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.
It's nothing to do with cars. rubs hands gleefully 
Wow ! I've only just caught up with this thread and I am gobsmacked at how combative it is. Blimey gillybob if I were you I'd think twice before I put on what was a very generalised type of comment about something happening. It does seem to be the way that GN is progressing lately - either a comment is torn to shreds or it's attack, attack, attack !
For you gilly 
There is nothing racist about this thread. The 'Mrs Kia' thing isn't racist either.
I know what it means.
I was certainly behind the door when being hard-faced was invented ! I'd be last in any queue giving out something for nothing even. 
Mrs Kia?
Let me make a wild guess. gillybob had been on the car thread and got a little bit mixed up?
(Better brush up your teacher intelligence gagajo before term starts (cos you're sure as hell keeping it well hidden at the moment.
She can’t get it on a script as it is supposed to be fully available in the shops . Which it used to be “until the Chinese started buying it all up and sending it to China for profit” oh we have come full circle. 
Despite all the protests and arguments the fact remains as it was . The Chinese population of Newcastle are buying up the stocks of baby milk (and juice) to send back to China for a profit . End of . It’s really not about travelling to another town to try and get one is it ? 
Oh how helpful of you but she can’t change to cows milk ever SueDonim . I have mentioned before on GN that she has a lot of allergies ( as has my DD) .
Second thoughts I think you were actually being nasty and not helpful at all weren’t you ? 
still I have given you the benefit of the doubt with a reply .
Thank you lemon.
Sadly some people must think
on the lines of “if it doesn’t effect me, I don’t give a stuff” or worse ha ha ha serves you right for not breastfeeding .
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