Detectives believe the woman was approached by the man who threatened her with a knife.
said the pair were not physically injured after they were approached by the offender at Stud Park Shopping Centre supermarket car park in Rowville about 6pm last Friday.
Police said the man sat in the back seat with her infant child, before forcing her to drive to electrical stores on the South Gippsland Highway, Cranbourne and Frankston Dandenong Road, Dandenong. Detectives said the man drove from the Dandenong store, while the victim was forced to remain in the back seat with her child.
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