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The bear eventually left the store’s doorway and climbed into an open dumpster outside, Jordan Traverso, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said in an email. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office then fired a nonlethal round to chase the bear from the dumpster early Saturday, she said.