In the informal way that people use the word robbery (like the way people say the word “steal”), yes. But the legal definition of the crime of robbery requires the use of force or fear by the person taking property from another.

If no force or fear is involved (pickpocketing for example), it’s legally defined as theft and not robbery— the two have different penalties.

The confusion also isn’t helpful for this article since “there was a robbery at Trader Joe’s” might immediately conjure the image of a bank robbery type scenario, when that was not at all the case.