Eight stores in Mitcham, Balham, Wimbledon, Tooting and a residential property in Cheam were raided on April 9 while the police investigated reports of stores that bought items such as food and alcohol, which have been stolen, and were sold in Lower.
Police could recover around £ 150000 in stolen products after marking 5,000 items with synthetic DNA.
The officers marked the most commonly stolen items, such as alcohol and chocolates, with unique brands that can be traced to the original store.
Several own brand items were also found for private supermarkets for sale in stores, said the Metropolitan Police.
The age between 23 and 64, and three women, between 39 and 45, were arrested under suspicion of handling stolen goods.
Since then, they have been rescued waiting for new consultations.
Two other men, both 48 years old, were arrested under suspicion of handling stolen goods in a separate incident on April 17, were also rescued.
The searches were held in stores in Fernlea Road and Church Road in Mitcham, two London Road stores and a High Street store in Tooting, and also in Kingston Road and Christchurch Road in Wimbledon.
A store in Balham was also raided, along with a residential property in Sandy Lane, Cheam and a barber store in Tooting High Street.
Sergeant James Burke, of the MET neighborhood surveillance team in southwest London, said: “The theft of stores increases customer prices and the results that retail workers are abused verbal and physical.
“It also finances drug trade and contributes to antisocial behavior and violence.
“Local officers in my neighborhood team have spent months of hard work together with impacted companies to test new tactics to reduce the theft of stores in the area and have delivered impressive results here.”
The consultations are on Oning and anyone with information is asked to call the police at 101 and speak with the Basic Command of South West about the Zoridon operation.
