I saw it with my own eyes yesterday as DD and I were in Boots (Newcastle) looking for baby milk and baby juice. My Dd has told me in the past that she has struggled to find milk in town and that the shelves are often bare and she often has to try quite a few different shops before finding any.
Yesterday I questioned an assistant and she told me “oh don’t get me started, I could stock the shelves to the top right now (if we had any) and the Chinese would come in and buy it all. We have had to limit the milk to 10 boxes per person but they come in 6 and 8 at a time and take the maximum amount per person , meaning that people like your daughter cannot even get one box.....ditto the special baby juices”
Apparently they send it all back to China . There is a large Chinese population in Newcastle and this is becoming common place in most of the shops that stock baby products. I had to hear it with my own ears and see it to believe it ! 
Thankfully Evie is only having one bed time bottle a day now which is just as well. Not sure they can do about it ? Making the limits per person 2 or 3 instead of 10 might be a good start though.
What a fabulous teacher you must be too GagaJo 
Let’s hope you are successful anyway . 
Trisher my son has 14 packs of halloumi in his freezer. It's a seasonal item, only available in summer where he lives so he's stock-piled it for the coming months.
I'd ask him to send you some of his, except he's in America and the halloumi might be rather 'ripe' by the time it arrived at yours! 
She works shifts (damned hard) and doesn’t drive GAGa what part of that don’t you get ? And you say your a teacher 
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