it is claimed the thief attempted to go on a shopping spree with Sam&apos;s cards.
"Because he&apos;d used a card I hadn&apos;t used for a while, my bank got in touch. If he hadn&apos;t done that it would have been a lot longer before I knew what was going on.
"He was trying to use all my contactless cards which allow you to get £30 of goods at a time.
"Since I put an appeal on Facebook other shops say they stopped someone from doing the same to them."
Sam says the incident has made her and other workers on the quiet village street feel uneasy.
"It&apos;s a little bit shocking - he&apos;d managed to get in while we were here," she said.
"It looks like he&apos;s targeting women and it&apos;s mainly females working along this street.
"I think it&apos;s made all of us very wary."
Notts Police want to speak to the man in the CCTV image to help officers with the enquiry.
The police appeal to anyone who knows who he is or who may know anything about the crime to contact them, quoting incident number 525 of July 4, on 101.