Why are the stores allowing greedy moms to hoard buy the baby formulas?

[Baitball Blogger]

Watching Inside Edition of all things. One mom films another mom clean out the shelf and leave with a cart that is one layer filled with formula. Maybe twenty cans. The shelves were bare The first mom said why didn't she leave some for other mothers. And the answer was, "I need it for my baby."

Stores limited purchase amounts during Covid. What are the stores waiting for with the baby formula?

[secondwind]

1. I read today that stores were limiting to 5 cans per customer.

She may have had a surprise at the cashier station.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Reasonible. Wish we would have seen that.

[bobalew]

3. Because SOME people live in a WHITE PRIVILEGE Bubble....

Just like the Toilet paper hoarders, during the beginning of Covid. Just Can't stop being Greedy morons.... It's the ME FIRST, "I'm WHITE & Special" mentality.... I observe way too much of it these days, as if Donald Trump gave them permission to be abject jerks to everybody else..

[BlackSkimmer]

4. It's only white people that do this?

Seriously?

You should have visited my local Walmart during the early days of the pandemic lol.

[former9thward]

5. It is almost impossible to stop hoarding.

Even if a store has a rule and enforces it a person can just buy, put out in the car, and come back for more. Maybe a small store would notice but not a large one.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. At the beginning of the Pandemic it took several months for

stores to push back against hoarding of things like toilet paper.

I have adapted my buying habits, and I tend to do a certain amount of stocking up. Toilet paper. Once I open the twelve or sixteen roll package, I go to Target and buy another such package. Same with paper towels and tissue paper and several other things. If, at first, I cannot find what I'm needing, I have plenty of time to get it, because I'm buying ahead. In the past, I often waited until I'd put the last toilet tissue roll out before I bothered to buy more. No longer.

But baby formula is a vastly different kind of thing. Especially if you can't afford to purchase a bit of a surplus.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Buying a surplus may not be smart either, because a baby can develop allergies against

formula at any time.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Interesting point.

How much of a problem is that?

I had the good fortune to be able to breast feed my two sons. They never had any formula, ever. Heck, I should have been a wet nurse as I produced amazing amounts of milk. But that was decades ago, and I do very much understand that lots of women can't or don't nurse. Why isn't at all the important thing. That they need formula is.

But I will add that the condensed milk formulas really are an excellent solution. I'm a Boomer myself, and almost none of us were breast fed, but got the condensed milk formula. And we more or less turned out okay. Really, we did.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Sometimes you have to find out the hard way that your colicky baby is

lactose intolerant, for example.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Hmmmm.

I of course know about colicky babies, but never thought that being lactose intolerant might be a cause. I suspect that tracking down the cause of the colic can be rather tricky.

I will simply repeat that I am very grateful I was able to nurse both of my sons. Younger son was a bit colicky, not too bad. I had plenty of milk and a strong determination to nurse. Not everyone is the same. Which is in no small way why formula needs to be readily available.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. I had a child that was both colicky and lactose intolerant

We put the baby on soy milk, which was not ideal. I would have preferred something with more calcium.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Oh, gosh.

I am very fortunate that my two sons were very boringly normal. And that I was able to nurse, which clearly bypassed any kind of food intolerance.

[Mariana]

16. That really isn't an issue.

It's easy enough to return or resell unopened formula.

[ecstatic]

8. Wow this is crazy. nt

[roamer65]

11. Because too many of them think their little "miracle" is God incarnate.

It’s sickening how so many literally deify their children.

Not surprised one bit these moms are this selfish.

[GoCubsGo]

15. It's not just mothers, either.

Some people have been buying it in bulk, and reselling it at a profit to desperate parents.