woman usually takes ALL the baby components, undoubtedly a reseller

Dude, the USA becomes more of a shitshow as the days pass

Looks like Target shame on them if they are allowing this. Companies place limits on toilet paper so everyone get some but not baby formula?

Edit: changed to state “if they are allowing” as I don’t know their policy

One word….cunt

Me culture. Me me me

Gouging should be a crime.

Wet nurses are about to make a comeback

A trend that really ramped up since covid started. It really shows she peoples true colours.

She probably did the same with hand sanitizers during pandemic, dumb bitch

What’s next toilet paper?

Just walk over and take it out of her cart. It’s not “her” formula till she pays for it.

Follow her to checkout and ask the manager to not allow the sale.

Haven’t even thought people would try to scalp these like they’re new PlayStations. Makes me want to go on Marketplace and fuck with them

I think its funny that the only formula my baby ever drank were those purple bottles which are the only ones left.

This is what is being done with housing, and a lot of people think that’s perfectly OK.

I’d start taking them out of her cart

Used to work as a cashier where I would deny shit like that, greedy mf

I always waste scalpers and resellers time by setting appointments, dragging them along for as long as possible, and then I’ll tell them what I think of their character when they finally get wise.

Bunch of pretentious, selfish pricks who deserve to shit teeth.

We had a lady try this at my local WalMart with about 50 cans and people just started taking what they needed right out of her cart. She couldn’t even walk away with the cart and had to try to grab just 2 while everyone was cussing her out. That cart was empty again within minutes!

My local Walmart has them locked like the bullets for hunting

Honestly just reach into the cart and take the formula, she hasn’t paid for it so it’s not hers.

they’re called scalpers and they’re the fucking scum of the earth

People have shown their true colors during the pandemic. Though covid isn’t at an apocalyptic level, just imagine how bad people would be if it were. Everything we see in movies when it comes to the apocalypse and so iety will likely come true. We’d use to look at those things in movies and be like “Nah no way we would be like that”.. it took a pandemic to show us otherwise. So again I reiterate.. imagine if these were apocalyptic times. May whatever deity you may or may not believe in watch over us.

there is a very simple solution to this, and that is for the store to place a limit. Now, as a father to twins, some do have more need than others, to some extreme.

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When my babies were little there was a different “baby formula” issue going on. It had made the papers here in NY Tristate area, and laws were passed because of it. It was discovered that a couple of people were driving way upstate, or maybe just out of the State (possible Canada, but I don’t recall exactly where) with a large truck every week or so and filling it with baby formula, I believe powered formula. I mean like a large UHaul moving truck. The DEA, and I believe the FBI, thinking it was a drug ring, which used baby formula to cut its drugs, did a huge sting operation, thinking they were going to make a large bust. This would have been around 1995 or 1996. What they discovered instead was that a large group of parents here on Long island and surrounding areas had discovered that it was far far cheaper to pay for the truck, the gas, the manpower, and buy the formula from so far away, than to buy it locally.

When they discovered what was going on it caused an investigation as to why NYC Tristate formula prices were so Friggin high, and basically found it was because the formula companies were inflating the price so so so much more in these areas. They were fined, and a bill was passed which prevented these companies from inflating the price simply because they could.

For example, my daughter (twins were 1 boy, 1 girl) was colicky and required a formula that was a bit more $ than the regular type. Her formula alone would cost us >$500 per month. This was 1995 dollars (for comparison, I was paying $1100 a month to rent a very nice 3 BR 2 bath house with a full basement, a nice yard, a driveway that could fit 4 or 5 cars, and a garage, all in a very nice neighborhood). Add to that the formula for her brother, and diapers for both, and that was probably the roughest $ time for us ever. And, those formula costs were just to supplement two babies who were breastfeed as much as possible, by my working wife. I would guess that those prices added up to more than our monthly rent, and oil.

It has to be very rough now for parents of multiples. I wondered if a store that was limiting
a purchase to two cans would raise it to four if you could prove multiples. My wife and I were just talking about this last night and agreed that whenever we see formula in a store now, we will buy it and give it to any new parents we know. We would expect it to be limited by the store but if not, we would never even consider “cleaning off the shelf”. This came to a discussion due to a Male gay couple she work with who are close to having a newborn (surrogate). We are firm believers in breastfeeding, and I attribute my 3 children’s intelligence and school grades to them being breastfed, no ifs ands or buts, but that would be a very hard task for a male gay couple raising an infant.

We are in a far better $ position now, and would never consider asking for a penny over cost, and most likely, depending on what we know about the receiver, whomever that may be, would not even ask to be reimbursed if we felt it might be a hardship for someone.